Contents
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1 : The Concepts of Urbanization and the Developing Societies 1-41
Urbanization Patterns and Demographic Trends
The Economic Process
Analytical Assessment of the Situation
Chapter2: Policy and Strategies of Urban Development : An Indian Perspective 42-84
Growth of Urbanisation in India Growth Domestic Product and Urban
Development in India
Urban Development and the Political System in India
Indian Perspective of Urban Development Policy
An Overview of Five-Year Plans and Urban Development
Task Forces: A Departure from the Past.
National Commission on Urbanization (NCU). Urban Infrastructure.
Status of Urban Infrastructure
The Issues before Development Management.
Chapter 3: Guwahati: Progressive Marches Towards Urban Character 85-109
Chapter4 : Urban Development in Guwahati: A Multidimensional Syndrome 85-109
Physiographic Setting of Guwahati
Demographic Dimension
Socio-Cultural Dimension
Economic Dimension
Urban Structure : Land use pattern
Land use and its management
Chapter 5: Management of Urban Services 152-193
City Transportation
The nature of Urban Policy towards Services
The problem of Water Logging
Garbage Collection
Water Supply
Road System
Environment Management
Open Space in Guwahati City
Environmental Improvement of Slum areas in the City
Housing
Chapter 6: Government Action in Urban Development: The Structural network 194-232
General Pattern
Institutional network
Overall control: The Municipal Administration Department
The planning Agency : Town & Country Planning
Department
Master Plan and Development
The City Government : (The Guwahati Municipal Corporation)
The Legal Framework
Organizational Constraints
Inoperative Performances
Financial Constraints
Government and Finance
Augmentation of Resources
Mismanagement
Chapter 7 : The Legal Frame Work of Implementation of Planning and Development 233-265
Conflict of Overlapping Authorities
Lack of Coordination
Organizational Reality
The Functional Reality
Empirical Reality
The Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority
Political Patronage and the Authority
Comprehensive Urban Planning and Development
Financial Strait
Chapter 8 : Conclusion 266-284
Bibliography 285-297
Index 299-302