Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium (Hardcover)  | Released: 2004

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 nonprofit professionals so that 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: 1. New Actors in the Field of Urban Regeneration: The Development of Area-based Initiatives and Multi-Sectoral Partnerships Rob AtkinsoN 2. Local Government: Why the Current Structures Work? George B. Cuff 3. Women Will Rebuild Miami: A Case Study of Feminist Response to Disaster Elaine Enarson and Betty Hearn Morrow 4. Women and Housing Issues in Two US Disasters: Case Studies from Hurricane Andrew and the Red River Valley Flood Elaine Enarson 5. Poverty, HIV, and Barriers to Education: Street Childrens Experiences in Tanzania Ruth Evans 6. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Urban Centres: An Approach for Betterment Sunil Kumar and S.A. Gaikwad 7. Inclusion by Institutional Designs? Rethinking Agency, Livelihoods and Institutions in Urban Community Participation Wong Kwok-fu 8. Economic Reforms and Urbanization in India: Problems and Prospects Bhabani Shankar Nayak 9. Community Building and Social Reform: A Bottom-Up Breakthrough in Urban China Yuan Ren 10. Close Rural-Urban Interactions in India: Evidences from Burdwan and Its Surrounding Region in West Bengal Gopa Samanta and kuntala lahiri-dutt 11. Sustainable Development for the Poor Maya Shah and Sidney Clouston 12. Development of Rajshahi City: How to Improve City Environment Through Participation? M.N. Zuberi and M.I. Zuberi