Urban Development and Planning: An Introduction - Softcover

Pattanaik, Bikram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032891092 ISBN 13: 9781032891095

Publisher: Routledge India, 2025

Synopsis

This book details the most contemporary concerns related to urban development, governance, and planning, as well as the challenges to urban administration. It analyses the policies and programmes adopted by both high-income and lower-middle-income countries to achieve sustainable urbanization and their application and treatment to help students get a holistic, practical perspective of the issues at hand.

This volume elucidates urban development theories and approaches, coupled with urban planning, local government finance, urban management, and urban governance. It also discusses urban issues and challenges such as education, health, waste management, land use planning, housing, and transport. Critical concerns related to urban water bodies, open spaces, urban heritage and smart cities, and urban future are similarly addressed.

This book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers of urban planning and architecture, urban sociology, economics, geography, environmental science, and public administration. It shall also be useful to NGOs, parastatal bodies, and trainers of urban planning and development. Planners, policymakers, functionaries, and elected representatives of urban local bodies may also use this book as a capacity-building instrument.

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About the Author

Bikram Keshari Pattanaik is a professor and was a director for two terms at the School of Extension and Development Studies at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032891092
• ISBN 13: 9781032891095
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588