Essay On Urban Settlement

The percent of urban area have increased from 11 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 2001 (Census, 2001). In the Census 2011, it shows more than 30 percent of urban area to the total land. According the World Bank projection, there will be more than 50 percent of Indian population living in urban areas. This exponential urban population growth is global scenario as well. With this rate of urbanization, the land availability and strategies of expansion in terms of various factor determining settlement structure needs to be analyzed in order to understand and predict the change of urban settlement structure on a long term.

The attributes of a region encourages economic activity in that region. The regions lacking these attributes lag behind in economic development. Thus, the attributes are generally defined spatially. These attributes can be categorised into four broad spatial determinants viz. socio-economic activity, infrastructure development, demographic profile and policy framework. The interrelationships between these determinants are quantified by many researches across the world. Change in one determinant affect the other and creates a chain of reaction in the course of time. This influence is not unidirectional. Defining this dynamic nature of a settlement structure shall help in realising the quality and quantity of intervention by various financial and administrative institutions. The manipulation of the spatial determinants shall

Many researches tried to understand the dynamics of the spatial factor of a development. Most of the research focuses on a key factor whereas other determinants are kept as exogeneity in the analysis. However, many studies have attempted to quantity the interrelationship between the determinants. In such studies, the author identifies the determinants for any spatial