Subject(s): City Planning -- Land Use problems -- Urbanization in Kerala -- Plannig Standards -- City and city planning, origin and growth of cities, city planning, urbanization -- Human settlements and regional planning, doctor and patient, land use problems, cancerous growth of slums, traffic problems, prospering business on pavements, problems of development controls, trees in towns -- planning standards, people's participation in planning, bureaucracy v/s technocracy, case for a national urbanization policy, population explosion, urbanization in Kerala state