UID:
almahu_9949434885202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxxvi, 356 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781000603736
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1000603733
,
9781003205968
,
1003205968
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9781000603712
,
1000603717
Content:
This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation. It discusses different facets of urban geography and highlights the contemporary challenges of a major primate city in South Asia, which represents the conflicts between the traditional and the modern, the rich and the poor, the skyscrapers and the shanties. With its detailed empirical research and mapping exercises based on real-time remote sensing data, the book offers an understanding of a range of contemporary urban issues. It examines the spatial consequences of urban sprawl, land-use changes, ecological crisis, climate change, critical disasters, dynamics of the peri-urban interface, neighborhood restructuring, debates around heritage conservation, housing poverty, gray spaces, governance and the political landscape of the city. This book will be useful to students, teachers, and researchers of geography, especially human geography and urban geography, urban studies, urban development and planning, regional planning, social geography, governance, ecology, economics, and South Asian studies. It will also benefit urban planners, development professionals, and those interested in the study of the city of Kolkata and its transformations.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1032020970
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032020976
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003205968
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003205968
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