*Research Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore
Candidate, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
Online published on 15 February, 2014.
Urbanisation has occurred mostly after the era of industrialisation which was an explicit product of high economic growth. The developed world has witnessed vast patterns of urbanisation while the developing world is slowly moving towards it with high potential of being urbanised. India is too urbanising at a faster rate and is predicted to become one of the highly urbanised countries in the coming time.