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Rapid urbanization and sustainable development do not go together. Discuss with arguments.

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  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India counted 377 million urban residents at Census 2011 and has since been adding towns faster than it adds urban government. The proposition must be tested not against the city in the abstract but against the way Indian cities actually grow. Radhakamal Mukerjee, who brought social ecology into Indian sociology, held that a settlement endures…

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  • The case against it
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