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Synopsis The present volume on 'Urban Development in India' examines in detail critically the problems, policies, programmes and perspectives on controlling and planning for urban centres with a view to make them generative cities and livable cities. The study has broad analytical and poicy perspectives canvas on Urban Problems like Urban Housing, Urban Poverty, Urban Water Supply and Sewerage, Urban Public Road Transport, Environmental Pollution, Problems of Municipal Finance and Urban Planning. It examines the urban policies adopted so far critically and offers alternative policy options to solve the different negative urban externalities in India. Thus, the present volume will be useful for urban planners, policy makers as well as students researchers and teachers of Urban Economics, Urban Sociology and Urban Geography.