Urban Growth Theories and Settlement Systems of India

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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 energy consumption, the papers highlight the policy issues regarding the demand and supply of energy in urban India and testify that geographers can contribute significantly to the understanding of the policy issues in planning and development of India.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Geeta Reddy Anant

Prof Geetha Reddy Anant (also Geeta Reddy Anant & J Geeta Reddy) is Director, Centre for Indian Ocean Studies Osmania University, Hyderabad having worked on issues of urban growth and life, informal economy, energy consumption and impacts etc. She is the author of Urbanisation and Primate City Growth in the Indian Ocean countries-1995, Planning and Regional Development-Towards Identification of Economic Potential-1996 as well as editor of Problems of Hunger and Food Security in the Indian Ocean Region-2000 and Multilayered Cities and Urban System-2009. She has also published over one hundred articles and research papers.