A New Book Explores Urbanisation in India and Its Different Facets
8 months, 1 week ago

A New Book Explores Urbanisation in India and Its Different Facets

The Quint  

The book, Changing Paradigms of Urbanisation: India and Beyond, is a collection of papers on urbanisation and its different facets authored by Om Prakash Mathur over the years 1983-2023. These years have witnessed worldwide and in India, extraordinarily important shifts in the way urbanisation has unfolded itself, in the way it has come to be understood and perceived, and in the way public policy responses have evolved to address the opportunities and challenges that urbanisation has led to. The world’s urban population has risen from 1.5 billion in 1975 to 4.6 billion in 2023 and that of the less developed region from 816 million to 3.6 billion over the same years, at annual rates ranging between 1.3 percent and 5.8 percent. These links have been explicitly acknowledged and widely applied in measuring the economic importance of cities and urbanisation where the question is not whether cities are productive but how productive cities are.

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