Abstract
Cultural awareness and inclusive city design increase urban health and well-being. Mesoscale urban planning studies have gotten less attention than macroscale ones, where urban forms are dense, diverse, and multilayered. This is particularly true in India. India’s economy ranks fifth in the world despite major differences in social stratification, built space quality, and infrastructure facilities. Per-capita income varies widely throughout the country. This study examines the urban typologies of three major municipalities on the southern fringe of the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Visual analysis and a reconnaissance survey of five urban typologies in the research regions are used to compare them. Ancient preliminary settlements near an old water body, slums along suburban railway networks and near older industries, industrial zones along rivers or on agricultural lands of urban fringes, and housing complexes in the outer peripheries or peri-urban areas of emerging urban centres facilitate urban growth and expansion. The results show that the population’s economic characteristics differ from those of the central city in uniqueness and diversity. These distinctions stem from the region’s strange social layers. Thus, the research examines KUA’s urban typologies and socioeconomic systems. Comparing them as they go out from the hub city is the main reason it resonates with regional spatial justice. Thus, the research helps policymakers, engineers, urban designers, and planners understand urban form circumstances in KUA’s environs and develop sustainable urban management policies, techniques, and initiatives. Planning and managing rising urban centres in developing countries with climatically susceptible and eco-sensitive zones will be easier.
Presenters
Tazyeen AlamResearch Scholar, RCGSIDM, Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, West Bengal, India
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Economic, Social, and Cultural Context
KEYWORDS
Land prices; Socioeconomic segregation; Spatial Justice; Urban typologies; Urbanization
