Subject(s): City planning in India in Congresses. -- City planning. -- Housing policy in India in Congresses. -- Development controls and building activity- urban development perspective, urban planning and building control -- Issues in controlling urban building activities, development control- built-up areas and mixed land use zoning, land use control in old Delhi, residential areas and incidence of socio economic facilities in walled city in Hyderabad, approach towards control of building bulk- appearance and shape, optimization of nature of building designs and land uses, squatting on public lands, relocating of squatters in Delhi - quest for a policy -- Slum and squatter settlements in Kanpur, development controls and implementation machinery, machinery for development control, inadequacies in building regulations and remedial measures for effecting control of urban building activities, development control- come problems of enforcement, development control- some legal aspects, municipal enforcement machinery- Mysore city, land use control and its enforcement in west Bengal, development control in greater Bombay, control of urban building activities in Uttar Pradesh, enforcement of development control - an alternative approach, problem of development control, control of urban activities in Amritsar, unauthorized constructions and control on urban building activities in Delhi