Urbanisation, Development and Environment India; C.D. Deshpande Memorial Volume

"The symbiotic relationship between urbanisation and development that had been obtained in the industrialised countries of the West, was not found to be replicated in case of developing countries because of the differential roles of the capitalist development. Spatial development pattern in these countries became uneven as also the pattern of urbanisation, evident in the differentials between core and periphery at various scales. Resultantly, large cities in such countries have become centres of population and economic activities as well as extractors of regional resources, but not foci of regional development. Environmental degradation has further surfaced as an associated element of such growth, both in urban and rural areas. In recent years operation of international capital has intensified the pattern further leading to extreme metropolitanisation and intra-regional disparity. It is in this backdrop the book analyses the complex pattern of urbanisation, development and the environmental situation primarily in India in longitudinal terms. It deals with the wide range of topics on economy, society and environment both at general and spatial scales, linking theoretical discussions with empirical analyses."