Mani Peri

This book is about the dialogues and negotiations underway in many peri-urban cities in the South to address these conflicts. It shows how people and communities without good access ...

The numbers would look even larger if we were to include many peri-urban villages that the census persists in classifying as rural. Some 200 million people or so will have to shift ...

Or rather, our narrow interpretation of 'urban' areas means that many peri-urban areas — with their unique set of policy challenges — get thrown into the rural bucket.

Bangalore has grown so large over the past decade that many peri-urban South-Western Railway stations are now within the greater Bangalore region.

For example, construction of latrines or conventional sewers is much more difficult in the congested narrow streets and alleys of many peri-urban settlements.