Vikram Seth's Arts: An Appraisal

This collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustainable urban development and best practices in terms of theory as well as praxes. Contributors have made an attempts to critically reconcile the hypothetical with the applied in order to arrive at innovative solutions for urban good governance in the context of the steady proliferation of habitats and conurbations all over the world.
About Author :
Dr. K.R. Gupta, the Editor of these Volumes is a well-known Economics. He has published about a dozen of books and more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching post-graduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises.
Contents :
Preface Urab Development Debates in the New Millenium: An Introduction Urban Development in Nepal: Reality and Paradozes ( A Case Study of Lalitpur Sub Metropolition City Land Administration and Agrarian Land Reform for Sustainable Urban Development and Poverty REduction: The Bangladesh Agenda Home Economics and Urban Governance: The Challenges of Globalism, Gigantism and Privatism The Contradictions in Enabling Privagte Developers of Affordable Housing: A Cautionary Case from Ahmedabad, India Urban Governance and the Environment: An Irish Case Study The Politics of urban Regeneration in Dublin Urban Development Debates: Challenges of Greening Urban Environment in Nigera Stochastic Energy Source Access Management in Urban Centres Policy Strategy and Affordable Hosuing for Dhaka City, Bangladesh: Need for a Change in View Enjoying Bandhs and Elephants at Rupees Two: A Story of Urban Poetics, and Essay in Pure Politics Development and River Water Resources Contributors