Overview
- Addresses contemporary urbanization patterns and processes in Indian cities in the context of UN 'sustainable urbanization' policies and Indian 'smart city' agenda
- Captures major components of urban sustainability and unsustainability in India
- Underlines the significance of micro-researches within macro contexts in urban studies in India
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia (EUCS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Governing Investments and Infrastructures
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Managing Wastes and Wetlands
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Exploring Ecologies and Environmentalisms
Keywords
- urbanization
- sustainability
- sustainable urbanization
- smart cities
- urban waste management
- urban environmentalism
- United Nations policies on sustainable urbanization
- urban infrastructure in India
- UN Sustainable City Programme
- limits to equitable urbanization
- urbanization in fringe areas
- urbanization without infrastructure
- urban ecologies
About this book
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 acrossdifferent 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Urbanization in India
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Jenia Mukherjee
Series Title: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4932-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4931-6Published: 17 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5270-6Published: 11 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4932-3Published: 06 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2367-0045
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0053
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Economics