"Regional perspective of industrial and urban growth / edited by P.B. Desai, I.M. Grossack [and] K.N.Sharma"

The dome presents the papers and proceedings of the Kanpur International Seminar held, under the joint auspices of the U.P. State Directorate of Industries, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the United States Agency for International Development, New Delhi, at the I.I.T. in Kanpur in early 1967. The focus of discussion by an assembly of eminent scholars from India, the United States and the United Kingdom was on the problems faced in the process of social and economic development at the regional level. To the incisive discussion of the theoretical issues involved in fiscal, physical and spatial planning of a co-ordinated programme of agricultural, industrial and urban deve lopment, pragmatism was imparted by an assessment of problems faced in a provisionally delineated region centering on the Kanpur metropolis. Kanpur region provided an illuminating illustration of the setting for the solution of the problems of correlating spatial and physical planning and of securing co-orated imple mentation of programmes for agricultural, industrial and urban growth.

The papers are grouped under three major areas viz. Regional economy. Spatial distribution pattern and Problems in formulation and implementation of regional planning. Topics included under the first area are Present pattern and perspective dimension of economic population and economic projections, prospects of industry, agriculture and second-delimitation of the transportation; under the region, nature and charac teristics of towns, prospects of urban growth, metropolitan development, integration of industrial and agrarian development, a model for planning of urban location, spatial distribution of urban population; and under the third constitutional and legal implications of planning for urban and industrial growth, administration of in dustrial programmes, finance of local governments, policy and machinery for regional planning and development.

Besides the papers, the volume presents the report of the proceedings of the Seminar, an illuminating address by the late Dr. Radha Kamal Muker, guidelines on substantive content and procedure of discussions at the Seminar by Professor Baljit Singh, Chairman of the Seminar, and an appraisal of the Seminar performance by Prof John P. Lewis, Minister-Director of USAID in India.