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Accessible Housing for South Asia

Needs, Implementation and Impacts
Buch | Softcover
XXIII, 322 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-88883-1 (ISBN)
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This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia. It analyses various aspects of housing, including spatial and temporal requirements and needs, as well as the challenges of implementing housing projects, such as financial feasibility of estate development projects and housing design. Finally, it discusses the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the rapid urban housing development in South Asia. 

Written by experts from various disciplines, the book presents several case studies that address issues such as housing provision; legislative, financial and technical support; access to employment opportunities and markets; the cumulative impact on gentrification; exclusion and spatial equity; and the economic, social and environmental sustainability of urban tissue. Researchers, housing planners, and policy makers will find this book a valuable resource in meeting the demand for affordable and sustainable housing and overcoming housing shortagesin developing countries

lt;p>Kanika Basu is General Manager (Jt) at Housing and Urban Development Corporation, New Delhi, specialises in Urban Planning and is currently engaged in projects related to the improvement of living conditions in slums, housing for the urban poor, and micro-finance for better livelihood promotion. Ms. Basu's research interests relate to people's perspectives and participation in development processes and tourism led development. 

Amitabh Kundu is currently Distinguished Fellow at Research and Information System and World Resources Institute. He was Professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India). He has written extensively on Urban Studies, Employment, and Regional Planning and is on the editorial board of many Indian and international journals. 

Habibullah Magsi works at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Sindh Agriculture University (Pakistan). His research focuses on Development Economics and professor Magsi's department's current project is 'Proximate driving forces of "land use conflicts" in developing countries'. 

Sumana Bandyopadhyay is a professor at the Department of Geography of University of Calcutta (India), specialized in Urban and Regional Planning. She has published scientific peer-reviewed articles and books and is involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects on applied environmental, societal, and development matters. She is currently President, Regional Science Association, India.

Tomaz Ponce Dentinho is a professor of Regional, Environmental, and Agriculture Economics at the University of Azores (Portugal). Dr Dentinho is as well responsible for the Regional Cooperation Research Program of the Brussels-based think tank South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.

Introduction to Accessible Housing.- Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for operationalising the Flagship missions in India.- India's poor and better-off urban citizens: Cycles of proximity and segregation.- Housing Inequality by Social Groups, Gender, and Place of Residence: A District-Level Geospatial Analysis in India.- Neoliberalism and Housing Affordability Crisis in Dhaka where Market Enabling Efforts Failed.- Increasing Housing Demand in Pakistan.- A Review of Rural Housing Schemes in India for Sustainable Habitats.- Sheltering Urban Poor: Looking for a New Approach.- A Detailed Study on the Mud-Bonded Masonry Houses in Nepal both before and after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.- A road to recovery: Housing reconstruction in Bhaktapur Nepal post the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.- Housing in Smart City - The Emperor has No Clothes.- Affordable Housing in Pakistan: The Policy and Institutional Imperatives.- Multilocational Householding: Implications for Urban Development in Pakistan.- Naya Pakistan Housing Program: An Analytical Study of Mortgage-Backed Security Model and Legal Framework for Low-Cost Accessible Housing Scheme in Pakistan.- Rural Housing Programme (Indira Awaas Yojana) in West Bengal, India: Trends of Achievements.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XXIII, 322 p. 57 illus., 47 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 527 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte Affordable Housing • Housing and urban sustainability • Housing demand • Housing design and implementation • Housing finances • Sustainable Development Goals • Urban Economics • urbanization • Urban Migration
ISBN-10 3-030-88883-5 / 3030888835
ISBN-13 978-3-030-88883-1 / 9783030888831
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