Abstract
The paper analyses the implications of the new system of urban
governance in the context of the recent demographic trends and programmes
of urban development in Asian countries. It would go into the details
of the state and city level variations, based on Indian case study.
The analysis on India will examine the inter state variation in
urbanisation and urban growth during nineties, the period of structural
reform in the country, by relating these with the processes of socio-economic
development. It would compare and contrast the spatial pattern of
the nineties with the earlier decades. It will examine the phenomenon
of emergence of global centres and its impact on overall urban hierarchy.
The paper would overview the policies and programmes of decentralised
urban governance in different states and their impact on economic
base and quality of life in urban centres, belonging to different
size categories. The latest data from Population Census 2001, NSS
(55th Round) will be used for analysing the demographic and economic
base of cities and smaller towns. Hopefully, the data from 58th
Round of NSS, focussing on quality of micro environment and slums,
will be available. All these data will be analysed in the context
of access to basic amenities to the poor, focussing on smaller order
towns. An attempt will be made also to examine the process of segmentation
and exclusion of poor from formal colonies in the few global centres
of the country.
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