Urban Growth in Nepal: Does Location Matter?

Boris A. Portnov, Madhav Adhikari and Moshe Schwartz
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Boris A. Portnov: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905, portnov@nrem.haifa.ac.il
Madhav Adhikari: Geomatics Nepal, PO Box 3873, Kathmandu, Nepal, geomatics@enet.com.np
Moshe Schwartz: Social Studies Unit, Department of Man in the Desert, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84990, Israel, moshesc@bgu.ac.il

Urban Studies, 2007, vol. 44, issue 5-6, 915-937

Abstract: Between 1952 and 2001, the number of urban settlements in Nepal grew from 10 to 58, while their share in the country's population increased from 2.6 to 14.4 per cent. However, the spatial distribution of urban growth was uneven. To find out how this unevenness was structured, a GIS-assisted analysis matched spatial reference data (such as distances between individual municipalities and major rivers, roads, international borders and major population centres) against several socioeconomic performance indexes, such as annual population growth, per capita income and expenditures of local municipalities, telephone ownership, number of primary schools and number of industrial plants. The fastest-growing urban localities were found to be close to major population centres, to highways and to the Indian border. The rest exhibited poor socioeconomic performance.

Date: 2007
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