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practical engagement with the built environment." The review also pointed out that although the book is "not intended as a scholarly book, is well grounded in data, and supported with relevant statistics, footnotes, references, and graphs that prove the great challenges that India is facing" but "hile the statistics make one confront an overwhelming urban crisis in India, through case studies, his intimate narrative orients us toward realistic solutions that can make a difference to improving people's lives in cities"."His visions for the city are inclusive of all social classes rather than schemes for gentrification" and "he encourages the reader to rethink his or her surroundings and imagine futures that would improve the neighborhood and city for all sections of society".
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because it "is endowed with a refreshing contemporary graphic expression, which serves to facilitate the presentation of the drier end of the material. The contents' different qualities of paper – uncoated, glazed and gray recycled-twig paper – impart a most interesting and varying expression to the
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to modern-day China, and one about some of the challenges and opportunities India faces with regard to urbanization. 2. Two essays about the author's experiences working in the cities of
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about five basic concerns of human existence and well-being in urban settings: air, water, food, housing and mobility. Each chapter discusses one of these concerns and provides a proposal to address it. The proposals include the use of plants and
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between 2010 and 2014. With experiences from both China and India, Henrik Valeur asks whether India can "use urbanization as a driver of economic, human and social development like China has done?"
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book. The cover has been printed on a wonderful piece of uncalendered nutmeg-stained chipboard; this fashions an exquisite organic frame around the clean and matter-of-fact typesetting."
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