Sustainable urbanization in India : challenges and opportunities /: challenges and opportunities. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jenia Mukherjee, editor.
• Other Names: Mukherjee, Jenia
• Contents: ""Foreword""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Editor and Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Boxes""; ""1 Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing â#x80;#x98;Sustainabilityâ#x80;#x99; across Micro-political Settings""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Structure of the Book""; ""1.2.1 Setting the Context""; ""1.2.2 Governing Investments and Infrastructures""; ""1.2.3 Managing Wastes and Wetlands""; ""1.2.4 Exploring Urban Ecologies and Environmentalisms""; ""1.3 Towards a Sustainable, Just and Democratic Urban Transition"" ""3.4 Linking Urbanization to the Structure of the Economy""""3.5 Some Aspects of Urbanization in India""; ""3.6 Anatomy of a Well-Intended but Ill-Designed Intervention""; ""3.7 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""4 Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad""; ""4.1 Background""; ""4.1.1 Arguments Over Alternative Provision of Tenure Security""; ""4.2 Methodology and Data Collection""; ""4.3 Types of Land Tenure""; ""4.3.1 Pavement Dwellers""; ""4.3.2 Tenants""; ""4.3.3 Informal Owner in Squatter Settlements"" ""4.3.4 Squatter Owners on Public Land""""4.3.5 Squatter Owners on Private Land""; ""4.3.6 Informal Owners in Planned Settlements""; ""4.3.7 Certificate of Allotment in Resettlement Colony""; ""4.3.8 Legal Owner in Planned Settlement""; ""4.3.9 Ownership Rights in Newly Formed Rehabilitation Colony""; ""4.4 Implications of Security of Tenure on the Urban Poor in Informal Settlement""; ""4.4.1 Right Over Property""; ""4.4.2 Perception of Fear of Eviction""; ""4.4.3 Housing Improvement and Investment""; ""4.4.4 Basic Services"" ""4.5 The Implications of Legal Tenure on the Residents in the Formal Settlements""""4.6 A Preliminary Reflection on the Slum Rehabilitation Project""; ""4.7 Summary and Discussion""; ""4.8 Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""5 State, Governance and Urban Poor: Insights from Visakhapatnam City""; ""5.1 Background""; ""5.2 The State and Its People: An Overview""; ""5.3 The Indian State and Its Urban Agenda""; ""5.4 The Urban Journey of Visakhapatnam""; ""5.5 The City, People and Predicaments""; ""5.6 Furthering Discussions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""References""
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color), maps
• Subjects: 307.141609544; Urbanization -- India; Human settlements -- India; Infrastructure (Economics) -- India; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography; Human settlements; Infrastructure (Economics); Urbanization; India; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811049323; 9811049327
• Related ISBNs: 9789811049316; 9811049319
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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