Open Space Planning in India (Schweizer Asiatische Studien / Etudes asiatique suisses Series)
Author:
Werner Y. Wolff
ISBN:
9783261042293
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
1990
Pages:
690
Size:
15 x 22 cm
Weight:
1 kg 095 grams
Price:
INR
6890.00
This probably first specialized and comprehensive book on open space planning in a developing country is an empirical study. Its interdisciplinary approach embraces planning and sociological perspectives. The open space problem of cities is analysed on the background of the actual situation of urban planning and housing and of its organisational, financial, legal and social frames. Key persons of both the camps of open space suppliers and users are interviewed. A detailed commentary attempts to answer the question of how a satisfactory supply and maintenance of urban open space could be kept in the light of rising costs and decreasing finances, resulting high densities and smaller houses and of the immense needs for basic shelter for at least a 100 million migrants and squatters expected alone for the four largest urban agglomerations within the next decades.
Dietrich Muller-Falcke
Dietrich Müller-Falcke studied economics at the Universities of Göttingen and Glasgow. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 2001. From 1996 to 1998 the author worked as scientific advisor to the ZDH Partnership Programme, a project to promote small business associations in South and South-East Asian countries. In 1998 he joint the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn as junior research fellow working on «ICT for development» with a special focus on small businesses. Currently Dietrich Müller-Falcke is with DETECON Consulting, Bonn, as strategy and management consultant in international telecommunication markets.