Space Environment Well-being: Urban India at the Turn of 21st Century

The Indian city defies every law of governance. The complexity of religious communal exclusion and caste hierarchy is in tandem with the crass dilapidation of city's built environment. There is a chaotic fusion of tradition and modernity expressed in myriad ways as the city dwellers identify and make use of the city's social space. This has created a unique spatial pattern of living conditions and well-being status of various social groups. The present book renders the role of a window to peep into this unique developing world growth saga, through case study of Aligarh city, which somehow defies to take a course of healthy comedy.