Indian Cities or Suburbs? : Trends and Causes of Suburbanization

Seetharam Sridhar, Kala

Oxford University Press（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 382 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198958116
• DDC分類 330.91732

Full Description

Despite the focus on urbanization as an important theme, the suburbanization of India has received relatively less attention. Indian Cities or Suburbs? is the first comprehensive work on suburbanization in India, exploring its complex dynamics in Indian cities. It addresses critical research questions regarding the suburbanization of individuals, households, and employment, examining regional variations, contributing factors, and resultant impacts. Utilizing granular data from the Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL) at the sub-kilometre grid level for a hundred Indian cities, Kala demonstrates the applicability of the downward-sloping population density function to India's urban context. The findings reveal that as of 2015, India's population was predominantly suburban (82%) compared to urban (33%). Southern and urbanized states exhibit greater sprawl relative to the national average, whereas slow-growing states are more compact. Employment decentralization surpasses population suburbanization, with half of all jobs concentrated within a five-kilometre radius of the urban core. The book also underscores the negative environmental impacts of sprawl, including challenges in the provision of essential services such as water supply, healthcare, education, and air quality maintenance.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction and Existing Studies Chapter 2: Research Questions, Theoretical Framework, and Methods Chapter 3: Have India's Population and Households Suburbanized? Chapter 4: Regional Variations in Population Suburbanization Chapter 5: Have India's Jobs Suburbanized? Chapter 6: Explaining India's Suburbanization of Population Chapter 7: Qualitative Perceptions of Suburbanization Chapter 8: What are the Outcomes of Suburbanization? Appendix