Changing Paradigm of Kerala’s Urbanisation Model with Special Reference to JNNURM at Eranakulam District
Keywords:
Urbanization, City Size, Rank Size, DistributionAbstract
City Expansion and Urbanization of Kerala has marked unique features. Due to the sea shore on the one side of Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram and Calicut, the size of the city expansion is like a half circle where as at Thrissur, Palakkad and Coimbatore is almost in a circular manner. Towards the centre of the city it is seen that the population density has an increasing tendency in other words we can say that all the cities have an outer expanding nature and this expansion is circular. The inter relation between the rank of the city and population is explained by Rank size rule. To analyze the concept, we have studied Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram city population (2001 and 2011) and tested the goodness of fit. The relevance of these years are to understand the effects of pre and post JNNURM. Researcher has also analyzed the urbanization and characteristics of the same based on these areas via JNNURM with respect to the size of the city, and distance from the urban center. The components initiated and implemented in Kochi through JNNURM with the facilitating upcoming projects like AMRUT have been studied. Further the landscape and resources of Cochin and Thiruvanthapuram have also been analyzed by evaluating the community consensus & socio economic viability.
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