Definitions
According S K Sharma : the Urban Management can be described as the set of activities which together shape and guide the social, physical and economic development of urban areas. The main concern of urban management, then, would be intervention in these areas to promote economic development and wellbeing and to ensure necessary provision of essential services.17
According to Ronald McGill : urban management is seemed to have a twin objective: •first to plan for, provide and maintain a city’s infrastructure and services •second to make sure that the city’s government is in a fit state, organizationally and financially, to ensure that provision and maintenance.
Urban Management is essentially comprises systematic linking of guidelines and strategies with scarce resources (time, money, personnel, law, land) by means of spatial and/or thematic action programmes.
The main tools of urban management are medium-term investment and budget planning, assistance programmes and agreements, and a cross-cutting medium and long-term management system for land, infrastructure and planning to ensure timely creation of the planning-law and infrastructural conditions for projects of importance to urban development policy.
Scope of URBAN MANAGEMENT
i) Planning, implementation, monitoring of urban infrastructure and services. Effective and efficient delivery of urban services to raise the quality to living of people residing in urban areas.
ii) Effective and efficient management of projects and programmes for achievement of urban development goals.
iii) Promotion of intersectoral coordination in the urban sector. Coordination with the health, public health, education, women and child welfare, etc. for the holistic urban development.
iv) Promote community participation and involve NGOs and civil society organizations in the effective provision and management of urban services.
v) Enhance the capability of Urban Local Bodies and Urban Institution in carrying out the duties and responsibilities entrusted to them under the 74th constitution amendment (India).
vi) Strengthen urban administration and governance to deal with various problems associated to urban development.
vii) Effectively implement urban policies for enhancing contribution of both formal and informal sectors towards urban development
Sectors of URBAN MANAGEMENT
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