Urban Geography has been consistently growing as a systematic branch of reographical knowing. Its scope and subject matter has been broadened, its analytical focus has been realigned and its analytical tools have been refined. The book focuses upon multifaceted themes with regard to status, growth and concepts in urban geography, urban settlement pattern of urbanization in developing countries. The uniqueness of the book lies in managing contributions from schools from developing as well as developed counties. The contributions included in this book are indicative of some of the new perspective which urban geography has been studying for quite sometime now.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S B Singh
Professor S.B. Singh had a fine association spanning well one and a half decade with Archaeological Survey of India, gaining vast and varied experience in the field of Archaeology, Art and Epigraphy by extensive field work, particularly explorations and excavations in various parts of the country, Since 1973, he was associated with the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Kurukshetra University, teaching postgraduate students and guiding research to scholars, and subsequently retired as Professor from the same department in 1992 AD. As an erudite scholar, his publications include sixty Research papers in prestigious Indian and Foreign Journals like East and West, Arts of Asia, Lalit Kala, Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Roopa-Lekha, besides several others. He is also an author of The Archaeology of the Lucknow Region (1972) in collaboration. The other books include 'Letters of H.M. Lawrence (1978), Archaeology of PaÛchŒla Region (1979, U.G.C. Project), Epigraphy and Art (1996, I.C.H.R. Fellowship), Sculptural Art of Northern India, (2006, U.G.C. Project), in addition to a Hindi book - Lucknow - ‘Nawabon Se Pahle’ (2010) and other literary works in Hindi including a poetic composition ‘Pushpanjali.
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