Description The twenty-first century will witness a rapid urban expansion in the developing world.
India, it is believed, will be at the forefront of such a phenomenon.
This book acknowledges the role of agglomeration externalities as the cornerstone of urban public policy in India.
Arguing that hypotheses of over-urbanization and urban bias theory--which articulated a negative view of urbanization--are based on fragile theoretical as well as empirical foundations, .