On behalf of the Center for South Asia Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, we are very pleased to invite you to a 2-day conference on urbanization in India titled:
The "urban" economy plays an increasingly vital role in India's economic development. This workshop/conference seeks to address many critical questions relating to the effective and equitable functioning of the economy of Indian towns, cities and metros. We expect to analyze real estate markets, agglomeration economies, new modes of urbanization and structural problems of urban governance. Discussions will focus on ways to help promote sound policies for a developed urban infrastructure, growth in job creation, increased access to affordable housing, developing transparent mechanisms of governance, generating new sources of urban finance, and constructing viable social welfare systems for the urban poor.
While the focus of this third Berkeley conference on Indian cities is on economic issues, we encourage speakers and participants to address, if they so desire, the sorts of social and political issues that need to be considered as we seek to make Indian towns, cities and metros vibrant, both in the economic, as well as social spheres.
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University of California at Berkeley
Indian Institute for Human Settlements
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Other Institutions
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Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Center for South Asia Studies (CSAS) supports teaching, research, and outreach activities relating to South Asia at UC Berkeley. The only US Department of Education-funded National Resource Center for South Asia in California, CSAS is committed to enhancing knowledge of the region among students, academics, and the public at large. UC Berkeley has been a premier site for the study of South Asia in general, and India in particular, for the past century (Sanskrit courses date back to 1906). With over 40 faculty members conducting research in the area of South Asia studies, Berkeley offers 85 to 120 courses with significant India content every semester, and instruction in over six Indian languages. The University of California, Berkeley, is recognized as one of the top universities in the United States and was recently ranked as the second greatest university in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. IIHS is India’s first prospective independently funded and managed inter-disciplinary National University for Research and Innovation that focuses on its ongoing urban and development transformation. It is a first-of-its-kind, practice and innovation-oriented knowledge institution that seeks to bridge the conventional excellence, scale and inclusion divide.