The Rationale for Reviewing Current Concepts of Urban Planning and Developing New Ones in India

Abstract Urban planning in India is heir to a colonial paradigm that imposed practices developed from the experiences of Western urbanisation to the local Indian context. This paper suggests that this paradigm exacerbates the complex problems of contemporary urbanisation, but there is little attempt...

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Main Author: A. G. Krishna Menon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Built Heritage
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/BF03545673