SLIDE 1
(Final Full Paper)
Trends of Spatio-Temporal Changes and Growth of Kolkata City, India: Evidences from Geospatial Analysis
Dinabandhu Mahata1, Ambarish Kumar Rai2 & Dr. Pralip Kumar Narzary3
- M. Phil. Student 1, PhD Research Scholar 2& Associate Professor 3
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai – 400088 Email: dinabandhumahata1991@gmail.com, ambarish.k.rai@gmail.com & pralipkn@gmail.com “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
- Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 1. Introduction:
In the present era, the growth of urban centres is a multidimensional spatial and population
- process. Cities and urban settlements have considered as centres of population focus owing to
they are specific economic and social features, which produce a vital component in the development of human societies (Dadras, Shafri, & Ahmad, 2015). Urban development is the process of emergence of the world dominated by cities and by urban values. To understand the distinction between the urban growth and urbanisation is crucial, because of the two most important processes of urban development. The urban growth is a process of spatial and demographic increment and the importance of towns and cities as a central accumulation of population within that particular economy and society. It occurs due to the transformation of the rural population living in primarily hamlet and village to the predominantly town and city
- dwelling. While, urbanisation, on the other hand, is a spatial and social process which refers
to the changes in behaviour and social relationships that occur in social dimensions as a result
- f people living in towns and cities. Mostly, it refers to the complex change of lifestyles
which follow from the impact of cities on society (Bhatta, Saraswati, & Bandyopadhyay, 2010). Urbanisation is the process and demographic explosion due to the rural-urban migration, expansion of the government services and Industrial revolution. The evidence of past two centuries shown the growth and development of the major cities and under these conditions the spatial influence and the growth of the space. In the most cases, over the passing of time, the functional structure has changed in rural regions and corresponding to that the changes come under the pattern of life of dwellers and resultant to that changes in the formation of new urban areas (Clark, 1982). Historically, urbanisation and rapid growth in cities first occurred in Western Europe, America, and Japan but has spread in the latter part of this century throughout Asia, South America, and Africa. Urban growth at the global scale shows no sign of slowing and is a phenomenon even in nations where population growth has stabilised (Clark, 2008). In India, rapid urbanisation began to accelerate after independence due to country divide, mixed economy and rapid growth of private sector. The level of urbanisation rapidly increased during the year 2001-2011. In 2001, India had 286 million of the urban population which shares of 28.6 percent of total and in 2011, it raised a level of 377 million of the population that holds the part of 31.18 percent of total and it was the first time
- f rapid urbanisation in India since the independence. At the state level, the urbanisation is