Spatial Development Patterns of Railway Station Districts: An Application of Node-Place Model in Varanasi Urban Agglomeration

By : Iman Banerjee

Page No: 207-221

Abstract
Transit-oriented development is being largely proselytised in recent times as a notion for sustainable urban and regional development throughout the entire world. Well-recognition of land-use-transport feedback mechanism is visible in such planning notion, which advocates for integrated transport and land-use planning, as well as greater synergy between the efficiency of transit infrastructure and the intensity and diversity of land-use in respective transit station sites. Moreover, scrutinising such claims and further facilitating the notion of urban regeneration around transit hubs require a system of analysis as the initial thread towards more effective transit-oriented urban development. This paper makes reference to the Node-Place Model in order to examine the railway station districts of Varanasi Urban Agglomeration, with respect to their existing efficiency of transit infrasystem and land-use characteristics. This research is based on both the primary and secondary sources of information to assess the prevailing pattern of interaction between public transport and land-use in the select station districts (800 m. buffer zone around railway stations) of Varanasi Urban Agglomeration. The resulted discussion is expected to facilitate the spatial policymakers to plan for a better synergy between transport infrasystem (mainly railways) and land-use structure (intensity and diversity) for the respective sites.

Author :
Iman Banerjee : Doctoral Research Fellow (UGC), Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2023.43.01.14