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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 ...
The later half of the twentieth century has witnessed unprecedented urbanization throughout the world, especially in developing countries. Even through India currently has the second largest urban population in the world, it is still one of the least urbanized countries. Further, in the last fifty years, the process of urbanization in India has ushered in numerous changes unlike those witnessed during earlier periods, both in terms of degree and quality. hese ...
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 ...