The book provides a succinct history of global urbanization, prospects, patterns, population growth, level and current trends. It also discusses urbain infrastructure, basic amenities and challenges of urbanization. The final chapter of the book are the chapter that talk about India and in particular Rajasthan where sustainable urbanization required an extraordinary care for its existing and growing population.
The book has been designed to cater to the needs of the students, teacher, the town planners and anyone who is interest in knowing and understanding the basic nuances of the topic.

Dr. Rashmi Jaiswal is a Post graduate in Economics and Management. She received her doctoral degree in Economics from Mohanlal Sukhadia University in 2002. She has a very rich academic and research experience. She has been teaching Economics in University college of Social Science and Humanities, Udaipur for the last eleven years. She is also actively involved with the teaching assignments of the Department of Library and Information Sciences of UCSSH, Mohanlal Sukhadia University (Rajasthan) for the last four years. At present, she is also associated with the Adsum Pedagogy Institute, Udaipur (Rajasthan) as a teaching faculty. She has attended and presented her research papers in National Level Seminars and Conference. She regularly publishes her research papers in the national journals of high repute.