Product Description: "Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission" probes the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) right from its inception to its present day avatar. Commencing with a historical background of JNNURM, the book traces the evolution of public policy in India on urban growth...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the tardy and uneven implementation of the 73rd and the 74th Constitutional Amendments in the Indian states, this comprehensive study analyzes the origins, the points of jurisprudence, and the settled law—common to both the panchayats, or political assemblies, and the municipalities—pertaining to issues such as elections, delimitation, reservation, planning, and functional domain...read more

Product Description: This work is one of the most comprehensive analyses of the extent, as well as the socio-economic and spatial characteristics, of urbanization in Indian. It assesses the nature of the policies and programs required for urban governance and the development and management of urban areas...read more

Product Description: This book evolved from the Asian Development Bank and World Bank's joint pioneering seminar held in 1981 by professionals involved in the management of sixteen South and East Asian cities. Part One discusses the needs for adaptable network structures rather than hierarchical structures, stronger financial resources and administrative capacities at the municipal level, and integration and development activities with the establishment of cyclical procedures for analysis, planning, and implementation...read more