This has promoted the influx of population from small towns and rural areas to big cities leading to the proliferation of squatters and slums, growth of informal sector and acute pressure on basic urban amenities. This would culminate in the poor city governance and the urbanization of poverty. ...
Rapid urban development and increasing land use changes due to increasing population and economic growth in selected landscapes is being witnessed of late in India and other developing countries. The measurement and monitoring of these land use changes are crucial to understand land use cover dynamics...
Basic amenities in urban India: Analysis at state and town level (Working Paper WPS 616). Indian Institute of Management. Google Scholar Shaw, A. (2003b). Urban growth, basic amenities and waste management in India. In R. Sengupta & A. Sinha (Eds.), Challenge of sustainable development...
000 villages.’ Though that may at one time have been true, it is no longer the case. With about 30 country bumpkins moving lock, stock and barrel every minute from Indian villages to become city dwellers, not many villages will be left in India by the end of this century....
Further, the data indicates a dispersed pattern of in situ urbanisation, with the reluctance of state policy to recognise new statutory towns partly responsible for the growth of new CTs. A growing share of India's urban population, living in these CTs, is being governed under the rural ...
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BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO The road to growth: In transportation, India will require 350 to 400 km of new subway lines annually (more than 20 times the subway capacity built over the last decade) and between 19,000 and 25,000 km of roads (nearly equivalent to the amount India has built over ...
By 2030, the world's urban population will grow by 1.4 billion to reach 5 billion, with China and India at the forefront of the urbanisation wave. China will account for 20 percent, or 276 million people, of the increase in the global urban population between 2011 and 2030, while India ...
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As the process of structural remodelling gains strength in these cities, communities are caught between contrasting elements; issues of space management, resource ownership, income gaps, and growth-ecology fracas. This paper is an attempt to study the development process in these two cities, problems...