This collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustainable urban development and best practices in terms of theory as well as praxes. Contributors have made an attempt to critically reconcile the hypothetical with the applied in order to arrive at innovative solutions for urban good governance in the context of the steady proliferation of habitats and conurbations all over the world. Their papers more often than not transcend regional specifics to address the common agenda of urban development debates as informed by assorted modernization perspectives in the 21st Century. This Volume brings together social scientists, development consultants and nonprofit professionals so that multipositional theories and multicultural praxes might be reflected in their papers based on empirical research and field-level insights. It is expected that this Volume will provoke fresh debates and new ideas that will facilitate theory-building as well as formulation of paradigms for good practices and sustainable urban applications. The book would be found highly useful by town planners, municipal administrators, NGOs working in the field of urban development and common readers interested in urban problems and policies. It will be equally valuable for policy makers as well as students, researchers and teachers of urban economics, urban sociology, urban geography and public administration.

Table of Contents:
Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium: An Introduction –Prasenjit Maiti 1. Managing Sustainable Urban Development: A Technical or Political Task? –Adriana Allen 2. Promoting Social Justice in Disaster Reconstruction: Guidelines for Gender-Sensitive and Community-based Planning –Elaine Enarson 3. Waste Management in India: The Experience of Hyderabad with Community-based Waste Disposal Scheme –Aftab Erfan 4. Pragmatic Approach to Resolve Habitational Crisis in Urban India –Rajeev John George 5. Access to Water Supply and Sanitation Services of Low-Income Households in the Peri-Urban Interface of Developing Countries–Pascale Hofmann 6. Waste Management and Recycling in a Deprived Urban Community: A Liverpool Case Study –Ruth Melville and Ronaldo Munck 7. Health for Urban Slum Women: Perspectives on Communication Strategies –Haripriya Modugula 8. Policy Implications of Urban Co-Location Through Industry Clusters and Networks in Queensland’s Music Industry –Abraham Ninan 9. Communication Challenges and Strategies for a Healthy Urban Environment –Kiran Prasad 10. On Environmental Pollution: The Fall-Out of Unplanned Urban Development –Dilip Roy 11. En Route to Reform: Improving Urban Shelter and Infrastructure in the City of Kolkata –Sanchaita Saha 12. African Migrant Entrepreneurship, Social Networks and Informal Urban Economy: The Case of the City of Pointe-Noire (Congo-Brazzaville) –Gabriel TATI