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Planning from the bottom up : democratic decentralisation in action /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pal, A.
Autor Corporativo: IOS Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amsterdam] : IOS Press, 2010.
Colección:Sustainable urban areas ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: purpose and design of the study
  • Introduction
  • A review of the literature
  • The origins of the 'bottom-up approach' in the planning literature
  • Models for institutions that support people-centred planning
  • Decentralisation, participation and democracy
  • Research question
  • Research methods
  • Context of metropolitan planning in Kolkata
  • Political context
  • Socio-economic context
  • Planning institutions in India
  • Decentralisation of Kolkata's metropolitan planning
  • The 'official story'Decentralisation in West Bengal
  • Partisan politics and urban planning
  • Three-tier metropolitan planning
  • Agents of change in the decentralisation process
  • Actors in planning at the ward level
  • Comparative urban politics
  • Why study comparative urban politics?
  • What is the framework for comparison?
  • A comparison with Mumbai, revisited
  • Political space for non-partisan grassroots organising
  • Politically independent bureaucracy
  • Lessons in decentralised planning
  • Theoretical implications
  • Lesson drawing
  • Policy implicationsLessons and policies for civil society organisations
  • Lessons and policies for the political class
  • Lessons and policies for planners and bureaucrats
  • Lessons for civic activists, NGOs and international agencies
  • Future direction of research
  • Abstract
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • References
  • Curriculum Vitae