Course in Urban Management: Issues and Strategies

This course is designed to highlight both issues and strategies for the better management of our urban environment. Topics to be covered are :
The urbanization process
Economic restructuring and urban management
Planning for urban growth.
The organisational framework for urban management- the structure of urban administration in India.
Constitutional provisions, implications of the constitution(74th amendment) Act 1992.
Urban management-existing land policy and distortions in the land market, problems in the supply of services land, strategies for efficient land management.
Urban housing-supply side constraints, innovative strategies for increasing housing supply.
Urban basic services - water supply, sanitation and solid waste removal, existing organisational structures, what they deliver and fail to deliver, alternative strategies.
Transportation-policy options.
Resource mobilisation-existing tax base of urban local bodies.
Strategies for mobilizing greater resources