Satellite Towns in Neo-metropolitan Development in India: Lessons from Selected Cities

This book discusses population growth and the resultant problems, and highlights the need for immediate action to develop a set of planned satellite towns around Indian megacities to reduce their population densities and activity concentrations. It addresses problems like unplanned spatial expansion, over-concentration of populations, unmanageable situations in industrial growth, and poor traffic management, concluding that only megacities and their satellites, when planned properly, can together mitigate the urgent problem of urban concentration in and around the megacities.

Identifying the general problems, the book develops a quantitative and spatially fitting regional allocation model of population and economic activities. It also offers a policy-based planned program of development for the selected megacities in India along with their satellites and fringe areas to ensure a healthy, balanced and prospective urban scenario for India in the coming decades.

Dr. Amit Chatterjee has extensive teaching, research and industry experience and is presently an assistant professor at the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India. His research is primarily focused on future cities and urban sustainability models. Dr. Chatterjee served the industry in various capacities and has had the experience for working for mega planning projects, including Navi Mumbai Special Economic Zone, Dholera town planning scheme, besides formulating the twin city development plan, highway projects in PPP mode, slum-free city planning under RAY across various cities in India. Dr. Chatterjee has completed successfully a number of international collaborative projects, including those on urban co-benefits (UNU, Japan), low carbon cities (British Council), urban biodiversity (UNU, Japan) and is currently involved in the projects “Shelter for All”, “National Rurban Mission” and "Development Plan of cantonment Area". Dr. Chatterjee had edited the peer-reviewed journal“SPANDREL” dedicated to the theme “Making Cities Smart and Competitive”. In addition to attending national and international seminars, Dr. Chatterjee contributes papers and reviews to reputed international journals in planning.