The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning

About the Book

This book is comprised of articles and papers that have come about after years of academic and applied research endeavors of the practitioners and academicians in the field of urban and regional development planning. Most of these articles have already been presented and deliberated in national and international conferences held in different parts of the world, namely: Indianapolis, Newcastle upon Tyne, Rome, Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, Vienna, Stockholm, Jeddah, Riyadh, Jubail, Islamabad, Penang, and Bandung. The concepts and case studies described in this book bring home the fact that the world is undergoing a gyrational transition. Not only are developed and developing countries getting influenced by each other and transforming due to a process of circular causation, but each of the two sets of countries are also undergoing a simultaneous internal transformation due to the differential infusion of technology and indigenous entrepreneurship. As a consequence, highly diversified urban systems are getting integrated interactively, leading to the formation of a global village and achievement of a unity in diversity!

About the Author

Dr. Anis ur Rahmaan is an engineer, architect, and an urban and regional planner. He has studied and taught in ten institutions of higher learning in the USA, UK, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. He prepared the first Master Plan for Greater Lahore—the second largest city of Pakistan—in the 1960s, which has not only been catalogued in the Library of Congress but also in the libraries of the major US universities. He worked for a number of years as Director of Town Planning of the Punjab and North Western Frontier Provinces in Pakistan. He was awarded International Development Fellowship by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii in 1967, and later conferred the Best Professor’s Award by the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has also worked as United Nations’ Advisor for Urban and Regional Planning for about ten years in Saudi Arabia and as a UN Consultant in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. In 1999 his name appeared in Who’s Who in the World. Currently he is engaged in community development and poverty alleviation through educational and vocational training programs on philanthropic basis in Pakistan. Dr. Rahmaan has already published two books: (i) Anjuman-e-Arzu in Urdu language for the people at large and (ii) The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning: Concepts and Case Studies from the Developing World for the academicians, practitioners and students of Urban and regional planning. He has also contributed a number of articles in leading literary and professional journals and chapters in edited books. Author’s eletronic addresses: (i) arahmaan@hotmail.com; (ii) anis.urrahmaan@gmail.com