Urban geography and scaling of contemporary Indian cities.

ABSTRACT: This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographical analysis over a set of diverse indicators. We use data of urban agglomerations in India from the Census 2011 and from a few other sources to characterize patterns of urban population density, infrastructure, urban services, crime and technological innovation. Many of the results are in line with expectations from urban theory and with the behaviour of analogous quantities in other urban systems in both high and middle-income nations. India is a continental scale, fast developing urban system, and consequently there are also a number of interesting exceptions and surprises related to both particular quantities and strong regional patter

SUBMITTER: Sahasranaman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451395 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature