Urban Development and Planning

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.

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.

List of Figures vii List of Tables ix About the Author xi Preface xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 Theories and Approaches to Urban Development and Planning 44 3 Urban Planning 71 4 Urban Management 108 5 Urban Governance 143 6 Municipal Finance 182 7 Urban Infrastructure and Waste Management 225 8 Urban Land Market, Housing, and Transport 267 9 Urban Poverty, Income Inequality, and Unemployment 295 10 Urban Education and Healthcare 336 11 Urban Heritage 368 12 Urban Water Bodies 390 13 Urban Open Space 410 14 Urban Informal Settlements and Slums 427 15 Urban Safety and Security 465 16 Sustainable Urbanization, Smart Cities, and Urban Future 500 17 Urban Development Initiatives and Programmes in India 542 Index 555