Urban Growth Theories and Settlement Systems of India

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TextPublication details: Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd. 2011 New DelhiDescription: 329pISBN:

9788180697395

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Human settlements - India

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309.15487 URB

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Part I. Theories of urban growth:
1. Ibn Khaldun’s concept of the origin, growth and decay of cities.
2. Masulipatam -- a metropolitan port in the seventeenth century.
3. The concept of the Islamic city and the planning of Islamabad.
4. The growth of Hyderabad city: a historical perspective.
5. Indian cities and western theories of urban growth--an empirical appraisal.

Part II. Settlement systems of India:
6. Metropolitan Hyderabad : its pattern of regional influence and delimitation of its planning areas.
7. Regional planning: functioning and nodal.
8. Metropolitan dominance atrophies rural-urban integration.
9. Distortions in settlement systems of India.
10. The national settlement system of India.

Part III. Urban India: household energy consumption - policy issues:
11. Urban household energy use in India: efficiency and policy implications.
12. Fuelwood use in the cities of the developing world: two case studies from India.
13. Fuelwood as a source of domestic energy in urban India: the case of Metropolitan Hyderabad and Raipur.
Part IV. Other topical themes:
14. Geopolitical importance of the Indian Ocean.
15. Changing geography.
16. The historic Deccan - a geographical appraisal

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