Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : HS5324 : Urban Governance and Development { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Sthitapragyan Ray
Syllabus
Modules:
Unit 1: Definitional and Theoretical Aspects:
City, Urban, Urbanization, Urban in India, Governance, Development, and Classical and Contemporary Theoretical Ideas of City, Governance and Development.
Unit 2: Historical and Processual Aspects
History of urbanization, Urbanization processes, Patterns of Urbanization, Settlement Systems, Indian Metropolis, and Rural-urban Fringe.
Unit 3: Cultural Dimensions
Urban culture – Urbanism as a way of life, Small Town Cultures, New Urban Middle Class.
Unit 4: Institutional Frameworks for Governance and Development
Decentralization, Participatory Governance, 74th Constitutional Amendment Act and Urban Local Institutions, Urban Governance Mechanisms (Case Studies: Delhi and Mumbai).
Unit 5: Plans, Policies and Laws
Urbanization Policy and Planning, Land and Infrastructure, SEZs and Urban Governance and Laws (Case studies: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 and The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016).
Unit 6: Pertinent Issues
Population Dynamics, Urban Basic Amenities, Slums and Urban Poor.
Unit 7: Emerging Dimensions
Emerging Megacities, Smart Cities, Good Governance, Digital Governance, Globalization and New Dimensions of Development
Course Objectives
- It helps to understand the evolution and development of cities, suburb and metropolitan areas.
- It enriches the understanding on governance and development.
- It helps to understand the policies and programmes of urban development.
- It enable the students to solve the problems pertaining to urban development and develop better strategies for the same.
Course Outcomes
The course aims to provide the students an understanding of how cities, suburb and metropolitan areas function and is governed. The principal objective of the course is that the students should gain a sense of how the problem of urban areas might be better addressed. At the end of this course, students will have deeper knowledge and well equipped in solving such problems themselves.
Essential Reading
- Ahluwalia, Isher Judge, Ravi Kanbur and P. K. Mohanty. (Eds.)., Urbanization in India: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward., SAGE, New Delhi. , 2014.
- Patel, Sujata & Kushal Deb (Eds.)., Urban Studies., Oxford University Press, New Delhi. , 2009.
Supplementary Reading
- Joel Ruet and S. T. Lama-Rewal (eds.,)., Governing India’s Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities., Routledge, New Delhi. , 2009.
- Baud, I.S.A. and de Wit, J., New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations., SAGE, New Delhi. , 2009.