State urbanisation report Kerala: a study on the scattered human settlement pattern of Kerala and its development issues.
- Kerala : Department of Town and Country Planning, 2012.
- 153p.
CHAPTER 1 PROFILE OF KERALA -- Geography -- Administrative History -- South Canara -- Malabar Region -- Cochin Region -- Travancore Region-- Settlement -- Pattern-- Demography-- Socio – Economic Profile -- Natural Resources-- Cultural Life -- Climatic Conditions -- Overall Development -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 DEMOGRAPHIC --TRANSITION-- Population Trends -- Population Density -- Demographic transition -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 FUNCTIONAL CHARACTER AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PATTERN -- Functional character -- 17 Economic Activity Pattern -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 URBANISATION TREND -- Urbanisation -- History of Urbanisation-- Urbanisation in the Indian -- Context-- Degree of urbanisation -- Trend of Urbanisation -- Spatial Distribution of Urban Population & Urban Content in Kerala -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 URBAN AREAS AND URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS -- Statutory Urban Areas -- Urban agglomerations in Kerala -- Degree of urban primacy-- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND PACE OF URBANISATION -- Urban Morphology -- Million -Plus cities -- Pace of urbanisation -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 7 POPULATION DENSITY-- Population density -- Density of urban agglomerations -- Population density variation between core and fringe of urban agglomeration -- Population density variation within the core of urban agglomeration -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 8 URBAN-RURAL DISTRIBUTION OF CATEGORY OF WORKERS-- Category of workers -- 51 Category of workers - Urban-Rural Distribution -- Major urban industry class in the rural areas of Kerala -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF URBANISATION -- Distribution of urban areas among different topographical regions-- Urban area in physical terms -- Coverage of built up within the urban area -- Census urban area and activity pattern -- Hierarchy of urban settlements -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 10 ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT OF URBANISATION IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC FRONT -- GDP and Per capita Income -- Human Development Index -- Work Participation Rate and occupational structure -- Land utilization pattern and cropping pattern -- Size of Land Holdings -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 11 FUTURE URBANISATION IN KERALA -- Urban vision -- Estimation of urban population -- Hierarchy and spatial pattern of urban areas -- Delineation of future urban areas and future urban profile of the state -- District wise urban profile -- Towards achieving the urban profile -- CHAPTER 12 RECOMMENDATIONS