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This is the third set of volumes in the well known series entitled Concepts Inter-national Series in Geography. This multi-volume set has a wide coverage under the title Perspectives in Urban Geography. The earlier two sets in the series were: Perspectives in Agricultural Geography and Perspectives in Geomorphology. Traditional studies on aspects of Urban Geography had been concentrating on observational records of developments of towns and cities till the subject came to acquire a behavioural approach recently. What resulted was a new matrix of philosophies, methodologies and their ingenious application to what had been researched through the years. The present set of volumes ventures to make a rigorous survey of the literature on Urban Geography after its reorientation as it were. Housing, through the role of politics and pubic consciousness, is one of the key problems which link both material and social aspects of the city. In the present day situation housing assumes complex dimensions in terms of its economic, social, political and legal framework so as no single discipline can claim monopoly of knowledge. In this volume on Cities and Housing all vital factors, technological, social, environmental and those connected with typical designs for living, have been surveyed by experts in different fields. About the Author C.S. YADAV (b. 1942) received his post-graduate and doctoral degrees from the Delhi School of Economics. He had participated in the UNESCO seminar on The Teaching of Geography in South-East Asia held in December 1974 and has also contributed a paper on Uneven Development of The World for a UNESCO publication. He has attended and presented papers in International Conferences. He has been invited to attend an international symposium on urban modeling held in Waterloo University (Canada) in 1982. He had also attended and International Conference on Asian Urbanisation held in Akron University (U.S.A.) in 1985 and presented a paper on Process of Migration and Urbanisation in India. He is keenly interested in urban problems and is at present engaged in studies on slums and cognitive image of The Delhi City. Currently he is a Reader in Geography at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi.