Development of a methodological framework for linking infrastructure provision with settlement system in Indian urban regions

在印度，有足够的证据表明城市化仅限于集中在某些大城市中心，这一点几乎是毋庸置疑的。在实现与提供基础设施相关的城市发展方面存在相当大的不确定性。特别是，拟议中的孤立项目(交通走廊和智慧城市)缺乏综合发展，对实现分布式城市化构成了重大挑战。在描述和解释去中心化在基础设施提供方面的有限成功的研究方面，仍然存在重大差距。这是由于缺乏空间数据，在城市和区域规划中缺乏空间方面(基础设施综合空间发展)。利用现有数据和简单的分析技术，该项目旨在提供一个全面的方法框架，将基础设施的提供与印度城市地区的城市发展联系起来。采取的循序渐进的经验方法利用两个空间层次将基础设施的提供与定居点系统联系起来。该项目结合了对国家一级城市发展的体制结构(城市管理和金融)和实际状况的彻底审查。对提供基础设施与大都市一级(主要城市+附属中心)的住区等级之间的联系进行了统计和空间上的精细分析。这一方法旨在以比较的方式捕捉基础设施提供对城市发展的影响，使用两个显著不同的状态，以获得基础设施提供与聚落系统之间的联系的详尽和准确的表现。该项目对城市研究有两方面的贡献，特别是对印度和全球南部的类似国家：(I)方法框架可用作主动规划工具，以及(Ii)有助于解释中心场所理论和基于场所的理论的重要性，以解释和加强聚落层次结构以实现权力下放。

In India, there is sufficient evidence of urbanization being limited to concentration in certain large urban centres and it is hardly disputed. Considerable uncertainty exists in attaining urban development linked with infrastructure provision. Specially, the proposed isolated projects (transportation corridors and smart cities) with lack of integrated development pose a significant challenge in achieving distributed urbanisation. There are still significant gaps in research describing and explaining the limited success of decentralisation with respect to infrastructure provision. This is due to lack of spatial data and lack of spatial aspects (infrastructure integrated spatial development) in urban and regional planning. Using available data and simple analytical techniques, this project aims to provide a comprehensive methodological framework to link infrastructure provision with urban development for Indian urban regions. The adopted empirical approach constituted in incremental steps utilises two spatial levels for linking infrastructure provision with settlement system. The project combines a thorough examination of the institutional structure (urban governance and finance) and actual status of urban development at state level. Statistically and spatially refined analysis of the link between infrastructure provision and settlement hierarchy at metropolitan level (main city plus subordinate centres). This approach is designed to capture the influence of infrastructure provision on urban development in a comparative manner, using two remarkably different states, to attain an exhaustive and accurate representation of the linkage between infrastructure provision and settlement system.The project makes twofold contribution to the urban research especially for India and similar countries in the Global South: (i) the methodological framework can be used as a proactive planning tool, and (ii) contribute in explaining the importance of central place theory and place based theory for interpreting and reinforcing the settlement hierarchy to achieve decentralisation.