Urban Development Dynamics of Policy & Planning
Authors:
Dr. Mohammad Tahir,
Format: Paperback | Genre : Society & Social Sciences | Other Book Detail
Format: Paperback | Genre : Society & Social Sciences | Other Book Detail
Man is a social animal and lives in groups, interrelated and interdependent.
However, there was great variability in this manner of living. Man started with
nomadic ways of life moving from one place to the other, as the movement
was contingent to the vagaries of the season/climate/nature or environment.
The revolution came when men developed “aggressive attitude towards the
environment” (Childe, Gordon V., 1936). From this critical beginning basically
there was no stop and human societies became more and more complex, even
shuttering off territorial boundaries. Today with the onslaught of information
technology the term like ‘global village’ are being frequently used to fathom
the vast area in which total human population is living. However, on the same
coin dichotomy persists in the form of rural and urban areas and consequent
phenomenon like that of urbanization and urbanism; and related problems of
availability and utilisation of Urban Basic Services (UBS)
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