Perspectives in Urban Development : Issues in Infrastructure Planning and Governance

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. I. Urban Planning: 1. From Chaos to Coherence : Making Indian Cities More Livable through Better Planning/Vishal Jain. 2. FSI as a City Planning Instrument/Ramanath Jha. II. Urban JNNURM: 3. Towards the Next Generation JNNURM/Ravikant Joshi. III. Urban Water: 4. Urban Water Sector : Time for the Nuts and Bolts of Reforms/S. R. Ramanujam. IV. Urban Transport: 5. Mind the Gap : The Growing Chasm between Policies and Programmes in Urban Transport/Ashok Sreenivas. 6. Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd. : The Road Ahead /Jyoti Chandiramani and Ishita Ghosh. 7. The Need for a New Orientation to the National Urban Transport Policy for India/S. Sriraman. V. Urban Power: 8. Analysis of Power Situation in Pune and Suggestions for Sustainable Urban Electricity Development / Vinita Tatke and Rupali Ghate. 9. The Zero Load Shedding Model or How Civic Society Can Collectively Resolve their Own Issues/Pradeep Bhargava . 10. The Next Generation of Electricity Reforms : A Primer on the Role of Indian Energy Exchange (IEX)/Jayant Deo. VI. Urban Environment: 11. Future of Urban Built Environment : Building Green/Pallavi Tak Rai. VII. Urban Poverty: 12. Urban Poverty Alleviation : Policy and Programme Initiative/Poonam Mehta. VIII. Urban Governance: 13. Globalization and the Challenges of Good Urban Governance in India/Sukalpa Chakrabarti. Conclusions/Ramanath Jha . Subject Index. This book offers perspectives in innovations, practice-based analysis and research concerning the issues that plague the current dimensions of urban development in India. A collection of articles, essays, papers and case-studies, the book provides a platform for exchange of ideas among practitioners, academicians, and policy-makers, including activists and NGOs at national and local levels where the contributors bring out viewpoints from a wide range of professional experiences and cultural backgrounds. By challenging traditional methods and practices, the volume seeks to stimulate thoughts about novel approaches to solving urban issues, especially through the participation of all stakeholders and not just the government.…