Urban and Regional Planning and Development

Rajiv R. Thakur is Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geosciences at Missouri State University, West Plains. He was previously faculty at University of South Alabama and the University of Tennessee. He has published and presented within the context of urban and regional economic development and is exploring new research at the intersection of economics and environment through the lens of sustainability. He went on to become Chair of the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers. Since 2018, he has served on the editorial board of Asian Geographer. He holds a PhD in Geography from the Indiana State University, MA in Geography from the University of Akron and an MA in Political Science from the University of Delhi.

Urban and Regional Planning and Development: Introduction and Overview.- Frank J. Costa: Professional Career and Contributions.- Regional Development and Planning.- Forty Years of  Urban and Regional Development and Planning in China.- Urban and Regional Development and Planning in India's Five Year Plans: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues.- South African Urban Planning in the 20th and 21st Centuries - Continuities between the Apartheid and Democratic eras?.- A Reappraisal of Spatial Planning in Botswana.- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday?.- Remaking 'Urban' in 21st Century Neoliberal India.- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting.- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador.- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space.- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston.- Ecological Regional Planning: An Approach of the Protected Areas and the Environmental Services in Costa Rica.- Remaking 'Urban' in 21st Century Neoliberal India.- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting.- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador.- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space.- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston.- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday?.- Geographies of Indian Women's Everyday Public Safety.- Land Use Change Outside Dhaka Metropolitan Area: An Analysis of Factors from Physical, Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspectives.- Consequences of Unplanned Growth: A Case Study of Metropolitan Hyderabad.- Slum Upgradation and Improvement through Slums Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in Delhi.- Remodelling Urban Villages in Delhi: The Overriding Role of Transportation Lines.- Regional Differentials in Transformation of Dalits in Northwestern India.- Land Use Planning Policies and Gentrification in U. S. Cities.- State-led Urbanity: Reexamining Modern Movement Servicescapes.- Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization vis-a-vis Participatory Decentralization.- Changing Trajectories of Urban Governance and Participatory Urban Development in India.- Politics and Ethics in the Process of Plan Preparation and Implementation.- Participatory Comprehensive Planning of Amphawa District, Thailand.- Infrastructure and Regional Development in India: Spatial Linkages and Policy Implications.- Tourism and Urban Development in Chennai, India: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis.- Knowledge and Skills for India's Urban Transformation-High Growth Period for Urban Planning.- Intermediary Cities of Refuge: From Istanbul to Kolkata.- Return Migrants as Force to Urban Transformation - A Case Study from Poznan, Poland.- Leveraging Brewing History: The Case of Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood.- Sustainable Cities in the Global South:Lessons from the African Continent.- Growing Sustainable Transportation in an Autocentric Community: Current Trends and Applications.- Sacred-Heritage City Development and Planning in India: A Study of Banaras and Ayodhya.- An Assessment of Preservation Planning Activities in Pennsylvania Municipalities Using the Historic District Act.

"The book will certainly be of great value to students, researchers, and policymakers, as claimed by its blurb. Herein, students will get conversant with the latest in the field of urban and regional planning as impacting on development, researchers will be enthused to pursue projects on all-inclusive transformation of cities and regions, and policymakers will be sensitised to finding answers to the dilemmas over what to do or not to do." (Gopal Krishan, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 56 (28), July, 2021)

"The editors have accomplished a great job and have done the discipline a great service by bringing together such a powerful collection of writings and by organizing them so meaningfully. The book certainly adds to the existing body of literatures in the subject of urban and regional planning and development. It will benefit students, scholars, and professionals." (Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Transactions, Vol. 42 (2), 2020)