Urbanisation (Some basics) = 1-Urbanisation is basically the movement of population from rural to urban areas and the resulting increasing proportion of a population that resides in urban places. 2-Urbanisation is a two-way process because it involves not only movement from village to cities and change from agricultural occupation to business, trade, service and profession but also change in the migrant’s attitudes, beliefs, values and behaviour patterns. Facilities like education, healthcare, employment avenues, civic facilities and social welfare are the reasons that are attracting people to urban areas. 3- author Jeb Brugmann (2009) who truly defined ‘urbanism’ as “a way that builders, users and residents co-design, co-build, co-govern and combine their activities to support ways of production and living that develops their shared advantage.” India being a low-income economy, ‘urbanism’ should be the guiding philosophy. 4- In urbanism, the focus shifts from opportunistic development of individual plots, buildings and gated-settlements to community-disciplined development of wards and zones with specialised strategies to secure social and economic advantage in the city. The informal sector, that contributes over 75/80 per cent of urban employment, which is now in the periphery of urban planning, would be mainstreamed and be at the core of such forms of urbanism. 5- Urbanisation sans urbanism makes cities ‘brick & mortar real estate’ entities rather than vibrant human settlements. Hence the present disjointed and disoriented urban governance system that has been the bane of sustainable and equitable spatial planning and development. Cities and urban habitats being ‘engines of economic growth’ need vibrancy if democratic and participatory decision-making is to take place. For this to happen, the philosophy of urbanism should be accompanied by political thought that is democratic, decentralised and participatory.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:39:54 +0000
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