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Explorations in Urban Planning
Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millennium edited by Allen G Noble, A S Mukherjee, Baleshwar Thakur and Frank J Costa; Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 2000, Rs 495, pp 480.
This book is a collection of 30 papers contributed by colleagues and former students of Ashok Dutt, Professor of Geography and Urban Affairs at the University of Akron, Ohio, US to felicitate him on his 60th birthday. Three of the four editors have contributed papers themselves. Nineteen papers are about India. Of the remainder two are about China, one is about Israel, one about Bangladesh and the remaining seven papers are about the US and Europe.
The papers give a good account of the wide range of subjects being studied by geographers and urban planners in the last two decades of the last century.