Push and Pull Factors of Urbanization in Nepal: Impacts on Household Perspectives

Abstract

Whatever talks on urban city and design in advanced countries like USA, UK, Japan, Russia, etc. is 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. Urbanization is invisibly and visibly happening in the 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 perspectives are positive on such decision to push up economic growth and urban life, whether there are drivers to push and pull urbanization process, whether new municipality is an alternative city development approach through secondary and primary data sets. Descriptive statistics and correlation tools are employed. In urbanization process, there are political drivers and demographic factors as pull factors and administrative and development objective as push factor, although there are not minimum requirements. In case of design, there is null and direction is still doldrums to future. Impact on biodiversity and infrastructure are not positive in terms of conservation and development. Therefore, we need more consideration to focus in the right direction.

Presenters

Raghu Bir Bista

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Social and Community Studies

KEYWORDS

URBANIZATION, CITY, BIODIVERSITY, INFRASTRUCTURE

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