Urban Development : A New Perspective

Contents: Preface. 1. A history of the city in Monsoon Asia. 2. The post- urban period in Northwestern India. 3. Urbanization trends and urban policy issues. 4. Urban structure under dependent development. 5. Regional centres: an analysis of commodity flow pattern. 6. Spatial pattern of population growth. 7. Development controls and implementing machinery. 8. The urban environment. 9. Urbanization in India: pattern and emerging policy issues. 10. Urbanization: modernization and women's political participation. 11. Urban demographic profile. 12. Slum: the nature and the extent of the problem in India. 13. Urban poor and social ferment: a case study of Kolkata region. 14. A new perspective in the regional disparities in development: the Indian view. 15. Urbanization in 2001 A.D: a sociological perspective. Index. "Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's formulation was deficient because only the European medieval city and its burgher culture were taken as typical of the "true" city. Max Weber in The City (1921) provided another definition of the city, similar to Pirenne's, when he contrasted "Occidental" with "Oriental" urbanism. According to Weber, five attributes define an urban community: it must possess (1) a fortification, (2) a market, (3) a law code and court system of its own, (4) an association of urban citizenry creating a sense of municipal corporateness, and (5) sufficient political autonomy for urban citizens to 296 pp.…