Indian Cities Or Suburbs? - Trends and Causes of Suburbanization

Despite the focus on urbanization, suburbanization in India has received relatively less research attention. This is the first comprehensive work on this topic, exploring the dynamics, regional variations, and impacts of suburbanization using granular data from a hundred cities.

Sommario

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Existing Studies


• Chapter 2: Research Questions, Theoretical Framework, and Methods


• Chapter 3: Have India's Population and Households Suburbanized?


• Chapter 4: Regional Variations in Population Suburbanization


• Chapter 5: Have India's Jobs Suburbanized?


• Chapter 6: Explaining India's Suburbanization of Population


• Chapter 7: Qualitative Perceptions of Suburbanization


• Chapter 8: What are the Outcomes of Suburbanization?


• Appendix

Info autore

Kala Seetharam Sridhar is a Professor at the Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. She was a Visiting Scholar (during March-August 2024) and an Honorary Fellow (during June-August 2024) at Stanford University's Center for South Asia. She has visited George Mason University's Global South Hub in 2023 and the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research multiple times. As a Fulbright fellow, Kala was hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2021 and 2022. She has also conducted research for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and won national and international awards for her research on urbanization. Kala is one of the Managing Editors of the Journal of Social and Economic Development (Springer).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Kala (Professor Seetharam Sridhar
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.06.2025
• EAN: 9780198958116
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895811-6
• Pagine: 384
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, 21st Century, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Welfare economics, urban economics, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Development Economics, Development economics and emerging economies, Housing and homelessness, Homelessness, Regional / urban economics