Spaces & Flows: Ninth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

Abstract

Whatever talks on urban city and design in advanced countries like USA, UK, Japan, Russia, etc. are a day dream in developing countries like in Nepal, where plan development has not been in good practice as required to accelerate economic growth rate and to improve standard of life. It is a fact that urbanization is invisibly and visibly on process in different parts of the country because of push and pulls factors as drivers of urbanization. However, these drivers are quite different with drivers of advanced countries. This paper investigates empirically and analytically whether household’s perspective is positive on such decision to push up economic growth and urban life, whether there are drivers to push and pull urbanization process, whether new municipalities are an alternative city development approach through secondary and primary data sets. The descriptive statistics and correlation tools are employed. In urbanization process, there are political driver and demographic factors as pull factors and administrative and development objectives as push factor, although there are not minimum requirements. In case of design, there is null and direction is still doldrums to future. Its impact on biodiversity and infrastructure are not positive in terms of conservation and development. Therefore, it needs more to be focused in the right direction.