

@mastersthesis {6976,
	title = {Urban services in the {National} {Cities} of {India}: organization, financing, planning and delivery},
	year = {1991},
	note = {U040937},
	school = {University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)},
	type = {phdPh.{D}.},
	address = {Ann Arbor},
	abstract = {The research presented in this dissertation was undertaken to explain why the National Cities of India (Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Bombay) are deficient in providing urban services and what can be done to improve service delivery. The focus of the research was upon the organizational, financial, planning and management aspects of service delivery, rather than upon the technical and technological aspects, such as forecasting, service standards and infrastructure design. Three urban services, electricity, environmental sanitation and roads, are examined through case studies. Six main factors which contribute to service deficiencies are explored: (i) the historical processes of urbanization; (ii) the historical patterns of urban growth; (iii) the historical organization of urban government for service delivery; (iv) the structure of urban finance; (v) the nature of urban planning; and (vi) the internal dynamics of service delivery agencies in planning, producing, operating and distributing urban services. The research concludes that urban service deficiencies in the National Cities can be explained in terms of: (i) the development policies pursued by colonial and post colonial governments, policies which saddled the cities with a poverty stricken population because they discouraged urban industrial development, causing the growth of marginal employment in the bazaar sector; (ii) the growth of the National Cities as accretions of differentiated serviced and unserviced areas and the accommodation of rural migrants through densification and the proliferation of unauthorized settlements, which together have resulted in intractable physical patterns which pose problems for service delivery; (iii) the creation in the colonial period and the perpetuation during the post colonial era, of a weak and spatially, sectorally and functionally fragmented system of urban government, incapable of delivering services on a co-ordinated and city wide basis; (iv) the weak structure of urban finance caused by institutional and admnistrative barriers to local resource mobilization and by the lack of appropriate mechanisms for transfers and institutional finance; (v) the absence of city wide urban planning during the colonial period and the inadequacies of urban planning during the post colonial period, inadequacies caused by the application of western theory, faulty assumptions, the inability to deal with the informal sector, lack of comprehensiveness and lack of concern for the built up areas of the city; and (vi) deficiencies in service delivery agencies in planning, producing, operating and distributing services, inadequacies caused by weaknesses in organization and management, pathologies of third world administration (such as corruption) and inequitable distribution.},
	keywords = {(UMI)AAIU040937, 0999:Urban planning, Bibliographies, Psychology{\textendash}Abstracting, Social sciences, Statistics, Urban planning},
	url = {http://search.proquest.com/docview/301440102?accountid=14270},
	author = {Mathur, B}
}
