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 IndiaItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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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