Gap Analysis of Pune City’s Urban Infrastructure—Issues in Sustaining the Sprawl

Mona N. Shah () and Shekhar Nagargoje ()
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Mona N. Shah: National Institute of Construction Management and Research
Shekhar Nagargoje: National Institute of Construction Management and Research

Chapter Chapter 9 in Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, 2015, pp 87-102 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 2008, Pune became the seventh metro (mega) city of India, based on a study carried out on eight parameters namely social infrastructure, infrastructure availability, real estate cost and availability, transportation facility (connectivity), presence of quality educational institutes, employment opportunity, facility of financial services and business environment (Assocham, Report: the 7th emerging metro city in India, 2008). Pune has high literacy rates of 80.73 %, skilled population, seven universities, huge clusters of automobile and manufacturing, IT, biotechnology, and establishments. Prominent industrial bases and corporate headquarters are located in Pune. The most critical and important public and governmental establishments, factories, defence, research and development etc. are present in this city. Problems of Pune city are numerous in providing for social and physical infrastructure. Using the Gap Analysis technique, the paper looks at the existing gaps in the provision of key urban services in the peripheral areas of the sprawl.

Keywords: Sustainable; Urbanisation; Urban infrastructure; Gap analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46994-1_9

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