Urban Regional Identity and Traits: Delhi and its Peripheral Region Debnath Mookherjee* Manie (H.S.) Geyer** Eugene Hoerauf* IGU Urban Geography Commission Canterbury UK Christ Church University August 14-20, 2011 *Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA ** Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
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Urban Regional Identity and Traits: Delhi and its Peripheral Region
Debnath Mookherjee* Manie (H.S.) Geyer**
Eugene Hoerauf*
IGU Urban Geography CommissionCanterbury UK
Christ Church UniversityAugust 14-20, 2011
*Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA ** Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
Conceptual Background
• Core/Periphery – The Semantics of Peripheral Relevance
• Dimensions –Spatial / Aspatial• The Centricity Continuum – From Monocentric to
Research Focus • Primary Research Focus in Literature:
Resources, Management, Directions of Growth, Carrying Capacity, Infra-Structural Stress
• Focus of Our Study: To Observe the Settlement Patterns in the Peripheral Region of the NCR from the Perspective of some Morphological Elements of Polycentric Development as a Baseline Prior to the 2011 Census Reports.
References: Ahmed & Choi (2011), Bhandari et al (2007), Jain et al (2011), Banerjee (1996), Mookherjee & Geyer (2011)
Research Focus (Contd.)• Study Design:
-- The Spatial Entity: The National Capital Region (Core and Periphery)
-- The Data Set: Census data—Demographic (Population), Economic (Workers), Spatial (Distance from the Core)
-- Urban Settlements: Centers of 20,000 and Over Population Size
-- Descriptive Statistics: Core-Periphery Differentials of Population and Occupational Growth Rates, Size and Distance Patterns
Growth Rates Main Workers: Delhi Core and Peripheral Centers, 1991-2001
Growth Rates Other Workers: Delhi Core and Peripheral Centers, 1991-2001
Loni
(NP)
Behta
Haji
pur (
CT)
Bhiwad
i (CT)
Ghazia
bad
(M C
orp.
)
Bahad
urga
rh (M
Cl )
Noida
(CT)
Dadri
(MB)
Farida
bad
(M C
orp.
)
Palwal
(M C
l )
Sohna
(MC)
Mur
adna
gar (
MB)
Samalk
ha (M
C)
Hodal
(MC)
Sonipa
t (M
Cl)
Gohan
a (M
C)
Delhi C
ore
(NCTD)
0
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100
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Chart Title
Other Workers
Growth Rates Household Workers: Delhi Core and Peripheral Centers, 1991-2001
Loni
(NP)
Behta
Haji
pur (
CT)
Bhiwad
i (CT)
Ghazia
bad
(M C
orp.
)
Bahad
urga
rh (M
Cl )
Noida
(CT)
Dadri
(MB)
Farida
bad
(M C
orp.
)
Palwal
(M C
l )
Sohna
(MC)
Mur
adna
gar (
MB)
Samalk
ha (M
C)
Hodal
(MC)
Sonipa
t (M
Cl)
Gohan
a (M
C)
Delhi C
ore
(NCTD)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
Chart Title
Household Workers
Findings• Cities and Towns were concentrated within the
40 km contour line from the NCT-Delhi core
• About one-third of Urban Centers (n=51) with growth rates exceeding Delhi core growth were located within the 20 km contour line.
• Six of these Centers appear to form a Node around Ghaziabad – a large city of nearly one million population
• Distribution of the centers also varied per the state’s developmental status.
Findings (contd.)• Majority of the cities and towns in UP grew at a
very moderate pace; some showed negative growth.
• A cluster of six centers with Ghaziabad as the node in the east appear to be emerging.
• An elongated corridor-like zone of four centers extending northward from Sonipat is
noticeable. • These zones may evolve into some forms of
polycentric urban regions.
Concluding Remarks• We have to remember that this has been a glimpse
backward at the settlement status a decade ago. Only the new census data can offer us current information.
• Our observations clearly point to a trend in spatial development in the NCR at the peripheral region
of Delhi.• The trend: a predominantly higher growth rates of
population and workers at the immediate periphery of Delhi that far surpassed the growth rates of the core.
• However, such a trend, while encouraging, is not impressive.
Concluding Remarks (Contd.)
• We further detected a possible shaping of future spatial forms in the distribution of urban centers—a
‘node’ in the east and a ‘corridor’ in the north-west.
• These are among the rapidly growing centers that may be the ‘incubators’ of regional growth in the future
• Above patterns may result partly from NCR policies
• It can also be argued that in view of the wide diversity within the NCR and the influence of the Delhi core, such a trend could be inevitable and may have emerged independently.
• Answers to such queries must await new data.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank ~
• Stephan Freelan, GIS Specialist, WWU, for drawing some of the illustrations; and,
• Jonah White, Graduate Student at WWU, for initial compilation of some Census data.