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Cities and public policy : An urban agenda for India

By: Mohanty, Prasanna K.
Publisher: New Delhi SAGE 2014Description: xvii, 333p. | Binding- Hard Bound | 22.6*14.5 cm.ISBN: 9788132117933.Subject(s): URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN (AR-UPD)DDC classification: 711.13 Summary: The twenty-first century will witness a rapid urban expansion in the developing world. India, it is believed, will be at the forefront of such a phenomenon. This book acknowledges the role of agglomeration externalities as the cornerstone of urban public policy in India. Arguing that hypotheses of over-urbanization and urban bias theory—which articulated a negative view of urbanization—are based on fragile theoretical as well as empirical foundations, this book calls for proactive public policy to harness planned urbanization as resource. India requires agglomeration-augmenting, congestion-mitigating, and resource-generating cities as engines of economic growth, including rural development. The book provides a large number of practical examples from India and abroad to enable policy-makers undertake reforms in urban and regional planning, financing, and governance to meet the challenges of urbanization in India. It combines theory and practice to draw lessons for an urban agenda for India and recognizes the central role of cities in catalysing growth and generating public finance for economic development. CONTENT: Preface Introduction Cities and Agglomeration Economies Fallacy of Over-urbanisation Spatial Planning, Transportation, and Land Use Right to the City: Making Urbanisation Inclusive Financing City Development and Services Using Urban Land as a Resource Institutional Framework for Good Urban Governance Cities and Public Policy: An Urban Agenda for India
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711.13 LYN Image of the city 711.13 MAH Asavi shahare aapuli chan 711.13 MEH Extreme urbanism 711.13 MOH Cities and public policy 711.13 MOS Ethics of the urban: The city and the spaces of the political 711.13 WIL/DON Lure of the city 711.14 SIN Urban theory

The twenty-first century will witness a rapid urban expansion in the developing world. India, it is believed, will be at the forefront of such a phenomenon. This book acknowledges the role of agglomeration externalities as the cornerstone of urban public policy in India.

Arguing that hypotheses of over-urbanization and urban bias theory—which articulated a negative view of urbanization—are based on fragile theoretical as well as empirical foundations, this book calls for proactive public policy to harness planned urbanization as resource. India requires agglomeration-augmenting, congestion-mitigating, and resource-generating cities as engines of economic growth, including rural development.
The book provides a large number of practical examples from India and abroad to enable policy-makers undertake reforms in urban and regional planning, financing, and governance to meet the challenges of urbanization in India. It combines theory and practice to draw lessons for an urban agenda for India and recognizes the central role of cities in catalysing growth and generating public finance for economic development.

CONTENT:
Preface

Introduction

Cities and Agglomeration Economies

Fallacy of Over-urbanisation

Spatial Planning, Transportation, and Land Use

Right to the City: Making Urbanisation Inclusive

Financing City Development and Services

Using Urban Land as a Resource

Institutional Framework for Good Urban Governance

Cities and Public Policy: An Urban Agenda for India

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