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. Municipal Administration in India: Retrospect and Prospect M.R. Biju 2. The Urban Poor Versus Housing Sources Carlos R. Hernndez-Velasco 3. Strategies for Reducing Vehicular Pollution: A Case for Emission-Based Vehicle Taxes Pragya Jaswal and Kaushik Deb 4. Urban Transport Solutions to Mitigate Emissions: Strategies for India Pragya Jaswal 5. Economic Development in the 21st Century Metropolis: The Transnational Growth Machine Andrew Kirby 6. The City, Globalisation and Social Transformation: A View from Liverpool Ronaldo Munck and Ruth Melville 7. Towards Apartheid? Policies of Segregation and Deprivation in Delhi Hans Schenk 8. The Fiscal Sociology of Decentralisation: The Impact of Decentralisation on Tax Capacity and Pro-Poor Policy Aaron Schneider 9. Need for Healthy Cities in Asia with a Focus on Iran: A Sociological Study Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi 10. Approaches to Urbanization in India: Theory, Policy and Challenges Kala Seetharam Sridhar 11. A Comparison of European and Asian ICT Clusters and Their Promotion Policies Meine Pieter van Dijk and Willem van Winden 12. State-Level Financial Institutions and the Development of Urban Infrastructure: Case Studies from Karnataka and Gujarat Meine Pieter van Dijk