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The volume brings together diverse perspectives on urban governance to present a comprehensive mapping of the urban issue. Contributors to the volume deal with the challenges of urbanisation and urban development in the context of governance. They discuss how unprecedented urbanisation and urban growth have eroded the quality of life with specific reference to India. They study urban development in the Himalayan region of India, disappearing open spaces in the ...
Sustainability of human settlements has become a matter of global concern. Accordingly, in the two international, conferences (habitat I in 1976 and habitat II in 1996), the issues and problems being faced by the world community were duly underlined for consideration of various governments, professionals, researchers and other partners. Despite various efforts made so far, desired respite to human settlements could not be made available and this fact is more ...
Towards the end of the 20th century city reemerged as a unit of analysis and globalization as an important context for analyzing social transformation and dynamics shaping the society. A city is the site where micro and macro social processes and global and local contexts can be articulated and observed. Urbanologists and social scientists have so far focused on those cities, which have been greatly benefited by globalization. A lot of literature has come about ...