Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium (Hardcover)  | Released: 2005

This collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustainable urban development and best practices in terms of theory as well as praxes. Contributors have made an attempt to critically reconcile the hypothetical with the applied in order to arrive at innovative solutions for urban good governance in the context of the steady proliferation of habitats and conurbations all over the world. Their papers more often than not transcend regional specifics to address the common agenda of urban development debates as informed by assorted modernization perspectives in the 21st Century. This Volume brings together social scientists, development consultants and non-profit professionals so that the multipositional theories and multicultural praxes might be reflected in their papers based on empirical research and field-level insights. It is expected that this Volume will provoke fresh debates and new ideas that will facilitate theory-building as well as formulation of paradigms for good practices and sustainable urban applications. The book would be found highly useful by town planners, municipal administrators, NGOs working in the field of urban development, and common readers interested in urban problems and policies. It will be equally valuable for policy makers as well as students, researchers and teachers of urban economics, urban sociology, urban geography and public administration.Table of Contents: Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium: An Introduction –Prasenjit Maiti 1. Urban Development in Nepal: Reality and Paradoxes (A Case Study of Lalitpur Sub- Metropolitan City) –Raghu Bir Bista 2. Land Administration and Agrarian Land Reform for Sustainable Urban Development and Poverty Reduction: The Bangladesh Agenda –Md. Shariful Alam Chowdhury 3. Home Economics and Urban Governance: The Challenges of Globalism, Gigantism and Privatism –Andrew Kirby 4. The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing: A Cautionary Case from Ahmedabad, India –Vinit Mukhija 5. Urban Governance and the Environment: An Irish Case Study –Michael Murray and G. Honor Fagan 6. The Politics of Urban Regeneration in Dublin –Diane Payne and Peter Stafford 7. Urban Development Debates: Challenges of Greening Urban Environment in Nigeria –Labode POPOOLA 8. Stochastic Energy Source Access Management in Urban Centers –Kai Strunz and Kia Lashgari 9. Policy Strategy and Affordable Housing for Dhaka City, Bangladesh: Need for a Change in View –Sabera Sultana and Md. Shariful Alam Chowdhury 10. Enjoying Bandhs and Elephants at Rupees Two: A Story of Urban Poetics, an Essay in Pure Politics –ARNAB CHATTERJEE and SURBHI TIWARI 11. Development and River Water Resources –Adebayo J. Adeloye