Journey from a City to an Urban Village: A Study on India

Priyadarshini SEN1
1 DumDum Motijheel College, Department of Geography, Kolkata, INDIA
E-mail: priyadarshinigeo@gmail.com
Pages: 249-254

Abstract. At the end of the 20th Century, noticeable development in telecommunications and the ascendance of information industries led urban planners, analysts and the politicians to proclaim the end of cities and rise of suburbs. It was an obvious prediction that cities would become obsolete as the centres of economic activities-with large scale relocation of office spaces and industries to less congested and comparatively low-rent/cost areas than central cities to the suburbs. Such urban activities while entering the city region or the continuum transform it into a land of forking paths, from utopia to nightmares. Perhaps the only solution to this is adopting the deep ecology scenario that people should live and work locally, consume less space and share resources with their neighbours. The objective of this paper remains into the complete journey from the emergence of the city to the rise and expansion of the same into the peripheries and suggests the post modern views regarding the concept of urban village and how or whether it fits to the growing economies.

K e y w o r d s:  urban village, Bangalore, interaction fields, new towns, city region, urban planning