Advances in Urban Design and Engineering: Perspectives from India [Hardcover]

This volume discusses a combination of topics dealing with the wide variety of urban planning, authored by well reputed scholars in India mastering disciplines such as architecture, urban design, transportation planning, public policy, urban planning, urban engineering and civil engineering. It focuses on contemporary problems in metro cities like New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, etc. This book also highlights critical aspects of urban developments while considering the aspects of mega infrastructure projects especially related to water, waste water treatment and environmental issues.

Chapter 1: Creating a framework to exploring densities in the contemporary postindustrial city.- Chapter 2: Livelihoods, Mobility, and Housing: In Search of Missing Links in Indian Towns.- Chapter 3: The pattern of gentrification in a knowledge economy: The case of Bengaluru, India.- Chapter 4: Are new towns in developing nations designed for a sustainable living? Investigating the perception of the residents from Navi Mumbai, India. 

Dr. Arnab Jana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering and associate faculty at Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He works in the area of urban infrastructure policy and planning, primarily focusing on public health policy, application of ICT in urban and regional planning, sustainability & environmental issues. He has been the visiting faculty at Hiroshima University, Japan in 2016. Dr. Jana holds Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded the prestigious Monbukagusho Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Government of Japan. He is also an alumnus of Asian Program of lncubation of Environmental Leadership (APIEL), University of Tokyo. Dr. Jana holds a Masterlw