BISHWAPRIYA SANYAL
Biographic Data
| ID | 5755584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | BISHWAPRIYA SANYAL |
| GIVEN NAMES | BISHWAPRIYA |
| FAMILY NAME | SANYAL |
| SIGNATURE | SANYAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planning as Anticipation of Resistance
This article argues that an inadvertent side effect of the current preoccupation with planning from below has been a lack of attention to public sector planning at the top, which remains a critical institutional mechanism for development. To be effective, however, public sector planners must anticipate institutional resistance to their efforts, particularly from within the state structure, and incorporate this understanding into the formulation a…
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
High Technology and Low-Income Communities
NGOs' Self-Defeating Quest for Autonomy
The current discussion about nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rests on the key assumptions that (1) to be effective, NGOs must be autonomous of both state and market institutions, and (2) NGOs' autonomy is best protected and nurtured by avoiding institutional linkages with state and market institutions. This article demonstrates that the quest for autonomy hurts the NGOs' effectiveness instead of strengthening it, particularly in the case of …
Education for Developing Areas
Antagonistic cooperation
Breaking the Boundaries
Knowledge transfer from poor to rich cities
Market and training
Poor Countries' Students in Rich Countries' Universities
Relevant planning education must take into account that we live in one world comprised of rich and poor nations who are now faced with a common crisis of economy and of ideas. The central purpose of con temporary planning education should be to sensitize students to the global dimension of this crisis and to build a consensus of ideas about ways of transcending it. This re quires that North American and in ternational students be brought to gethe…
Studies in Indian Urban Development
Other| August 01 1987 Studies in Indian Urban Development Edwin S. Mills and Charles M. Becker, Studies in Indian Urban Development, The World Bank: Washington, DC (1986). Bishwapriya Sanyal Bishwapriya Sanyal Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 124–125. https://do…
Urban Cultivation Amidst Modernization
Many African cities are currently marked by the decline of the formal urban economy and the simultaneous upsurge of household cultivation by the urban poor. This has generated two types of critical responses, though for very different reasons. The modernization proponents view urban cultivation as a manifestation of rural habits, predominantly relied upon by recent migrants lacking integration into the urban economy and culture. The New-Marxist c…
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
Antagonistic cooperation
Poor Countries' Students in Rich Countries' Universities
Relevant planning education must take into account that we live in one world comprised of rich and poor nations who are now faced with a common crisis of economy and of ideas. The central purpose of con temporary planning education should be to sensitize students to the global dimension of this crisis and to build a consensus of ideas about ways of transcending it. This re quires that North American and in ternational students be brought to gethe…
NGOs' Self-Defeating Quest for Autonomy
The current discussion about nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rests on the key assumptions that (1) to be effective, NGOs must be autonomous of both state and market institutions, and (2) NGOs' autonomy is best protected and nurtured by avoiding institutional linkages with state and market institutions. This article demonstrates that the quest for autonomy hurts the NGOs' effectiveness instead of strengthening it, particularly in the case of …
Urban Cultivation Amidst Modernization
Many African cities are currently marked by the decline of the formal urban economy and the simultaneous upsurge of household cultivation by the urban poor. This has generated two types of critical responses, though for very different reasons. The modernization proponents view urban cultivation as a manifestation of rural habits, predominantly relied upon by recent migrants lacking integration into the urban economy and culture. The New-Marxist c…
Planning as Anticipation of Resistance
This article argues that an inadvertent side effect of the current preoccupation with planning from below has been a lack of attention to public sector planning at the top, which remains a critical institutional mechanism for development. To be effective, however, public sector planners must anticipate institutional resistance to their efforts, particularly from within the state structure, and incorporate this understanding into the formulation a…
High Technology and Low-Income Communities
Knowledge transfer from poor to rich cities
Studies in Indian Urban Development
Other| August 01 1987 Studies in Indian Urban Development Edwin S. Mills and Charles M. Becker, Studies in Indian Urban Development, The World Bank: Washington, DC (1986). Bishwapriya Sanyal Bishwapriya Sanyal Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 124–125. https://do…
Studies in Indian Urban Development
Other| August 01 1987 Studies in Indian Urban Development Edwin S. Mills and Charles M. Becker, Studies in Indian Urban Development, The World Bank: Washington, DC (1986). Bishwapriya Sanyal Bishwapriya Sanyal Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 124–125. https://do…
Urban Cultivation Amidst Modernization
Many African cities are currently marked by the decline of the formal urban economy and the simultaneous upsurge of household cultivation by the urban poor. This has generated two types of critical responses, though for very different reasons. The modernization proponents view urban cultivation as a manifestation of rural habits, predominantly relied upon by recent migrants lacking integration into the urban economy and culture. The New-Marxist c…
Poor Countries' Students in Rich Countries' Universities
Relevant planning education must take into account that we live in one world comprised of rich and poor nations who are now faced with a common crisis of economy and of ideas. The central purpose of con temporary planning education should be to sensitize students to the global dimension of this crisis and to build a consensus of ideas about ways of transcending it. This re quires that North American and in ternational students be brought to gethe…
Breaking the Boundaries
Knowledge transfer from poor to rich cities
Market and training
Education for Developing Areas
Antagonistic cooperation
NGOs' Self-Defeating Quest for Autonomy
The current discussion about nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) rests on the key assumptions that (1) to be effective, NGOs must be autonomous of both state and market institutions, and (2) NGOs' autonomy is best protected and nurtured by avoiding institutional linkages with state and market institutions. This article demonstrates that the quest for autonomy hurts the NGOs' effectiveness instead of strengthening it, particularly in the case of …
High Technology and Low-Income Communities
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
Planning as Anticipation of Resistance
This article argues that an inadvertent side effect of the current preoccupation with planning from below has been a lack of attention to public sector planning at the top, which remains a critical institutional mechanism for development. To be effective, however, public sector planners must anticipate institutional resistance to their efforts, particularly from within the state structure, and incorporate this understanding into the formulation a…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)