Growth of Indian Cities: Pace and Pattern in the Post-Reform Period

Author: Dr. Harleen Shergill

ISBN: 978-9393082572

Page Count: 180

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

About the Book:
dia being on the crossroads of transition, with fast growing urban population,makes analysing and understanding the growth of cities crucially pertinent.Somehow, growth of cities in India is an under researched theme, thus aptly leading to germination of the idea of this research monograph. This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of growth of cities in India, in the post economic reform period,when cities began to play a more important role as engines of economic growth.Over any period of time, cities of a country grow at very di erent rates, irrespective of the overall rate of growth of urban population. Assessing the variation in pace and pattern of growth of Indian cities, the book attempts to comprehend the spiralling journey of metropolitan cities, fast growing cities, the stagnating ones and the declining towns of India.To understand the process of growth of urban population more deeply, the economics of city size and city growth relationship is analysed, investigating the impact of initial city size on city growth rate in India. The optimum size of the city in modern economies, the rank-size rule, existence of primate cities and wide variations in size distribution of cities are various other aspects of city growth extensively researched in this study. The book also examines the impact of functional specialization on city growth and the crucial role of agglomeration economies and congestion costs as a determining factor in the growth of cities.