NEW PERSPECTIVES IN URBAN GEOGRAPHY

By: S.B Singh
Publisher:MD Publications Pvt Ltd
Pub. Date: 1996
Print ISBN-13: 9788175330146
Subject: GEOGRAPHY
Price
Print (In INR)
Rs.300.00


Print (In USD)
USD 15

Urban Geography has been consistently growing as a systematic branch of reographical knowing.Its scope and subject matter has been broadened,its analytical focus has been realigned and its analytical tools have been refined.The book focuses upon multifaceted themes with regard to status,growth and concepts in urban geography,urban settlement pattern of urbanization in developing countries.The uniqueness of the book lies in managing contributions from schools from developing as well as developed counties.The contributions included in this book are indicative of some of the new perspective which urban geography have been studing for quite sometime now.

Author(s)
S.B Singh





Preface

Page :vii

Contributors
Page :xiii

Status, Growth and Concepts in Urban Geography O.P.Singh
Page :1

Urban Settlement Patterns in Oman Prithvish Nag
Page :11

Nature of Urban Growth and Concentration in Developing Countries : A Case of India Ram Bali Singh
Page :21

Urbanization in Developing Countries Issues and Challenges A.P.Mishra and A.K.Singh
Page :37

Urbanization in Developing Countries : Issues and Challenges
Page :37

Small Towns in Urbanization of Eastern Uttar Pradesh M.B.Singh and R.S.Chandel
Page :45

Histogenesis and Functional Characteristics of Pokhara Nepal
Page :51

Development and Functional Morphology of Sasaram town Lallan Singh, B.P.Singh and Abha Kumari
Page :61

Women Workers in Unorganised Sectors of Urban India: A Case Study S.B.Singh
Page :67

Agarbatti Industry in Karnataka : A Case of Bangalore Daksha C. Barai
Page :75

Periodic Markets and Traders in South West Shewa Region of Ethiopia S.B. Singh
Page :83

Rural-Urban Fringes : Another Apporach Guy van Oort
Page :97

Impact of Suburbanization in Canton Township of Detroit Metropolitan Region U.S.A. Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali
Page :113

Transportation Planning in the Indian Cities S.N.tripathi and A.Tripathi
Page :139

Urban Environmental Problems in Nepal : A Case of Pokhara S.B.Singh and D.B.Lamichhane
Page :133

Madras Metropolitan Area: Emerging Environmental Issues A.Ramesh and R.Gunaselvam
Page :143

Green House Gases and Atmospheric Quality in Mega Cities of India R.B.Singh and Bhuwan Kumar
Page :153

Urban Environment : A Case of River Water Quality at Allahabad V.K.Kumar,Jadgish Singh & Laxmi Narayan
Page :159