Increasing urbanisation and
industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover
and agricultural land in South Asia. Various land uses compete with each other,
reducing forests and farmlands. This book addresses urbanisation and peri-urban
land markets, with a special focus on Bangalore, one of the fastest growing
cities in South Asia.
It contributes to historic
perspectives on the spatial transformation of peri-urban locales, as well as
providing much-needed empirical evidence. The book discusses issues related to
the context of peri-urban land use, land transactions, demand supply relationships
and land prices in the peri-urban land market. The steep rise in land prices of
the periphery, rapid changes in land use patterns, active land transactions,
growth of the real estate market and the challenge to implement efficient land
use regulations are explored with the help of field evidence. Insights and
challenges to land administration addressed in this book are common to other
metropolitan cities, and the key message is that a separate peri-urban land
policy is required for the major metropolitan cities of India and other
developing countries. The book contributes to the understanding of how these
spatial markets function in order to work towards an improved implementation of
land policy in the context of dynamic rural-urban periphery.
As such, it will appeal to
researchers, scholars and students of regional, urban and agricultural
economics, economic geography, urban and regional planning and environmental
science. It will also be of great interest to city planners and policy makers, action-based
think tanks focused on urban governance.
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