Sustainable urban development / edited by R.B. Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Preface.
I. Concepts;
1. Environmental and infrastructural sustainability major challenges facing Indian metropolitan cities/R.C. Gupta.
2. Urban issues and an agenda for the next century/A.K. Jain.
3. From downstream to upstream technology/Sukehiro Gotoh.
4. Integrating policies for combating climate change a case study of Japanese inter ministerial coordination for the Kyoto protocol/Takashi Hattori.
5. Atmospheric environment in urban ecosystems/J.M. Giovannoni.
6. Urban development and environmental impacts in a mountain context/James S. Gardner and R.B. Singh.
7. Urban housing a study of Privatisation policy/H.R. Suri. II. Indian case studies;
8. Urbanisation in India a demographic reappraisal/R.B. Bhagat.
9. Integral vision of metro systems in Indian mega cities/Udit Ratna.
10. Technologies for sustainable urban development a study of the national capital region/S. Mohan.
11. Urban land transformations in relation to distance a case study/Shahab Fazal.
12. Environmental impact assessment of tanneries in Dindigul town Tamil Nadu/N.D. Mani.
13. Infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh India an exploration into development and distribution/Ravi S. Singh.
14. Pachmarhi the Trekker's paradise/Govind Prasad and Bhojraj Singh.
15. Floods in Delhi a geomorphological and geological perspective in an urbanised landscape/H.S. Saini S.A.I. Mujtaba and A.K. Gupta.
16. Slums environment and development in metropolitan cities of India/R.B. Singh and D.K. Mishra.
17. Groundwater issues for sustainable water supply in Delhi area/P.S. Datta.
18. Brick kiln industry as drivers of land use change and related land degradation in rural urban fringe of Delhi/R.B. Singh and Jag Mohan.
19. Size of the household in India a rural urban perspective/Randhir Singh Sangwan and Sneh Sangwan.
20. Social dimensions of urban fringe analysis of living conditions of urban poor with special reference to basic amenities/Anoop Kumar and H.M. Kothari.
21. Delhi a healthy city it is a distant and wishful dream/H.R. Suri.
22. Changing population structure of Jhajjar town a geographical analysis/S. Hasan Ansari. III. Asian case studies.
23. Supply and demand of compost in rural Japan a case of Tokyo metropolitan region/Hiromichi Nagashima.
24. Vulnerability and institutions the role of towns for rural livelihood security in Nepal/Martin Raithelhuber.
25. Urban development a challenge for frontier regions Sri Lanka experience/H.P. Susiripala.
26. Indus towns and Huanghe towns the origin of the grid pattern town plan/Jiro Yonekura.
Index.

Contributed articles chiefly with reference to India.