Urban Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Strategies for Sustainable Cities - Hardcover

Ranvinder Singh Sandhu ; Jasmeet Sandhu ; Balwinder Arora

9788189640859: Urban Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Strategies for Sustainable Cities

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ISBN 10: 8189640852 ISBN 13: 9788189640859

Publisher: Bookwell Publications, 2009

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Urbanization got an impetus during 1980s and 1990s due to advances in transportation and telecommunication and further momentum was provided by globalization. During this period many Asian Countries experienced both economic boom and population increase. UN HABITAT (2006) pointed out that Asia and Africa will host largest urban population in 21st century and cities will continue to be sites of extreme inequality. It is feared that Asian cities may not be able to cope with the ongoing urbanization and urbanization of poverty further adds to the challenges. This edited volume addresses to the challenges thrown by urban poverty for sustainable cities in developing countries and also presents some strategies adopted in these countries to deal with these challenges. The volume contains seventeen articles which are divided into three sections. Section-1, entitled 'Urban Poverty in Developing Countries: Some Issues', contains five articles dealing with urban poverty and delineates certain issues related to it. Section-II, entitled 'Urban Poverty in India: Empirical Reality', contains five articles which present the empirical situation of urban poverty in India. Section-III, entitled 'Urban poverty and Strategies for Sustainable Cities', anthologizes seven articles dealing with some strategies to grapple with the problem of urban poverty in developing countries and the outcome of these efforts. All these efforts to achieve sustainable cities are not producing desired results. Cities cannot be sustainable if rural areas, neighborhoods and communities are not sustainable. So focus must shift to these settlements as well.

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About the Author

Ranvinder Singh Sandhu is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of UGC Special Assistance Programme at Guru Nanak dev University Amritsar.. He has been Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UGC Visiting Fellow to the Netherlands (1998), Overseas Fellow of Human Science Research Council of South Africa (1995), Visiting Professor in Minnesota State University, Minnesota, USA (1991-92) and Head of the Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University (1989-91). He has eight books to his credit from ifferent publishers such as Sage, Zed Books and Rawat etc. and has also published many research papers in reputed journals in India and abroad. At present, he is also consultant to Municipal Corporation Amritsar in a project funded by Japan Bank of International Cooperation. His main areas of interest are Urban Studies, Urban Planning and Sociology of Development. Jasmeet Sandhu is Professor of Sociology at Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. She has been the Head of Sociology Department and Editor of Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology. She has published three books and several research papers in India and abroad. Her areas of interest are Population Issues, Sociology of Family and Marriage and Sustainable Development. Balwinder Arora is Professor of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar. She has been Head of Sociology Department and Editor of Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology. She has a modicum of quality of research work to her credit. Her areas of interest are Participatory Management, Gender Studies, Industrial Sociology and Social Stratification and Social Mobility.

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