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Account for the multiple problems of urban agglomerations.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Settlements

An urban agglomeration (UA) is a continuous urban spread — a core town with its contiguous outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns with their outgrowths, forming one urban unit, at least one constituent being a statutory town.

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  • One city functionally, many cities administratively
  • The generating mechanism: functional scale exceeds jurisdictional scale
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  • Infrastructure severed at the seams
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  • Land and housing
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