Community and Regional Planning Program
Date of this Version
8-1967
Abstract
PART – II : THE SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE OF KERALA
CHAPTER V : THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCATTERED PATTERN OF SETTLEMENTS
CHAPTER VI : INFLUENCE OF NATURAL FEATURES ON THE SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE OF KERALA
CHAPTER VII : THE URBAN SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE
General characteristics of urban population • The process of urbanisation • The concept of urban centre • Classification of towns by states • Classification of towns by population size •Functional classification of towns • Town groups • Growth of urban centres • Urban clusters and concentration complexes • Growth of urban population • Demographic characteristics of the urban population • Features of functional classification of towns • General characteristics of the structure of workers in urban areas • Certain trends in the working population in the cities of above 1 lakh population • Trends in immigration to cities and urban areas
CHAPTER VIII : THE STUDIES
A study of cities • The study of towns
CHAPTER IX : THE STRUCTURE OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS
The concept of a village in Kerala • Demographic struCtURe of rural areas • Distribution of population in rural areas • Distribution of villages of different population sizes • Concentration of villages of large population size and small towns in districts and ta1uks • Density of roads in rural areas •The occupational structure • The rural settlement patterns • Physical factors • Historical factors • Economic factors • Social factors • The unit of a rural settlement in Kerala • Trends of change in rural areas
CHAPTER X : THE RURAL URBAN PHENOMENA
Rural urban knots • An insight to spatial content of settlements •Physical formation of rural-urban knots • Economic characteristics • Social characteristics • Pattern of land use development • Classification of rural-urban knots • Area of influence • General conclusions • Functions of rural-urban knots • The form of rural-urban knots • Criteria for locating the rural urban knots of Kerala • Linear development • General classification of linear development in Kerala along transportation routes • Characteristics of linear development in Kerala
CHAPTER XI : THE RURAL-URBAN RELATIONSHIPS
Rural Urban dichotomy or continuum? • The functional hierarchy of settlements • Role of Services and facilities in rural urban relationships
CHAPTER XII : THE MOVEMENT CHANNELS – INTER LINKAGES
Transport in Kerala • The transport system • Railways • The road net work •The inland water ways • The air ways and air strips • The ports
CHAPTER XIII: THE STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRIES IN KERALA AND THEIR SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
Factors that impede rapid industrialisation • Size of factor sector • Composition of factory sector • Characteristics of industrial structure • Size of factories • Location pattern of industries
Comments
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Town and Country Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, August 1967