State of Urban Services in India's Cities
Author | : Kala Seetharam Sridhar |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Kala Seetharam Sridhar |
Publisher | : Public Affairs Centre |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780198065388 |
Using case studies from Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Bangalore,this book examines the causes of poor public service delivery in India scities with specific reference to finances and institutional factors.
Author | : Susan E. Chaplin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9788125042037 |
"The Politics of Sanitation in India examines how the environmental problems confronting Indian cities have arisen and subsequently forced millions of people to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation, and other basic urban services. This has occurred because of two factors. The first is the legacy of the colonial city characterised by inequitable access to sanitation services, a failure to manage urban growth and the proliferation of slums, and the inadequate funding of urban governments. The second is the nature of the post-colonial state, which, instead of being an instrument for socio-economic change, has been dominated by coalitions of interests accommodated by the use of public funds to provide private goods. The result is that the middle class has been able to monopolise what sanitation services the state has provided because the urban poor, despite their political participation, have not been able to exert sufficient pressure to force governments to effectively implement policies designed to improve their living conditions. The consequence is that public health and environmental policies have frequently become exercises in crisis intervention instead of being preventive measures which benefit the health and well-being of the whole urban population. These issues are explored by studying the history of colonial and post-independence urban development and management in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, and analysing why these cities have failed to provide equitable access to sanitation services for all residents."--Http://www.orientblackswan.com.
Author | : Kent Blansett |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806190493 |
From ancient metropolises like Pueblo Bonito and Tenochtitlán to the twenty-first century Oceti Sakowin encampment of NoDAPL water protectors, Native people have built and lived in cities—a fact little noted in either urban or Indigenous histories. By foregrounding Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, as agents and subjects of urbanization, the essays in this volume simultaneously highlight the impact of Indigenous people on urban places and the effects of urbanism on Indigenous people and politics. The authors—Native and non-Native, anthropologists and geographers as well as historians—use the term “Indian cities” to represent collective urban spaces established and regulated by a range of institutions, organizations, churches, and businesses. These urban institutions have strengthened tribal and intertribal identities, creating new forms of shared experience and giving rise to new practices of Indigeneity. Some of the essays in this volume explore Native participation in everyday economic activities, whether in the commerce of colonial Charleston or in the early development of New Orleans. Others show how Native Americans became entwined in the symbolism associated with Niagara Falls and Washington, D.C., with dramatically different consequences for Native and non-Native perspectives. Still others describe the roles local Indigenous community groups have played in building urban Native American communities, from Dallas to Winnipeg. All the contributions to this volume show how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces. Collectively they demonstrate that urban history and Indigenous history are incomplete without each other.
Author | : Kala Seetharam Sridhar |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2010-08-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199088160 |
With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also improving the quality of living. Given the primacy of public service delivery for cities to become engines of growth, this book answers two critical questions: Does low spending explain the state of poor public service delivery? How can urban local bodies have access to greater resources so as to enable them to improve public service delivery? Using case studies of four citie—Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Bangalore—the book examines urban services such as water supply, sewerage, sanitation, solid waste management, municipal roads, and street lighting. It compares the state of these services with international norms and suggests new ways in which they can be financed and improved. More specifically, the book examines the role of land as a revenue-generating source in India's cities.
Author | : Kala Seetharam Sridhar |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 9780198060840 |
This study examines the provision of infrastructure in India's urban areas by examining the costs of providing these services. It analyses the challenges in reform of service delivery in the context of developing countries.
Author | : Viswambhar Nath |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9788180694127 |
Author | : Kala Seetharam Sridhar |
Publisher | : Public Affairs Centre |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 8188816175 |
Author | : Kallidaikurichi Chidambarakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan |
Publisher | : Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Municipal services |
ISBN | : 9788170224808 |
Addresses delivered at three seminars organized by the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Author | : Jenia Mukherjee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2017-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811049327 |
This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi‐centric approach of only looking into the differences between the ‘developed’ and the ‘developing’ world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches. The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non‐official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city‐specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non‐linear, bottom‐up, multisectoral process‐based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of ‘sustainable urbanization’ and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions.