Quotidian Urban Challenges

India, like other Asian countries, is urbanizing quite rapidly. And, both persisting and emerging urban problems are acquiring unprecedented form and dimensions. The available academic works are generally over-burdened with theoretical issues and in many cases with abstraction. This book therefore seeks to bring together studies on some contemporary everyday-quotidian-urban problems an average Indian urban dweller confronts, like (ever-increasing) crowding, housing (shortage), garbage (mishandling), (increasing) pollution, (deteriorating) health and above all the need for effective and efficient governance. It is quite a worthwhile systematic treatment to such issues in a single volume that specifically provides a peep into all of them together. Contents Foreword Professor (Dr.) V.C. Jha, Director National Atlas Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), Kolkata 1. Nature of emerging quotidian urban Ravi S. Singh 2. 21st century Asian Bharat Dahiya 3. Urban growth, sprawl and their Ravi S. Singh and Satyendra N. Singh 4. Slums and urban environmental challenges in Arun K. Singh 5. High-rise buildings in metropolitan Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan and Jayarati Dasgupta 6. Environment and sustainability in the Third World Srabani Sanyal 7. Industrialization and quality of Piyal Basu Roy and Keshab Mondol 8. Management of solid waste in Indian Abha Lakshmi Singh and Salahuddin Mohd. Khan 9. Solid waste management in Varanasi Shweta Yadav and Ram Bilas 10. Health situation in an urban Amrita Dwivedi and V. K. Kumra 11. Risk zone assessment of an environmental health G.V. Narasimha Rao, B.V. Shiva Kumar and B. Hema Malini.