Introduction
Urban development covers a set of policies, plans, strategies, and approaches to create infrastructure and deliver services for education, health, transportation, pollution control, waste management, markets, industries, enterprises, investment zones street pavements, housing, cultural heritage, and recreation in urban areas in a manner which ensures sustainability through optimum utilization of men, material and environmental resources.
Urbanization is the defining paradigm of twenty-first century. Urbanization seems to be unstoppable and inevitable; henceforth, it is necessary to make sure that urban infrastructure and urban services in regard to housing, transportation, health, education, and employment, etc., should be commensurate with increasing urbanization and growing...
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Srivastava, A.K. (2017). Comparative Urban Development. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3189-1
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