Subject(s): Cities and towns in India. -- Community development, Urban in India. -- Urban policy in India. -- urban development -- urban crisis -- Polices and strategies for housing, infrastructure and urban development -- Urbanization -- Sustainability and affordability -- Urban housing and shelter -- New economic polices and Urban housing -- HUDCO -- Trends in human settlements technology -- Urban system analysis and problem solution -- Urban service -- Integrated infrastructure development -- Urban governmental management -- Redefining civic environmental engineering practices -- Sanitation -- Solid waste management -- Integrated development for small and medium towns -- Basic services for the urban poor -- Slum improvement projects -- Urban poor and basic services -- Poverty eradication -- Non-governmental organizations in urban infrastructure -- Gender awareness -- Finance for urban development, infrastructure and housing -- Housing and urban infrastructure -- Decentralisation for municipal finance -- Fiscal instruments in local finance -- Urban infrastructure investments through capital market -- Debt market development through infrastructure finance -- Privatization of urban infrastructure -- Urban land development -- Urban development planning at cross-roads -- urban coherence and the architecture of housing -- Urban conservation and rehabilitation -- Urban management and institutional development -- 74th constitutional amendment on urban management -- Information systems for urban development