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- Gives a new approach of the study of land transformation in peri-urban interfaces.
- Show the urban population movements over decades in small north Indian cities and the implication of these movements.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story. There are evidences that urban growth is dispersed and urban sprawl promotes the spread of urban land use into the rural-urban fringe.
Here the attempt is to investigate the land transformation and the driving forces which were influencing the land transformation. The present study was done on peri urban interface of Aligarh city, a relatively small city, but as other north Indian cities, it is also expanding rapidly. Moreover, it too is surrounded by a populous rural area with productive and rich agricultural hinterland. Such conditions give rise to many conflicts and mutually beneficial complementarities in the rural and urban spheres.
The result shows that the demand for land is high which results in informal urban development fulfilling the requirements of many of the city’s residents. Every piece of land is a tradable commodity, and the pursuit of short-term profits is the predominant ethic. The actors in PUI are strong because it is characterized by intermixing of rural and urban activities and interests as well as the number of actors are greater than in any other area.
.Authors and Affiliations
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Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Shahab Fazal
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Land Use Dynamics in a Developing Economy
Book Subtitle: Regional Perspectives from India
Authors: Shahab Fazal
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5255-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5254-2Published: 11 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5255-9Published: 11 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 96
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Urbanism, Human Geography, Demography, Environmental Economics