Dynamics of suburbanization and influence of National Capital Territory of Delhi on towns
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Dynamics of suburbanization and influence of National Capital Territory of Delhi on towns Chandra Prakash Morya . Mehram Ram
Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract A policy of urban decentralisation, limiting or discouraging the growth of population, has been commonly adopted for spatial planning in developing countries over the past decades. Delhi is in a transition stage and sprawling over the years to nearby periphery towns, but NCT Delhi’s urban influence decreases with the increasing distance from the core. Delhi’s urbanization process highly influences the towns within a radius of 50 km from the core. Some Towns located beyond 100 km of radius are also experiencing high growth of urban population because they are the nodal points surrounding the rural hinterland. The later decades of urban development in NCR Delhi led to a high rate of population growth because of the improved employment growth and other economic opportunities that came as a result of inflow of capital and investment to the region. On the other hand, decentralization of employment, urban growth, coupled with the services and housing supply promotes the growth of main and small urban centres in the periphery which is further boosted by a good transport
C. P. Morya (&) Department of Geography, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India e-mail: [email protected] M. Ram Centre for the Study of Reginal Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India e-mail: [email protected]
network, connecting and integrating the National Capital Region. Delhi is experiencing declining growth of population and on the other hand, periphery towns are getting boosted by the urban growth. Keywords Suburbanization NCT Delhi Urban influence Gurgaon
Introduction In the developing world, the contemporary trend of urbanization is significantly changing the socio-economic condition of the community living in the peripheral area of the core city. The high density of population in the cities beyond their civic capability and the rapid means of transportation are the main roots of the growth of the cities. The large scale growth of urban population, as well as economic output with unusual spatial growth of built-up areas, can be observed in the developing countries. The formation of new urban agglomerations and the development of suburbs is causing the decline of old city centres. During the mid-19th century, when the cost of moving goods and people within cities was high and urban areas were dense, high-income group people used to be concentrated at the core whereas low-income groups were drawn to come to the core for work from outskirt areas. Revolutionary changes started gaining the ground when streetcar, commuter railroads and
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finally automobiles developed. The tendency of the upper and middle class to live in the suburbs has been reinforced by transportation innovations and travel time considerations. Moreover, the falling cost of intra-urban transport fol
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