International Division of Labour and Regional Development

The main aim of the present study is to analyse the urban structure, process, spatial mobility and linkage patterns of a medium sized city. The study takes into account the views of Dickinson’s City-region concept, Berry’s Spatial Behavioural Patterns and Smailes’s Urban Structure. The book attempt to synthesize the detailed descriptive account of the urban land-use functions and their dynamic features, general characteristics of economic flow patterns and movement patterns as a whole. Making a discreet use of quantitative methods, the study aims at an understanding of the urban landscape of Nasik city and its functioning in the city system of north-west Maharashtra. The city has also been compared with similar sized cities of India in terms of their urban attributes. The Union government’s plan to develop 200 medium sized towns (with a population of a lakh and above), which will act as a counter magnet and stem the flow of migrants to metropolitan cities, is not new. The present study was undertaken when the plan was first mooted a couple of years ago as a potential solution for releasing the pressure on the rapidly growing Bombay metropolis. This book will be useful to planners, administrators, entrepreneurs, social scientists, and researchers engaged in urban management.