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Book Metropolitan City Governance in India

Download or read book Metropolitan City Governance in India written by Marina Pinto and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books evaluates city management in the four metropolitan cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Calcutta. The author sets out the main theories and views on local government, including the democracy versus efficiency debate. She studies the concept of "new localism" in the context of liberalism, globalisation and privatisation. She studies institutional designs in America and Britain in relation to India, after which each of the four metropolises are profiled separatly. She compares the nature and degree of their urbanisation and the structure and functionning of their municipal corporations. She discusses the role of the mayor/commissioner, state-local relations and interactions with other unifunctional agencies, development authorities and non-governmental irganisations. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).

Book Metropolitan Governance

Download or read book Metropolitan Governance written by Vinita Yadav and published by Copal Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolitan Governance is an indispensable book for understanding the governance of metropolitan cities. The book covers an insight into the governance in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. The participatory metropolitan governance is also of interest to the students of sociology, social work and geography. The students of public administration would find it useful to study the decentralisation of powers from centre to state to local level government. For academicians engaged in service delivery in metropolitan areas, it brings in clarity regarding role of varied stakeholders in governance.

Book New Forms of Urban Governance in India

Download or read book New Forms of Urban Governance in India written by I S A Baud and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles looks at the impact of decentralization on local governance and citizen participation in urban democracy processes in India, from different perspectives, providing examples from major cities throughout the country. The book examines how local governments work together with other actors in governing their localities in Indian mega-cities; especially what new forms of governance are emerging as a result of globalization and internal transformation processes. It analyzes whether new forms of governance open up opportunities for more participatory urban governance, improved service delivery with positive implications for poor groups in India's cities and whether these processes are inclusive for all residents in mega-cities, or exclude particular groups.

Book Urban Governance In India

Download or read book Urban Governance In India written by C. Nagaraja Rao and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of efficient urban governance needs no elaboration in an increasingly urbanising world. Cities with high population densities throw significant challenges of transportation, safety, urban revitalisation, social inclusion and cohesion, environmental protection, water, air, energy, sanitation and climate changes which will magnify in the near future if not properly addressed now. These socio-economic changes necessitate augmentation of urban finances for investment in well-planned urban development and to bring about reforms in governance to enforce efficient urban governance at all levels to cater to the needs of urbanites and to make cities inclusive, congestion-free, safe, resilient and sustainable in which all people have access to basic services, housing and mobility. The urban local governance structures, mechanism and arrangements should aim at facilitating the adoption and implementation of successful policies to meet the challenges of sustainable, safe and equitable urbanisation. This book discusses measures to stimulate revitalisation and foster better economic and social development through developing cooperation mechanism between local and national governments so that the challenges of urbanisation can be best utilised as opportunities of innovation, economic growth and employment.

Book Urban Governance and Management

Download or read book Urban Governance and Management written by P. S. N. Rao and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book India  the Challenge of Urban Governance

Download or read book India the Challenge of Urban Governance written by Om Prakash Mathur and published by National Institute of Public Finance & Policy. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities Transformed

Download or read book Cities Transformed written by Mark R. Montgomery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.

Book Governing the Urban in China and India

Download or read book Governing the Urban in China and India written by Xuefei Ren and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is urban about urban China and India? -- Land grabs and protests from Wukan to Singur -- Urban redevelopment in Guangzhou and Mumbai -- Airpocalypse in Beijing and Delhi -- Territorial and associational politics in historical perspective.

Book Reshaping City Governance

Download or read book Reshaping City Governance written by Nirmala Rao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained by gathering urban crisis. This book addresses some key issues of governance and management for India’s principal urban areas of Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. As three of the greatest Indian cities, they have evolved in recent decades into large metropolitan regions with complex, overlapping and often haphazard governance arrangements. All three cities exemplify the challenges of urbanisation and serve here as case studies to explore the five dimensions of urban governance in terms of devolution, planning, structures of delivery, urban leadership and civic participation. London, with its recent establishment of a directly elected Mayor, provides a reference point for this analysis, and signifies the extent to which urban leadership has moved to the top of the urban governance agenda. In arguing the case for reform of metropolitan governance, the book demonstrates that it would be too simplistic to imagine that London’s institutional structure can be readily transposed on to the very different political and cultural fabric of India’s urban life. Confronting India’s urban crisis with a comparative analysis that identifies the limits of policy transfer, the book will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of Politics, Governance, and Urban studies.

Book Urbanization  Urban Development  and Metropolitan Cities in India

Download or read book Urbanization Urban Development and Metropolitan Cities in India written by Viswambhar Nath and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Infrastructure and Governance

Download or read book Urban Infrastructure and Governance written by G Ramesh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains a selection of papers on urban governance in its multiple perspectives. It has evolved from the presentations made at the Third International Conference on Public Policy and Management held in 2008.The topics are grouped into several themes: Urban Plan and Governance, Urban Governance through Partnership and Participation, and Financing Urban Infrastructure. With several examples from developing nations, the book dwells into the practical and managerial aspects of urban planning, partnerships, participation, financial mobilization and effective governance. One of the highlights of the book is that it looks at financial mobilization as a strategy for governance and how the financial system in itself can be an instrument of governance.

Book Governing India s Metropolises

Download or read book Governing India s Metropolises written by Joël Ruet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues.

Book Local Government in India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pradeep Sachdeva
  • Publisher : Pearson Education India
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 8131799239
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Local Government in India written by Pradeep Sachdeva and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local Government in India provides an insight into the system of urban local governance in India and traces its evolution since independence. Urban governments are the organs for promoting grass root democracy and providing not only civic services for the welfare of the local people but also for carrying out the task of urban development and planning. This book tries to analyze their role and existence in the face of rapid urbanization, population growth and industrialization.

Book Urban Local Self Government In India

Download or read book Urban Local Self Government In India written by Ram Narayan Prasad and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arvind Kumar Sharma, b. 1941, scholar of public administration.

Book Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

Download or read book Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries written by Roy W. Bahl and published by Lincoln Inst of Land Policy. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in cities. Catchphrases such as “metropolitan areas are the engines that pull the national economy” turn out to be fairly accurate. But the same advantages of metropolitan areas that draw investment also draw migrants who need jobs and housing, lead to demands for better infrastructure and social services, and result in increased congestion, environmental harm, and social problems. The challenges for metropolitan public finance are to capture a share of the economic growth to adequately finance new and growing expenditures and to organize governance so that services can be delivered in a cost-effective way, giving the local population a voice in fiscal decision making. At the same time, care must be taken to avoid overregulation and overtaxation, which will hamper the now quite mobile economic engine of private investment and entrepreneurial initiative. Metropolitan planning has become a reality in most large urban areas, even though the planning agencies are often ineffective in moving things forward and in linking their plans with the fiscal and financial realities of metropolitan government. A growing number of success stories in metropolitan finance and management, together with accumulated experience and proper efforts and support, could be extended to a broader array of forward-looking programs to address the growing public service needs of metropolitan-area populations. Nevertheless, sweeping metropolitan-area fiscal reforms have been few and far between; the urban policy reform agenda is still a long one; and there is a reasonable prospect that closing the gaps between what we know how to do and what is actually being done will continue to be difficult and slow. This book identifies the most important issues in metropolitan governance and finance in developing countries, describes the practice, explores the gap between practice and what theory suggests should be done, and lays out the reform paths that might be considered. Part of the solution will rest in rethinking expenditure assignments and instruments of finance. The “right” approach also will depend on the flexibility of political leaders to relinquish some control in order to find a better solution to the metropolitan finance problem.

Book Metropolitan City Governance in India

Download or read book Metropolitan City Governance in India written by Marina Pinto and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on research through questionnaires, field trips and interviews, Marina Pinto voices concern about the existing modes of civic management and argues strongly for a participatory model that would reflect the empowerment of the people without sacrificing the need for professionalism in the prompt and efficient delivery of services. This study of city management will be of interest to students and professionals in the fields of urban studies, local government, urban/civic management, public administration, political science, and policy/planning, as also to government and non-government development agencies."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Governance of Megacities

Download or read book Governance of Megacities written by Kallidaikurichi Chidambarakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the evolution of urban and metropolitan governance in India and examines the key aspects related to urban dynamics, including urban and regional planning, economic competitiveness, infrastructure and land management, environmental sustainability, as well as the challenges in resource mobilisation and metropolitan governance.