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This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in
post-independence India. It explores how the nature and orientation
of city planning have evolved in India’s changing sociopolitical
context over the past hundred or so years. The book situates
India’s experience within a historical framework in order to
illustrate continuities and disjunctions between the pre- and
post-independent Indian laws, policies, and programs for city
planning and development. It focuses on the development, scope, and
significance of professional planning work in the midst of rapid
economic transition, migration, social disparity, and environmental
degradation. The volume also highlights the need for inclusive
planning processes that can provide clean air, water, and community
spaces to large, diverse, and fast growing communities. Detailed
and insightful, this volume will be of interest to researchers and
students of public administration, civil engineering, architecture,
geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for
policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and
country planning.
This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in
post-independence India. It explores how the nature and orientation
of city planning have evolved in India's changing sociopolitical
context over the past hundred or so years. The book situates
India's experience within a historical framework in order to
illustrate continuities and disjunctions between the pre- and
post-independent Indian laws, policies, and programs for city
planning and development. It focuses on the development, scope, and
significance of professional planning work in the midst of rapid
economic transition, migration, social disparity, and environmental
degradation. The volume also highlights the need for inclusive
planning processes that can provide clean air, water, and community
spaces to large, diverse, and fast growing communities. Detailed
and insightful, this volume will be of interest to researchers and
students of public administration, civil engineering, architecture,
geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for
policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and
country planning.
Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town
while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking
the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in
independent India's planning practice and literature-from the
national level policies to on-the-ground applications in the city
of Jaipur-Vidyarthi explains how a host of actors including
neighborhood residents, squatters, politicians and developers made
different kinds of plans that assimilated the design concept in
line with their practical concerns and cultural preferences
creating unique variants of neighborhood urbanism over time. One
Idea, Many Plans counters misguided characterization of these
unforeseen efforts as 'unauthorized' by state authorities. It shows
how the frequently informal and tacit plans were neither arbitrary
actions nor aimless subversions but purposeful future-oriented
efforts that shaped the envisaged sociality and spatiality of
Indian cities in more meaningful ways than the official master
plans promoting planned neighborhoods. Carefully illustrating the
different kinds of plans local actors use to guide incremental
adaptation, improvement and investment, Vidyarthi offers insights
about how we might improve formal plan making. Scholars, students
and professional practitioners interested in different regions of
the global south would find these lessons useful as a new
generation of city design ideas like sustainability and new
urbanism gain traction in an increasingly globalized World.
Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town
while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking
the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in
independent India's planning practice and literature-from the
national level policies to on-the-ground applications in the city
of Jaipur-Vidyarthi explains how a host of actors including
neighborhood residents, squatters, politicians and developers made
different kinds of plans that assimilated the design concept in
line with their practical concerns and cultural preferences
creating unique variants of neighborhood urbanism over time. One
Idea, Many Plans counters misguided characterization of these
unforeseen efforts as 'unauthorized' by state authorities. It shows
how the frequently informal and tacit plans were neither arbitrary
actions nor aimless subversions but purposeful future-oriented
efforts that shaped the envisaged sociality and spatiality of
Indian cities in more meaningful ways than the official master
plans promoting planned neighborhoods. Carefully illustrating the
different kinds of plans local actors use to guide incremental
adaptation, improvement and investment, Vidyarthi offers insights
about how we might improve formal plan making. Scholars, students
and professional practitioners interested in different regions of
the global south would find these lessons useful as a new
generation of city design ideas like sustainability and new
urbanism gain traction in an increasingly globalized World.
A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents,
neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure
of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and
public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at
all stages must work at an intersection of public policy, markets,
and aesthetics--while also accounting for how a project will work
in both the present and the future. The latest volume in the Urban
Agenda series looks at pressing infrastructure issues discussed at
the 2017 UIC Urban Forum. Topics include: competing notions of the
infrastructure ideal; what previous large infrastructure programs
can teach the Trump Administration; how infrastructure influences
city design; the architecture of the cities of tomorrow; who
benefits from infrastructure improvements; and evaluations of
projects like the Chicago Riverwalk and grassroots efforts to
reclaim neighborhood parks from gangs. Contributors: Philip Ashton,
Beverly S. Bunch, Bill Burton, Charles Hoch, Sean Lally, and
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents,
neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure
of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and
public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at
all stages must work at an intersection of public policy, markets,
and aesthetics--while also accounting for how a project will work
in both the present and the future. The latest volume in the Urban
Agenda series looks at pressing infrastructure issues discussed at
the 2017 UIC Urban Forum. Topics include: competing notions of the
infrastructure ideal; what previous large infrastructure programs
can teach the Trump Administration; how infrastructure influences
city design; the architecture of the cities of tomorrow; who
benefits from infrastructure improvements; and evaluations of
projects like the Chicago Riverwalk and grassroots efforts to
reclaim neighborhood parks from gangs. Contributors: Philip Ashton,
Beverly S. Bunch, Bill Burton, Charles Hoch, Sean Lally, and
Sanjeev Vidyarthi
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