Sustainable Urbanization in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Urbanization in India write by Jenia Mukherjee. This book was released on 2017-10-06. Sustainable Urbanization in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi‐centric approach of only looking into the differences between the ‘developed’ and the ‘developing’ world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches. The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non‐official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city‐specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non‐linear, bottom‐up, multisectoral process‐based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of ‘sustainable urbanization’ and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions.
Sustainable Smart Cities in India
Sustainable Smart Cities in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Smart Cities in India write by Poonam Sharma. This book was released on 2017-03-27. Sustainable Smart Cities in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India. Based on the exploration of an extensive array of multidisciplinary literature, this book discusses critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy, people and communities, economy, infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors are broadly covered under the integrative framework of the book to examine the vision and challenges of smart city initiatives. The book suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government professionals, students, research scholars and policy makers. A lot of work is happening on smart cities as it is an upcoming area of research and development. At international level, and even in India, the concept of smart cities concept is a hot topic at universities, research centers, ministries, transport departments, civic bodies, environment, energy and disaster organizations, town planners and policy makers. This book provides ideas and information to government officials, investors, experts and research students.
Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City
Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City write by Yamini Narayanan. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable urban policy. This book explores the historical and on-going influence of religion on urban planning, design, space utilisation, urban identities and communities. It argues that the conceptual and empirical approaches to planning sustainable cities in India need to be developed out of analytical concepts that define local sense of place and identity. Examining how Hindu religious heritage, beliefs and religiously influenced planning practices have impacted on sustainable urbanisation development in Jaipur and Indian cities in general, the book identifies the challenges and opportunities that ritualistic and belief resources pose for sustainability. It focuses on three key aspects: spatial segregation and ghettoisation; gender-inclusive urban development; and the nexus between religion, nature and urban development. This cutting-edge book is one of the first case studies linking Hindu religion, heritage, urban development, women and the environment in a way that responds to the realities of Indian cities. It opens up discussion on the nexus of religion and development, drawing out insightful policy implications for the sustainable urban planning of many cities in India and elsewhere in South Asia and the developing world.
Urban China
Urban China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban China write by World Bank. This book was released on 2014-07-29. Urban China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people’s health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China’s urban population projected to rise to about one billion – or close to 70 percent of the country’s population – by 2030, China’s leaders are seeking a more coordinated urbanization process. Urban China is a joint research report by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council which was established to address the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in China and to help China forge a new model of urbanization. The report takes as its point of departure the conviction that China's urbanization can become more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable. However, it stresses that achieving this vision will require strong support from both government and the markets for policy reforms in a number of area. The report proposes six main areas for reform: first, amending land management institutions to foster more efficient land use, denser cities, modernized agriculture, and more equitable wealth distribution; second, adjusting the hukou household registration system to increase labor mobility and provide urban migrant workers equal access to a common standard of public services; third, placing urban finances on a more sustainable footing while fostering financial discipline among local governments; fourth, improving urban planning to enhance connectivity and encourage scale and agglomeration economies; fifth, reducing environmental pressures through more efficient resource management; and sixth, improving governance at the local level.
A Sustainable Vision for Urban India
A Sustainable Vision for Urban India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sustainable Vision for Urban India write by Ashok Kumar Jain. This book was released on 2008-01-01. A Sustainable Vision for Urban India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After 61 years of the Independence, Indian Still has about one-fifth of its population, a mammoth 250 million, below the sustenance level or poverty line. It raises the question of the relevance the planning process. It is necessary to have a hard look at the ongoing perceptions, process, plans and programmes. The urban environmental challenges of Indian cities prompts a reconsideration of the values, goals, and means of achieving them. There is a need of abandoning the prevalent reactive tendencies of urban form which follows fiction, finance, fear, and fragmentation. There is an urgent need to evolve the concepts and innovations in shaping the urban integration, which seeks to evolve: " A new model for the contemporary city " design with nature " local Character with global forces " The professionals and the people of different cultures, incomes, ages, and abilities. In place of fast-paced economy oriented development mentality, it is necessary to adopt the beauty of simplicity, spiritually, sincerity, and sustainability together with learning from the inherent wisdom of nature and cities of the past, and infusing it with contemporary sensibilities. India, while moving towards urbanization is passing through a rare historic moment in aligning urban growth and development with political, economic, and social trends. What is required is to actively engage and draw inspiration from actual social and physical conditions with an ethics of care, respect, and honesty. A city is like a healthy organisms, always growing and evolving and self adjusting according to new needs that arise. Such a city should have the following characteristics: Networks not boundaries " Relationships and connections " Interdependence " Nature and social communities " Transparency " Permeability not walls " Catalysts, armatures and frameworks " Sustainability (rather than pollution abatement together with an effective decentralization, devolution and deregulation of planning process " A pro-poor, people-centered approach towards self-rule, self-reliance and self-build " Local, low-cost and simple solutions based on a comprehensive understanding of the issues and processes. As a tribute to India s 60 years of the Independence this book is dedicated towards the goal of sustainable urban India.
