1st Edition

Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable

398 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage. Lack of planning can have severe social, cultural, economic and political repercussions in cities.  Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable  scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban Planning that keep at the forefront both the citizen and the environment, as essential assets of the... Read more

Introduction

Iva Ashish Srivastava and Ashish Kumar Srivastava

A.    Inclusive Cities

1.    Critical Perspectives on Urban Planning in India: From Colonial Legacies to Inclusive Futures

Paroj Banerjee

2.     Gendered Mediations of Urban life: The Politics of ‘Space’

Priyadarshini Bhattacharya

3.     Bridging Gaps: The Role of Access to Information on Women’s Livelihood Restoration After Resettlement in Chennai

Fatima Eltohami Ahmed Eltohami and Maartje van Eerd

4.     Urban Planning and Sale of Development Rights: Examining Policy Perspective on Equity in Ahmedabad’s Development Plan 2021

Rutool Sharma and Chandresh Patel

5.     Urban Housing: Nurturing Inclusivity and Livability for Sustainable Cities

Vidya Bhushan and Parker Hoffman

6.     Resilience among the children in street situations in slums in urban Chennai

Monisha Lakshminarayanan and Sudhanshu Joshi

 7.     Cities in an Ageing World: New Realities and New Responses

Rohit Prasad and Anupama Datta

B.    Liveable Cities

8.     Employment and Informality in Urban India: Trends and Policy Issues

Rajendra P. Mamgain

9.     Determinants of Safety for Responsible Adoption of Autonomous Driverless Vehicles in Urban Mobility

Somesh Sharma and Ashish Kumar Srivastava

10.  Smart Cities and Urbanisation

Akhilesh Srivastava

11.  The Role of Human Infrastructure in Developing Cycling in Car-Centric Environments: Lessons from Tehran

Mohammad Nazarpoor and Meredith Glaser

12.  Determinants and Benefits of Active Travel in Cities: A Perspective from Global North and South

Paritosh Singh Rana, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava, and Shailesh Bagauli

13.  Revolutionizing Energy Management Systems in Indian Cities

Radhika Jha

C.    Sustainable Cities

14.  Challenges in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Comprehensive Review

Subhrangsu Goswami

15.  Management of Municipal Solid Waste via Vermicomposting: An Eco-friendly Strategy to Foster Green Environment

Vaibhav Srivastava and Rajeev Pratap Singh

16.  How Social Science Approaches Contribute to Climate Adaptation – A Case Study in a Neighborhood of Oud-Mathenesse in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Qian Ke, Eudald Vicens i Roig, Vera Safronova, Luca Iuorio

17.  Sustainable as Smart: Reimagining a Mid-Sized City like Dehradun as a Ten-Minute City

Lokesh Ohri

18.  Urban Sustainability: Paving the Road to City Resilience

Varsha Mishra, and Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash

19.  Transforming India’s Urban Trilogy: Reimagining India's Urban Landscape Towards Economically Inclusive and Sustainable Urban India

Hitesh Vaidya

20.  Building Sustainable Futures: The UN's Whole-of-Local Government Approach to Infrastructure Asset Management in Developing Cities

Caroline Lombardo, Linda Newton, Luis Pineda, and Daniel Platz

Index

Biography

Ashish Kumar Srivastava is M.Sc. in Urban Management and Development from Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is member of Indian Administrative Service having experience of more than 13 years. He has worked in the area of city management and administration in different capacities. He is involved in promoting sustainable travel options in cities based on empirical evidences. He is recipient of many awards like National e-Governance Awards two times and Chief Minister Award of Excellence and Good Governance four times. He has also received Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarship.

Iva Ashish Srivastava is M.A. in Regional Development from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is an Indian Administrative Service Officer and working as Director Census Operations, Uttarakhand, Government of India. Her significant contribution is rejuvenation of Koshi river for which she received National Water Award and Chief Minister Award of Excellence and Good Governance. She has served in many capacities in the state of Uttarakhand including District Magistrate of Almora and Tehri Garhwal and Additional Secretary to the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.