Article
The role of road infrastructure and air pollution in the recent suburbanization of India's cities: An exploration
Environment and Urbanization ASIA
(2017)
Abstract
This article re-examines the suburbanization of Indian cities by calculating population density gradients, for a large number of urban agglomerations, using recent data and Mills’ two-point method. In the next step, we estimate multiple regression models to explore the determinants of suburbanization. This study presents several methodological advances over previous research, by incorporating new measures of transport infrastructure, air pollution and city–suburb income ratios as determinants of suburbanization of Indian cities. Our results clearly show that suburbanization is higher in urban areas with higher population and lower central city–suburban literacy ratios. We find some evidence that suburbanization is higher in urban areas with more road transport infrastructure, consistent with our expectations, though results concerning air pollution run counter to expectations. However, these could relate to caveats regarding the data and methods.
Keywords
- Suburbanization—India’s cities,
- population density gradients—Indian cities,
- population density gradient regressions—Indian cities,
- road transport—Indian cities’ suburbanization,
- air pollution—Indian cities’ suburbanization
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 19, 2017
DOI
10.1177/0975425317714902
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Citation Information
Matthew J. Holian and Kala S. Sridhar. "The role of road infrastructure and air pollution in the recent suburbanization of India's cities: An exploration" Environment and Urbanization ASIA Vol. 8 Iss. 2 (2017) p. 151 - 169 ISSN: 0975-4253 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/matthew_holian/18/