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Examine the pattern of development of metropolitan cities in India.

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  • Settlements

The metropolitan city is the apex of India's urban system — by the 2011 census India held 53 million-plus urban agglomerations sheltering 42.6 per cent of the country's urban population — and the pattern of its development is the single best map of Indian urbanisation itself. That pattern is properly read at two scales. Temporally,…

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  • The temporal pattern: four phases of metropolitan formation
  • 1. The colonial phase (to 1947): the primate port metropolis
  • 2. Planned industrialisation (1947-1991): from five cities to a top-heavy hierarchy
  • 3. Liberalisation (1991-2011): metropolises become the growth engine
  • 4. The contemporary phase (2011-2027): corridor-led, polycentric, census-dependent
  • The spatial pattern of metropolitan development
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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