PhD Research scholar,
The focus of this paper is to provide a broad outline of the recent patterns and trends of urban growth in the state Kerala from the developing country like India. Over the last 2 decades, many urban areas have experienced remarkable growth, because of rapid population growth and as the Indian economy have been transformed by a combination of rapid technological and political change. Around one-third of the total population now live in urban settlements. In addition, while cities command an increasingly dominant role in the Indian economy as centres of both production and consumption. Rapid urban growth throughout the developing world is critically outstripping the capacity of most cities to provide adequate services for their citizens. Over the next 30 years, the virtual majority of population growth is expected to be concentrated in urban areas in the developing world. While much of the current sustainable cities discuss focuses on the alarming problems for the world's largest urban agglomerations, the majority of all urban dwellers continue to reside in far smaller urban settlements. The challenges of achieving sustainable urban development will be particularly difficult in India.
Urbanization, Demography, Sustainable development
