Broschiertes Buch

Sustainable Urban Forms and Communities

Urban Geographies of Eastern India: Urban Geographies of Eastern India

Herausgeber: Sivaramakrishnan, Lakshmi; Bandyopadhyay, Sumana

Beschreibung

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century. It focuses on the emerging urban landscapes of the state and neighbouring areas on building sustainable urban units and sustainable communities.

Autor

Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan is a Professor of Geography at Jadavpur University. She is an Urban Geographer who is proficient in Remote Sensing GIS and therefore combines the strengths of Regional Planning and Human Geography. She is in the editorial board of many renowned journals and at present is the Editor of Geographical Review of India, Kolkata. At present she has three books under pipeline two being published by Elsevier and one by Routledge, Francis Taylor Sumana Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Geography at the University of Calcutta. Her areas of research include Urban Geography, Urban Environmental Planning, Disaster Studies and Gender Geography. India. She has led several research projects with international collaboration, recent ones being with Nottingham University (AHRC-UKRI), University of Waterloo (as collaborator with interRAI network representing India at the iNMH), worked as Short-Term Consultant for the World Bank. Her recent publication with Routledge, Kolkata: the Colonial City in Transformation, awaits release. Between 2016 and 2022, under the series on Contemporary Issues in South Asia she edited six titles. She works in the Editorial Team of the RSPP, Asia Pacific Journal of Regional Sciences and The Geographical Review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032834535
• ISBN-10: 1032834536
• Artikelnr.: 75426518