Small Towns and Decentralisation in India : Urban Local Bodies in the Making

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 civ...

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Main Author: de Bercegol, Rémi. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia,
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Urban geography.
Development economics.
Human geography.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9788132227649
Physical Description: XXIV, 253 p. 61 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.

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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding the changing urban space in India -- Chapter 2. From theory to practice: Field research in four small municipalities in eastern Uttar Pradesh -- Chapter 3. From local to regional challenges: The political profile of the small towns' municipal councils -- Chapter 4. Between urban imbalances and technical constraints: The challenges of managing local public services -- Chapter 5. From dependence to artificial autonomy: Low financial resources of small municipalities -- Chapter 6. Building the town of tomorrow: The difficult development of small municipalities. 
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