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Examine the problems of peri-urbanisation in India.

  • 15 marks
  • Settlements

The question presupposes that peri-urbanisation is a phenomenon with identifiable problems; the more uncomfortable truth is that in India it is not a deviation from urban planning but its default mode. Peri-urban areas are the rural–urban fringe — a belt of transitional land use where the city spills into the village, livelihoods mix, and governance…

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  • What Peri-urbanisation in India Actually Is
  • How the Peri-urban Fringe Is Manufactured
  • The Problems of Peri-urbanisation
  • 1. Unplanned land-use change and speculative land markets
  • 2. Environmental degradation at the ecological frontier
  • 3. Infrastructure deficit and the "pseudo-urban" condition
  • …and 11 more sections, with a conclusion

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