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Guidelines for rural centre planning

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Rst 02/07/24rnThe Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, at its thirty-second session in 1976, recognized the need for a study of the planning and development of rural settlements, including provisions for rural centres, and endorsed the preparation of guidelines for rural centre planning, and the organization of a meeting of a group of experts to finalize the document. In pursuance of that mandate, the ESCAP secretariat, with the financial and technical support of the Netherlands Government, made preparations for the implementation of the project. The services of DHV Consulting Engineers, the Netherlands, were made available to the secretariat for the drafting of the guidelines. A set of questionnaires was prepared early in 1977 by the consultants, in co-operation with the secretariat, and circulated to the coordinators designated by the Governments in selected countries of the region, with a view to obtaining information pertaining to development policy, rural settlements, transportation, community facilities and social amenties, etc. This was followed by the consultants’ visit to six countries in April/May 1977, namely, Afghanistan, India, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand. Responses to the questionnaires were received from the coordinators in Burma, India, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand. The information thus collected was analysed and co-ordinated, and an inception report on the proposed guidelines was produced in August 1977. The substantive chapters of the guidelines were finally completed in August 1978.rnrnThe guidelines were intended to guide the systematic planning of rural centres, and the aspects covered both policy making and programme planning for rural resources management. The publication would provide national officials and planners with a better understanding and appreciation of the problems involved in the planning of rural centres in the region.

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711.3 Gul g

Publisher

New York : UNITED NATIONS., 1979

Collation

366 pages

Language

English

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Classification

711.3

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Subject(s)

City planning

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