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Record Nr.

UNINA9910377833603321

Autore

Chatterjee Amit

Titolo

Satellite Towns in Neo-metropolitan Development in India : Lessons from Selected Cities / / by Amit Chatterjee, R. N. Chattopadhyay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-1502-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXI, 234 p. 87 illus., 83 illus. in color.)

Collana

Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, , 2198-2546

Disciplina

307.760954

Soggetti

Regional planning

Urban planning

Sustainable development

Political science

Human geography

Cultural heritage

Economic geography

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Sustainable Development

Governance and Government

Human Geography

Cultural Heritage

Economic Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Growth of Metropolises and Megacities with Focus on Global South -- Problems and Policies of Metropolitan Growth in India -- Satellite Town Development in Retrospect and Prospect -- Metropolitan Regions of India: Rapid Growth, Changing Landuse and Challenges -- Metropolitan City-Satellites-Fringe villages Relationship: Case Studies with Greater Mumbai, Bengaluru and its Region.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses population growth and the resultant problems, and highlights the need for immediate action to develop a set of planned satellite towns around Indian megacities to reduce their population densities and activity concentrations. It addresses problems like



unplanned spatial expansion, over-concentration of populations, unmanageable situations in industrial growth, and poor traffic management, concluding that only megacities and their satellites, when planned properly, can together mitigate the urgent problem of urban concentration in and around the megacities. Identifying the general problems, the book develops a quantitative and spatially fitting regional allocation model of population and economic activities. It also offers a policy-based planned program of development for the selected megacities in India along with their satellites and fringe areas to ensure a healthy, balanced and prospective urban scenario for India in the coming decades.