Cities as Growth Hubs: Knowledge Framework

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Cities as Growth Hubs: Knowledge Framework

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.contributor.author	Asian Development Bank (ADB)
dc.date.accessioned	2025-06-30T19:03:45Z
dc.date.available	2025-06-30T19:03:45Z
dc.date.issued	2025-06-30
dc.description.abstract	For programs to be responsive to the specific spatial contexts, growth drivers, constraints to economic activity, and the economic potential of cities in India’s complex city system, which comprises of 4,041 statutory cities and towns as per the 2011 census, a one-size-fits-all approach to urban growth will not work and a new approach to incentivizing urban growth hubs is needed—for several reasons: First, satellite analysis undertaken as part of this report shows that cities across class sizes face unplanned peri-urban growth, and in 2020, an estimated thirty two percent of built-up area was outside of statutory city boundaries. Cities are integrated labor markets, but due to unplanned peri-urban growth, the geographic boundaries of local labor markets do not necessarily coincide with those of existing administrative units and municipal boundaries. As such cities need to rethink their “urban growth boundaries.” Second, cities face substantial differences in governance structures, municipal capacities, access to markets, connectivity, skills, and labor pool. Thus, the scope for growth varies across urban areas. Third, most cities face many cross-cutting constraints such as access to serviced land and infrastructure finance and will need to prioritize interventions. Fourth, while industrial estates, corridors and zones are critical in terms of providing employment opportunities, systematic planning for urbanizing areas around industrial zones lags industrial planning. Strengthening India’s system of cities will be critical to meeting its ambitious industrial and economic development goals.	en
dc.identifier	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/928d19cf-ad95-4ab3-a7e9-4aaf3ef26d87
dc.identifier.UUID	928d19cf-ad95-4ab3-a7e9-4aaf3ef26d87
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/43396
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43396
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank and Asian Development Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	URBAN GROWTH
dc.subject	FRAMEWORK AND TYPOLOGIES
dc.subject	GROWTH HUBS
dc.subject	GOVERNANCE
dc.subject	SPATIAL PLANNING
dc.title	Cities as Growth Hubs: Knowledge Framework	en
dc.type	Report
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2025-06-30
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-07-02T02:10:51.557497Z
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Urban Study
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	India
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Economic Development
okr.topic	Urban Development::Urban Governance and Management