178 Sustainable Regional Development BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by: Zeeshan Ibrar, Architect and PhD Scholar School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Authored by: Vinita Yadav (Ed.), 2020 Published by: Studera Press, New Delhi The book titled ‘Sustainable Regional Development’ focuses on several regional case studies across India in light of existing sustainability challenges. Defining the ‘region’ as a planning unit based on specific spatial hierarchies and functional characteristics, the book both traces its significance for planners and development professionals in the context of case studies related to contract farming, industrialization, corridor development and heritage based development etc. in the domains of importance for regional development Jovovic et al. (2017) cite the three main aspects of regional sustainability as being economic, environmental, and social, all of which have been captured in the book. The book is broadly divided into four parts. The first part of the book deals with regional integration concepts such as land reform policy, time-pressure analogy, heritage re-development, industrial corridor development, and water-stressed planning and how these are managed within the selected case studies. The second part of the book discusses the role of small and medium sized towns (SMTs) as it serves as a node to provide services to the villages dependent upon them and on large sized towns for access to higher order facilities in the context of regional development. The SMTs provides the diversification of rural economy by providing market facilities and services to the rural populations. The third part of the book analyses the planning of disaster resilient regions and develops a disaster resilient framework at a metropolitan region, district, block and village level. The last part of the book debates the future prospects of smart technological tools and solutions for infrastructure and governance into planning and provides analytical and policy tools for charting the way forward in terms of development at the regional scale.