系列：走向可持续的未来
这本书批判性地分析了发展中国家城市的现状，特别是印度的规划和基础设施网络。它概述了城市提供的机会的性质；城市未来将面临的重大挑战；并制定了超越当代城市发展和城市化质量挑战的方式方法。它讨论了一些关键主题，如密度建筑、土地使用区向开发区的转变、铁路基础设施的发展、快速公交的规划和设计指南，以及城市水资源规划和普遍获得住房，以创造一个有利的环境，为发展中世界的城市创造一个更美好的未来。
这本书综合了治理、规划和设计方面的见解，突出了空间整合的含义。它将印度城市化中的当前问题、用于建设智能城市和高层建筑的智能技术，以及城市和区域治理结合起来，探索考虑人类需求的可持续发展规划形式。
这本书既易于阅读，又具有主题性，对城市研究、城市和城市规划、发展研究、社会学、公共政策和行政、政治社会学、人类学、建筑学、地理学和经济学的学者和研究人员，以及专业人士、规划者、决策者和非政府组织都很有用。
Future of Cities: Planning, Infrastructure, and Development
Series: Towards Sustainable Futures
This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways and means to transcend the challenges of contemporary urban growth and quality of urbanisation. It discusses key themes such as architecture of density, transformation of land-use zones to development zones, development of railway infrastructure, planning and design guidelines for bus rapid transit, and urban water planning and universal access to housing to create an enabling environment for deliberations and a better future for cities in the developing world.
The book integrates insights from governance, planning, and design and highlights implications of spatial integration. It brings together current issues in Indian urbanisation, smart technologies used in building smart cities and high-rises, and urban and regional governance to explore forms of sustainable development planning that factor human needs.
Accessible and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies, urban and city planning, development studies, sociology, public policy and administration, political sociology, anthropology, architecture, geography, and economics, as well as to professionals, planners, policymakers, and non-governmental organisations.
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