SPATIAL MODELLING OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: A STUDY FROM A DEVELOPING COUNTRY (INDIA)
Journal Title: Revue Roumaine de Géographie/Romanian Journal of Geography - Year 2017, Vol 61, Issue 2
Abstract
Regional disparity is a challenging issue for urban planners, policy makers, academicians, bureaucrats and technocrats in the developing countries. In India, a wide-range of socio-economic disparities are commonly evident even in Class – I cities. Such an undesirable phenomenon reflects on the spatial variation of the quality of life, level of living, as well as well-being and welfare of the inhabitants. Moreover, it is against the constitutional law of equity and social justice. The present study is based on the empirical observation focused on ward wise variation of availability and accessibility to the socio-economic utility services and infrastructure accessibility in Rajarhat – Gopalpur Municipality of West Bengal. On the basis of ‘Cronbach’s Alpha’ and ‘Principal Component Analysis’, the entire set of data has been arranged by five factors of which the first three (cumulative percentage of variance is 89.84) have been considered to examine the dimension of socioeconomic disparities and the level of development in the city. From Cronbach’s Alpha Analysis of thirty-four variables, eleven were eliminated, while transport facilities (i.e. Auto stand, Bus terminus, Bus stop, Post Office), health facilities (i.e. Hospital, Nursing Homes, PHC, etc.) and education services (Schools and Colleges) were taken into consideration for further study. The factor score determines the first three components with 89.84 % of variance. In the first component the highlight falls on the economic factors, while the second and the third components depict education and transport factors, respectively.
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PAUL SUMAN, KUNDU SANJIT
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