Emerging Megalopolis: Bangalore, From ‘Boiled Beans’ Town to Advanced IT City

Gundappa Sastry

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Abstract: Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome of any city planning exercise or planned vision of its development. Such an ad-hoc growth pattern was affordable to Bangalore then, as the city had neither population nor land pressure. However, the replication of this historical pattern of urban spread is certainly not feasible in the current context of sharply intensifying land and population pressure.

Keywords: city spread; Bangalore; Bengalooru; land pressure; peri-urban centres; city planning; city water supply; Urban Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12
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