Urban India 2011: Evidence
The India Urban Conference: Evidence and Experience (IUC 2011) is a series of events designed to raise the salience of urban challenges and opportunities in the ongoing debate on India’s development.
This brief and intensive underlying analysis - pulled together as part of this initiative - brings together available evidence from national surveys, the Census of India, remote sensing data on urban spatial dynamics, as well as published and grey literature. The picture created is far removed from the lived reality of urban India, and the aggregate summaries may be at odds with the varied circumstances that policymakers, entrepreneurs and civil society face as they seek to intervene in the urban transition. However, it places these experiences in their broader context and provides some basis for a shared understanding of the underlying trends behind the everyday and individual observations of how India and its urban areas are evolving.
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