Cities and Housing (PUG-11)

This is the third set of volumes in the well known series entitled Concept’s Inter- national Series in Geography. This multi-volume set has a wide coverage under the title Perspectives in Urban Geography. The earlier two sets in the series were: Perspectives in Agricultural Geography and Perspectives in Geomorphology. Traditional studies on aspects of Urban Geography had been concentrating on observational records of developments of towns and cities till the subject came to acquire behavioural approach recently. What resulted was a new matrix of ‘philosophies, methodologies and their ingenious application to what had been researched through the years. The present set of volumes ventures to make a rigorous survey of the literature on Urban Geography after its reorientation as it were. Housing, through the role of politics and public consciousness, is one of the key problems which link both material and social aspects of the city. In the present-day situation housing assumes complex dimensions in terms of its economic, social, political and legal framework so as no single discipline can claim monopoly of knowledge. In this volume on Cities and Housing all vital factors, technological, social, environmental and those connected with typical designs for living, have been surveyed by experts in different fields. The contributions in this volume have been divided into four sections. Section one deals with those papers which reflect different attributes of housing. Section two deals with the multinational perspectives on housing policies. The implementation of housing and urban revitalization policies at the local level are dealt with in Section three. Section four pertains to problems and issues confronting housing policies: policy inputs and residential evaluations.