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1. Yamamura, Etsuo with A. M. Thirumurthy, "Urban Systems Model with Refernce to Essential Environmental Facilities of Developing Country"

Type:
Document
Date Created:
1991
Collection:
System Dynamic Society Records
Collecting Area:
University Archives
Collection ID:
ua435
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Urban management in the developing world has been snarled in the tangle of urban complexities. Phenomenal population growth, heightened urban poverty, insufficient essential environmental stock,over utilization of the meager facilities and consequent deteriorating living environment, escalating public welfare and protection cost, persistent financial constraints due to inadequate revenue, non-objective orientation of urban development programs, in efficient urban management system and chaotic social-political fabric are the common features faced by the urban areas of many developing countries.Particularly in the case of the developing world it becomes important to understand the trade off between urban pressure and strive to find analytical tools which could separate feasible improvements from Utopian failures to reduce the widening gap between planning and management.When the factors relating to the area of engineering and economics are combined with social factors, the System Dynamics approach is the most valuable tool.It is within this context an attempt has been made to in this study to formulate an analytical tool which could address the problems of population, economic activity, essential environmental facilities and the urban development programs needed to redress the situation prevailing in the urban area of a developing country.Towards this end, an attempt is made to formulate an urban development model and application to Madras city of India to asses the functional validity of model.