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Provide a reasoned account on emerging conurbations in India and explain with suitable examples the problems associated with it.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Settlements

Patrick Geddes coined conurbation in 1915, from the fused industrial districts of Lancashire and Clydeside, for formerly separate towns grown together into a continuous built-up region with no single dominant centre.

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