Zone of Influence of Cities: Random Analysis of Rural Periphery of Mumbai and Bangalore

By : Surya Tewari

Page No: 256-277

Abstract
The paper is an attempt to understand the influence of urban area on its rural periphery using the random sampling method. Though the study of urban influence has been taken up by geographers for long, it is based on voluminous sets of data. The paper uses two random axes and records the village data of all the villages falling on these axes. This model is used to bring out the characteristics of rural periphery of Mumbai and Bangalore during the 1991 and 2001 census years. The two census years have been chosen so as to capture the nuances of the New Economic Policy that was introduced in 1991. This method avoids the use of large sets of data in delineating and understanding the fringe attributes. Data has been procured from Census of India. While a pair of random numbers is used in drawing random axes using the systematic sampling method, scatter diagrams have been constructed to analyse the rural periphery. The paper contributes to the theory and practice of urban fringe management.

Author :
Surya Tewari : Assistant Professor, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi – 110070.
 

DOI: ttps://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2019.39.02.7