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Planning from the bottom up :

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1282880365

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1607505916

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9781282880368

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9781607505914

Erroneous ISBN

1586039105

Erroneous ISBN

9781586039103

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b715129

Title Proper

Planning from the bottom up :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

democratic decentralisation in action /

First Statement of Responsibility

Anirban Pal.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Amsterdam :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Delft University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (126 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map.

Series Title

Sustainable urban areas,

Volume Designation

20

ISSN of Series

1574-6410 ;

Text of Note

Revised version of: thesis (doctoral)--University of Colorado, 2007.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-124).

Text of Note

1. Introduction : purpose and design of the study -- 2. Context of metropolitan planning in Kolkata -- 3. Decentralisation of Kolkata's metropolitan planning -- 4. Comparative urban politics -- 5. Lessons in decentralised planning.

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Text of Note

Planning from the Bottom up highlights the gap between the official rhetoric and the political reality of democratic decentralisation and bottom-up planning using an in-depth study of the metropolitan planning process in Kolkata, India. The key issue addressed here is how elected officials at different governmental levels, professional planners, and ordinary citizens interact in the process of metropolitan planning, and which players dominate the process. The focus is on the dynamic interactions between panners and the operation of the political process that shapes this reality. This book illustrates that there are differences in the real motives for the state to pursue decentralisation and what it claims to be behind its decentralisation policy and that he planning process is unlikely to be truly bottom-up if power is concentrated within any one political party. It also depicts how external funding, either from international agencies or higher levels of government, has the potential to force change in th local and regional structures of decision-making so that the voices of ordinary people can be included in public decision-making; for the effective implementation of bottom-up approaches to metropolitan planning the planning bureaucracy needs to be indepndent of the political class and bottom-up planning requires that planning capacity be built from a grassroots level. This requires devolution of both responsibilities and means/resources to carry out those responsibilities to the lowest level of planning.

Title

Planning from the bottom up.

International Standard Book Number

9781586039103

City planning-- India-- Kolkata-- Citizen participation.

City planning-- Citizen participation.

Demokratisierung

Dezentralisation

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Stadtplanung

Kolkata (India), Politics and government, 21st century.

Kolkata (India), Social conditions, 21st century.

India, Kolkata.

Kalkutta

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Edition

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Book number

Pal, Anirban.

Delft Centre for Sustainable Urban Areas.

Date of Transaction

20201208052608.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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