Overview
- Fills a research gap in urban studies by providing insight into small town governance
- Critically discusses a major governmental reform process, decentralisation, which has been launched worldwide
- Provides original and unique data collected directly from the ground reality of small towns
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia (EUCS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Municipal management in small towns
- Muslim majority towns
- Poverty and economic development in small towns
- Restructuring of functional authority
- Small towns in India
- Technical utilities in small towns
- Urban decentralisation laws in India
- Urban decentralization reforms
- Uttar Pradesh
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated and poorest states in India.
Although considered home to one of the oldest urban civilisations, India remains one of the least urbanised regions in the world. At the same time, the country has many million-strong metropolises that are among the world’s largest megacities, as well as a multitude of small and medium-sized towns and cities. This paradoxical urbanisation, against a backdrop of reforms, has interested the scientific community to gain a more nuanced understanding of the changes and challenges involved. This book analyses an urban environment often overlooked by researchers and public authorities, namely, that of small towns. These towns are of vital importance as this is where the bulk of future urban development will take place. However, decades after implementation of the reforms, the majority of reviews and assessments have focused on large cities and so the impacts of the reform on small towns are still poorly understood. This book includes extensive primary data about political, technical and financial municipal issues in small towns of northern India and, is therefore, of interest to students, researchers and planners working on urban and regional studies in the global South.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rémi de Bercegol, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has a doctorate in Urban Planning from LATTS (research group on technology, territories and societies) at ENPC/UMLV, Paris Est, France. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) in New Delhi between 2008 and 2012. During this time, he undertook research for his book on small towns and decentralisation reforms in northern India. Beyond the scope of India, his research focuses now on world urbanisation and the transformation of cities in the global South, analysed principally in terms of their essential services (water, sanitation, waste management and energy).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Small Towns and Decentralisation in India
Book Subtitle: Urban Local Bodies in the Making
Authors: Rémi de Bercegol
Series Title: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2764-9
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature India Private Limited 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2762-5Published: 13 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2764-9Published: 29 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2367-0045
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0053
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 253
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Development Economics