Civic Affairs, Opseg 17

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P. C. Kapoor at the Citizen Press, 1969
 

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Stranica 5 - Even the stones here whisper to our ears of the ages of long ago and the air we breathe is full of the dust and fragrance of the past, as also of the fresh and piercing winds of the present.
Stranica 96 - Emergency is in operation (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Chapter, Parliament shall, while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, have power to make laws for the whole or any part of the territory of India with respect to any of the matters enumerated in the State List.
Stranica 8 - These figures suggest that between 1960 and 1980 the developing world must add to its urban equipment — housing, civic buildings, urban schools, hospitals and transport, urban places of employment- — the equivalent of all the cities already built in the developed world over centuries of urban growth. The gigantic scale of such a task, Its virtual impossibility of fulfilment, are enough to suggest that urban growth in the developing world today Is not so much a measure of healthy, inevitable processes...
Stranica 8 - Today in the developing world the position is almost exactly reversed. In country after country, the percentage of the population in towns is considerably higher than the percentage of men working in industry. In Tunisia in 1956 17.5 per cent of the people were in cities, only 6.8 per cent of the labour force in industry. In Brazil in 1960 the proportions were 28.1 and 9.5 ; in Venezuela in 1961 a fantastic contrast of 47.2 and 8.8 per cent. Malaya and Korea, both in 1957, had more than 20 per cent...
Stranica 69 - Corporation to exercise its power as progressively to provide or secure or promote the provision of an efficient, adequate, economical and properly coordinated system of road transport services in the State or part of the State for which it is established and in any extended area.
Stranica 12 - Let not our rulers forget that "self-government implies the right to go wrong for it is nobler for a nation as for a man to struggle towards excellence with its own natural force and vitality, however blindly and vainly, than to live in irreproachable decency under expert guidance from without.
Stranica 105 - Most Indian cities can be divided into two parts: the densely crowded city proper, and the widespread area with bungalows and cottages, each with a fairly extensive compound or garden, usually referred to by the English as the 'Civil Lines'.
Stranica 29 - Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation's faith in the future.
Stranica 96 - Delhi, namely: (a) proposals for undertaking legislation with respect to any of the matters enumerated in the State List or the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution in so far as any such matter is applicable in relation to Union territories...
Stranica 8 - They provided ever larger economies of scale, ever wider varieties of employment and, as the whole society became more sophisticated, a far greater range of tertiary services. It was in this way that cities came to be seen as the essential and successful creators and transmission-belts of the new technological system. There is, however, no doubt about which came first — not the large cities but the stimulus to industrialisation and all its attendant employment-giving needs. In nineteenth century...

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