Sustainable Development Goals and Indian Cities: Inclusion, Diversity and Citizen Rights

1. Introduction: Sustainable Development Goals, new urban agenda, and climate change by Ashok Kumar p.1, PART I: Sustainable development, climate risk and resilience p.43, 2. Climate risk and resilience of Indian cities by Anjana Devanand, Subimal Ghosh, and Pradipta Banerji p.45, 3. Indian cities on the ladder of sustainable development: what can make it a success story? by Rajasree Ray p.63, PART II: Rights, diversity, inclusivity, and quality p.43, 4. What is right for the city or right to the city: criticality of citizenship and governance by M. Satish Kumar p.85, 5. Cities and the dilemmas of diversity by Suzanne Speak and Ashok Kumar p.104, 6. New empirically driven approaches to inclusive human development in cities by Luis M.A. Bettencourt p.119, 7. Judging the quality of urbanisation in cities and towns of India by Arup Mitra and Jay Prakash Nagar p.137, PART III: Housing and shelter p.161, 8. Incongruence between housing policy intentions and housing needs by Ashok Kumar p.163, 9. Universal access to shelter in Indian cities by P.S.N. Rao p.189, PART IV: Carers of Indian cities p.201, 10. Mapping India's urban planners by Sanjeev Vidyarthi and Ashok Kumar p.203, PART V: Interconnections and interdependencies p.229, 11. Epilogue: our interconnected and interdependent future in the world of pandemics by Ashok Kumar p.231