You can help adding them by using this form. We have no bibliographic references for this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about. This allows to link your profile to this item. If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.įor technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-1-5_4. You can help correct errors and omissions.

Suggested CitationĪll material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. The impacts of globalization on cities (as opposed to the macroeconomic reforms) can be exaggerated: The scale of FDI is low compared with other Asian countries, the direct impacts were geographically concentrated in six larger cities, globalization has not accelerated urban growth, only a few economic sectors have been impacted, and the most obvious changes have been in the built environment (e.g., new buildings) and spatial structure. The macroeconomic reforms and globalization have forced many policy changes at the city level: Private sector involvement in infrastructure development and management allowing city access to capital markets and setting up central government funding programs to promote urban structural change. FDI has focused on a limited set of sectors (including knowledge-based industries), resulting in selective (not unskilled) migration and growth along urban corridors rather than within cities. High-quality residential and office space has been developed on the urban outskirts, fostered by rapidly rising land prices.

The urban population distribution in India reflects the absence of primacy in fact, the million-plus cities grew more slowly in the 1990s in an era of lower population growth. Globalization (and the macroeconomic policies associated with it) not only resulted in rapid economic growth but affected cities in different ways, primarily by the growth of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter explores the implications of India’s post-1991 liberalization and globalization on the national urban system.

The globalization of cities leads to: