City, Society and Planning : Essays in Honour of Professor A.K. Dutt/Baleshwar Thakur, George Pomeroy, Chris Cusack and Sudhir K. Thakur. New Delhi, Concept Pub., 2007, 3 Vols., 1672 p., tables, figs., photos, (set). ISBN 81-8069-458-5.

    Contents: Vol. I. City: Foreword by Prof. R.P. Misra. Preface. Academic profile of Professor Ashok K. Dutt. Contributors. I. Conceptual and general basis of urbanization: 1. The future of our cities/Nandeshwar Sharma. 2. Urban planning during the globalization/Victor R. Savage and Pow Choon-Piew. 3. Community pride: using consensus to create a true community design/Samuel Thompson. 4. Urban environmental quality of life and resident perception in an American city/Debnath Mookherjee, Thomas J. Simon and Kenneth Strickler. 5. Problems of non-industrial pollution in urban India/A.K. Chakravarti. II. National urban context: 6. Urban network and economic growth in Vietnam/Le Khanh. 7. Evolution of urban system in China/Yichun Xie and Xinyue Ye. 8. Spatial development for an integrated rural-urban city system in Korea/Nakhun Song. 9. City size and urban population growth in India: emerging scenario after 2001 Census/R.B. Bhagat. 10. Economic sustainability of urban agriculture in Shahdara Block, Delhi: a micro level study/Noor Mohammad and Swati Rajput. III. Regional urbanization: 11. Urbanization in the regions of Africa/Christian Tettey. 12. A century of urbanization in Himachal Pradesh/Surya Kant. 13. Growth of urban fringes of urban centres in Upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab: a study of the impact on their rural countryside/S.C. Bansal. 14. Urbanization in Rajasthan at the dawn of the 21 century/Raj Bala. 15. Urbanization process in Kerala: search for an explanation/Srikumar Chattopadhyay and C. Sakunthala. 16. Hierarchy and spatial distribution pattern of urban centres in Rajasthan/H.S. Sharma and R.N. Mishra. 17. Ethnic tourism and evolution of commercial landscape in Holmes County, Ohio, USA/Allen G. Noble and Brian Coffey. IV. Urban facilities and problems: 18. Problems and development of Calcutta Metropolitan Area: an overview of the Mega-city Projects/Uma Sankar Malik. 19. Garbage disposal and its management in Belgaum City/A.S. Rayamane, Ashok D. Hanjagi and Priya Srihari. 20. Water pollution in Saharanpur City/S.C. Bansal and R.P. Singh. 21. Domestic water supply in Hazaribag Town/Rameshwar Thakur. V. City case studies: 22. Urban land use planning in Delhi/Lalita Rana. 23. Hyderabad: a city of contrasts/Kalpana Markandey. 24. Informal commercial sector in Urban Residential Areas Consumers' Perception/Ranjana A. Gera. 25. The cityscape of Mumbai: continuity and change/K. Sita. 26. Land use and land cover of Vishakhapatanam city using Remote Sensing and G.I.S Techniques/B. Hema Malini, G. Narasimha Rao and K. Nageswara Rao. 27. Regional ecology and urban growth of Darbhanga and its region/K.K.L. Das. 28. Intra-village and inter-village differences in response to urbanization in the rural-urban fringe of Delhi/B.S. Dahiya and B. Thakur. 29. Locational analysis of elite colonies in Delhi/B. Thakur and Avinash Kaur Sagu. 30. Monitoring land use change in Saharanpur City/S.C. Bansal, A.P. Subudhi and B. Thakur. 31. The changing nature of Bhopal fringe/Monika Vij. 32. Farmhouses and land: a study of Peri Urban space of Delhi/S.P. Kaushik. Index. 

    Vol. II. Society: Foreword by Prof. Allen G. Noble. Preface. Academic profile of Professor Ashok K. Dutt. Contributors. I. Conceptual Basis: 1. Conceptual and substantive contributions of Professor Ashok K. Dutt to medical geography/Vandana Wadhwa. 2. Process of globalization, social milieu and multiple trajectories in the creation of a Technopoles/Yehua Dennis Wei. 3. Building a better ordinance: an evaluation tool for historic preservation efforts/Lauren Pond and George Pomeroy. 4. Relocating space and society in Rural Haryana/K.D. Sharma. 5. Cultural planning and regional development in Nunavut/Christopher Cusack and Ezekiel Jakub. 6. Current concepts in medical geography (1996-2004)/Rais Akhtar and Nilofar Izhar. 7. Household fuel: an assessment of the poor/Paramita Mookherjee. II. Medical geography: 8. Improving environmental hygiene for health promotion: The Healthy City Project of Mirzapur, U.P./Madhusree Mazumdar. 9. Cultural dimensions of diet and disease in India/Aninda K. Chakravarti. 10. Vulnerability of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and India/Jayati Ghosh and Bentley Olson. 11. Health care facilities and their utilization in Mirzapur District/M.B. Singh and Shivabali Singh. 12. The new tuberculosis/Jayati Hazra. 13. Life style change and incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Srinagar City/Rais Akhtar and G.M. Rather. 14. Geo-ecology of blindness in India/Nitasha Malhotra and Surinder Aggarwal. III. Conceptual Basis: 15. Disease ecology in the Kali River Basin/Preeti Tewari. 16. Determinants of rural male Out-Migration in Bihar/Sudesh Nangia and Sarvottam Kumar. 17. Rural migration in Burdwan District, West Bengal/B.R.K. Sinha. 18. Landscape of sacred territory of Khajuraho/Rana P.B. Singh. 19. Cultural geography of the sacred complex of Janakpur, Nepal/G.D. Singhal and Yogendra Prasad Yadav. 20. Place of rice farming in Assamese life and culture/M. Dutta and A.K. Bhagabati. 21. Linguistic regionalism and the social construction of India's political space/Sudeepto Adhikari and Ratan Kumar. 22. Caste and political system of Bihar/Jitendra Narayan. 23. Bodh-Gaya: a place of cultural opulence/Rana Pratap. 24. The folk culture of Mithila/B. Thakur, D.P. Singh and Tuntun Jha. 25. Indian languages and their dissemination: 1971-1991/Rajrani Kalra. IV. Demographic characteristics: 26. School drop-out in Rohtak District/S. Hasan Ansari and Rajinder. 27. Literacy differentials in tribal and non-tribal population of Sikkim/Rashmi Prakash. 28. Trend of women's employment in Guwahati City, Assam (India)/Rupali Phukan Bhuyan and H.N. Sharma. 29. Sex differentials in infant and child mortality in India-- a geo-historical perspective/Renu Malhotra and S.K. Aggarwal. Index. 

    Vol. III. Planning: Foreword by Prof. L.R. Singh. Preface. Academic profile of Professor Ashok K. Dutt. Contributors. I. Theoretical basis: 1. Global warming: differential impact and emerging dilemmas/Rajiv Thakur. 2. Emerging dimensions of regional development planning/C.R. Pathak. 3. Spatial approach for balanced regional development/R.V. Verma. 4. Rhetorical regionalism/Dennis Paul Tobin. 5. Roles of social science in the development of large scale irrigation in South Asia/Graham P. Chapman. 6. Water budget analysis in less developed countries/William C. Rense. 7. New economic geography: 'Whither Old Wine in New Bottle'/Sudhir K. Thakur. 8. Conservation concerns and community participation: a case study of some experiences in India/M.H. Qureshi. II. Methods in regional analysis: 9. Structure and structural changes in India: a regional analysis/Sudhir K. Thakur. 10. Geographic Information Dissemination for planning in India/B.K. Roy. 11. Methodological issues in socio-economic development/Ansar Ahmed and Ruben Chandrasekar. 12. Structural transformation of economy in Haryana/Nina Singh and Binu Sangwan. 13. Land use planning initiatives in Pennsylvania/John E. Benhart and Hilary Stephens. 14. Regional imbalances in India: an empirical analysis (1950-1990)/Poonam Sharma and B. Thakur. III. National basis of regional dimensions: 15. Transnational Corporations and Indian space-economy in the late 20 century/Swapna Banerjee-Guha. 16. Interface between urban and rural development in India/Udit Ratna. 17. Environmental sustainability in Nepal Himalaya/Krishna P. Poudel and B. Thakur. 18. Who gains and who loses: a review of Joint Forest Management in India/Madhuri Sharma. 19. Temperature changes in Major Agro-climatic Zones of Sri Lanka/K.W.G. Rekha Nianthi and A.C. Mohapatra. V. Regional case studies: 20. Changing land use in Karnataka/A.S. Rayamane. 21. Development of sustainable agriculture in Nainital District/Noor Mohammad and Sayed Zaheen Alam. 22. Economic viability of livestock-fodder relationship in a Himalayan Watershed/S.C. Rai and P. Sharma. 23. Strategies for dairy development in Kashmir Valley: a geographical perspective/Harmeet Singh and Rais Akhtar. 24. Integrated Watershed Management for hydrological risk reduction in the Indian Himalaya/R.B. Singh. 25. Management of common lands in the Sundargarh District, Orissa/Punyatoya Patra. 26. Banana Cultivation in Vaishali District: a study in resource management/B. Thakur and Varsha Tanu. 27. Regional disparities in agricultural labour productivity in the Brahmaputra Valley/Bimal Sharma and Surendra Singh. 28. Impact of drought on Sheep Migration in Rajasthan/M.K. Khandelwal. Index. 

    "This set of three volumes is not just a compilation of essays in honour of Professor Ashok Kumar Dutt, it personifies his life as a person and a professional. Prof. Dutt has established his international credentials as the leading exponent of urban and regional planning and has enriched both its theory and practice by his brilliant ideas and practical insights. His contributions in the areas of urban, social, cultural, medical, population, economic and development geography as well as in urban and regional development planning in India and abroad are very extensive and praiseworthy. These volumes reflect the spirit of Prof. Dutt's work and philosophy. 

    Volume one, containing thirty-two papers, provides an understanding of urban structure and problems ranging from national to the local level. Explaining the patterns and processes of urban network and systems in China, India and Korea, it discusses at length the evolution and characteristics of regional urbanization in Africa, India and Ohio. It also extends discussion on the characteristic features and infrastructural problems of different city sizes. 

    Volume two, having twenty-eight papers, deals with social and cultural aspects drawn from experiences of many countries. It provides glimpse of innovative ideas in the field of gender and migration, castes and political system, folk cultural and sacred landscapes, dissemination of language and linguistic regionalism, diet and disease, and health ecology and healthcare systems.

    Volume Three, consisting of twenty-eight papers, examines the different aspects of regional planning. Emerging issues like global warming and climate change, balanced regional development, new economic geography, community-based conservation, role of trans-national corporations, environmental sustainability and sustainable agriculture, joint forest management, integrated watershed and common land management are analyzed and documented. An introduction on the theory and methods of regional planning based on cross-cultural experiences, policy practices and sector-specific issues across the global to local scale has also been provided." (jacket) 

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