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• towards a pro poor framework for slum upgrading in Mumbai
  4 November 2005

  Sundar Burra Environment&Urbanization Vol 17 No 1 April 2005 This paper examines the institutional framework and financial mechanisms for “slum” upgrading in Mumbai, including the use of Transferable Development Rights (TDR), and assesses their strengths and limitations. Although recent innovations through the Slum Redevelopment Authority did not produce the hoped-for scale of slum improvements, it showed more effective possibilities for the future. The paper discusses the historical (...)

• TENTH PLAN APPROACH ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT
  31 October 2005

  Report of the Steering Committee on Urban Development, Urban Housing and
  Urban Poverty for the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007)
  India has one of the largest urban systems, but its effectiveness is considered as far from
  satisfactory due to paucity of funds and ineffective management. The major urban concern
  is the growing gap between the demand and supply of basic infrastructure services like safe
  drinking water, sanitation, sewerage, housing, energy, transport, communication, health
  and (...)

• NGOs and Urban Planning in India: The Case of Pune’s Development Plan
  28 October 2005

  Pankaja Kulabkar
  Newspapers in India occasionally indicate the role played by local NGOs in
  implementation of urban plans of various cities in India. Pune is one such city where
  NGOs have been found to be active in this sphere. Yet their role in plan implementation
  has not been adequately explored. This is not surprising given the fact that there are very
  few studies on implementation of urban plans in India as a whole. The present study
  seeks to fill in this gap by examining the (...)

• INTERVIEWS WITH SLUM DWELLERS, Pune
  28 October 2005

  Meera Bapat and Indu Agarwal
  Environment&Urbanization Vol 15 No 2 October 2003
  This paper presents extracts from interviews with slum dwellers,
  primarily women, in Mumbai and Pune, and discusses the conditions they cope
  with every day with regard to water and sanitation, and the ways these conditions
  have changed over time. These women live in a variety of circumstances - on pavements,
  beside railway tracks, in swampy areas, on steep slopes - and this affects the
  particular problems (...)

• mapping Pune and Sangli slums on a GIS
  28 October 2005

  Pratima Joshi, Srinanda Sen and Jane Hobson
  Environment&Urbanization Vol 14 No 2 October 2002
  This paper describes how the NGO Shelter Associates and an
  organization of women and men slum dwellers worked together to collect information
  on each household in slum settlements in Pune and Sangli and to map this,
  along with infrastructure and service provision and each slum’s position within
  the city. This permitted data on slums to be superimposed on these cities’ development
  plans using a (...)

• Urban sprawl assessment Entropy approach, Pune
  28 October 2005

  Sulochana Shekhar
  Lecturer in geography
  National Defence Academy, india
  The Remote Sensing data, GIS combined with Shannon’s entropy has proved to be efficient in monitoring and measuring the urban sprawl of Pune, a developing city in the Indian state of Maharashtra
  The monitoring of urban development is mainly to find out the type, the amount and location of land conversion for future planning. Although various studies have been dedicated to measure and monitor the growth and sprawl of (...)

• The Pune Slum Census
  28 October 2005

  Srinanda Sen and Jane Hobson
  Shelter Associates, Pune India
  Shelter Associates (SA ) is a small Pune-based NGO, headed by Pratima Joshi and Srinanda Sen who are architects and planners. Shelter Associates works in partnership with Baandhani, an organisation of collectives of women and men slum dwellers, to facilitate and support community housing and infrastructure projects. It works on the philosophy that poor people are the best people to find solutions to their housing problems, (...)

• ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS REPORT-2001-02 Pune
  28 October 2005

  PUNE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
  2002
  Consistency is key to a successful implementation of any program. The Pune Municipal Corporation, takes pride in submitting the seventh successive Environmental Status Report for the year 2001-02, pursuant to the legal provisions. Significantly, the report is exclusively prepared in-house and covers extensive details of various promotional projects undertaken by the PMC. Recommendations on regulatory framework are also made to prevent environmental (...)

• The economic impact of land and urban planning regulations in India
  26 October 2005

  by Alain Bertaud
  April 2002 Government intervention - in the form of regulations, infrastructure investments and taxation - has a direct impact on urban land supply and on the demand for land, and therefore on the price of land and housing. De facto, some regulations have the effect of allocating land administratively, ignoring demand and costs and bypassing market mechanism in allocating resources. Land regulations are necessary to the well functioning of markets but when poorly (...)

• A REVIEW OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING REGULATIONS IN SELECTED ASIAN CITIES
  26 October 2005

  UNCHS 1992
  The federal republic of India is an Union of 32 states(25). 7 of these states (including Delhi - the federal capital) are called Union Territories, for receiving special assistance from the Centre - unlike the other 25 States which are required to generate sufficient funds on their own. Currently there is a move to convert Delhi into a State. India has the seventh largest land cover in the world (about 3.28 million sq. kms), but the second highest population (846 million in (...)

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