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Developing countries the world over, more specially of Asia, have of late been experiencing urbanization as never before. Not only are coming up many new towns, but even the existing ones are expanding phenomenally – leading to an unprecedented burden on the already meager resources. Bringing together specialists, academics and researchers, the 11th Asian Urbanization Conference considered the diversely ranged challenges that the ongoing phenomenon of ...
This book describes Prof. Shah Manzoor Alam’s lifelong and path breaking contribution to Urban Studies and system of Settlements in India, also influencing the processes of urbanization of West, South and East Asian countries. It explains as to how the primate cities are parasitical, retard rural-urban integration, distort the settlement system and prevent the emergence of a lognormal distribution of settlements in India. Besides highlighting household ...
Development has been portrayed through the lens of various paradigms. The shift from the classical ‘environmental determinism’ paradigm to the neo-classical paradigm and then the Marxist paradigm has been quite conspicuous. The shifting emphasis has been on the utilization of land and labour so as to optimize the spatial returns in terms of development. Development has been varyingly depicted as ‘economic growth’, ...
