The urban poor : slum and pavement dwellers in the major cities of India

By:

Singh, Andrea Menefee

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Manohar Pub.; 1980Description: 142 pSubject(s):

Poor

DDC classification:

307.76 And.

Summary: The problems of Indian cities cannot be understood, much less solved, without a systematic presentation of empirical data and evaluative analysis. This is the first book to integrate published and unpublished data in a systematic perspective on slum and pavement dwellers in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Madras and other important urban centres. The major social indicators highlighted in this book-population, migration, housing, social organisation, health and nutrition, education, employment and income-focus specifically on their implications for policy and programme design for the urban poor who are overwhelmingly in the informal urban sector. This book will be invaluable as an introduction to the critical problems of urban development because it presents an integrated data-based profile of the urban poor in the major cities of India.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Donated Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	307.76 And. (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DD914

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The problems of Indian cities cannot be understood, much less solved, without a systematic presentation of empirical data and evaluative analysis. This is the first book to integrate published and unpublished data in a systematic perspective on slum and pavement dwellers in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Madras and other important urban centres.

The major social indicators highlighted in this book-population, migration, housing, social organisation, health and nutrition, education, employment and income-focus specifically on their implications for policy and programme design for the urban poor who are overwhelmingly in the informal urban sector.

This book will be invaluable as an introduction to the critical problems of urban development because it presents an integrated data-based profile of the urban poor in the major cities of India.

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