URBAN PLANNING IN INDIA 67 17 Biswaroop Das, Residential Mobility Pattern in Two Selected Localities of Delhi (unpublished paper submitted towards part fulfilment of Master's degree in Human Geography), University of Delhi, Department of Human Geography, 1974. 18 Burgess's theory known as Concentric Zone Theory was published in 1924 but was reprinted and made more widely known in R E Park, E N Burgess and RD McKenzie, The City, Chicago, 1925. 19 H Hoyt, The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighbourhoods in American Cities, Washington, 1939. V^'^^ffift^ te4\^P ^Ullman, "Th? Nature of Cities", reprinted in H M Mayor and C F Kohn, Readings in Urban Geography, Chicago, 1959. 21 For more details on theories of urban structure, also see, AH Hawley, Human Ecology: A Theory ofCommunity Structure, New York, 1950, Chapter 14, and C C Colby, "Centripetal Forces in Urban Geography", Annals of the Association of American Geographers (AAAG), Vol 23, 1933. 22 "The majority of the slum dwellers, the denizens of its shanties are not the 'feckless', the 'beggarly' and the 'lumpen'. In Bombay, for example, 60-65% of slum dwellers are workers—the backbone of Indian economy", PK. Kunte, Minister for Housing, in Maharahtra, in Samachar, 13 August 1976. ^d ^m^WMn^ ^/i^^^y^^i^^Wa^We^rri^yn^^^ in this miP^^A^^^^^^ .pfans approach slum removal witu the objective of erasing ther'^slum condii-^^fC^a^^m^^^^^^^ iMerf^ut^:1.^1^ ^Pse^a^ft ^o mf^^m x^w^wMm^w a^sU'af^w ^^mw'^ni^^^sw ^ltDaS^ilxIfca^fJtq^qouild ber-itoyrcf^rfotrraiuty adTremb^osfiubw^l-QferpIj'fc^utlW ^rftf ^Li?^OB^Pi prime Min^^rJy^!^^^^^ -of India, 29' January 1978. . Such statements ,make the meaning /of slum "^^feWrff'^ft^fca^wsaf^v^^^'^ nl mlt ^y^- •lw'^•M ^w^a^m^m^^ '^w^y a^^te?,1 i^o^w^9 1971. :(Z.-)UJ) M Ibid. Wsi^3iu^wfy,or