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Presentation of Kullu-Bhuntar Fieldwork
Diya Mehra
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Main Arguments
• 1) The importance of historical forms of urbanization in a mountainous region and its contemporary resonance
• 2) Multilayered production of a district and town (through local, national, regional, intl flows)
• 3) Patterns of Urbanization • 4) Review of factor guidelines
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Historical Forms of Urbanization
• Kullu town as the link between upper valleys of the Kullu district, and the plains
• Link between Tibet and Punjab• Gateway for Lahaul and Spiti into the plains• Seat of the Kullu rajas and center of the sacred
geography of the valley• Post-Independence Administrative
headquarters
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Kullu Valley
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Contemporary Period – Himachal Pradesh
• High GDP growth, high incomes• High levels of infrastructure provision – water,
electricity, telephones, roads• High social indicators
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Economic Activities in Kullu-Bhuntar
• Tourism • Agriculture• Professional services • Government infrastructure • Shops, bazaars and markets• Religious architecture • Factories • Hydroelectric • Private infrastructure • Military infrastructure
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Patterns of Urbanization• Multilayered flows/growth of the built
environment • Spatial dispersion through self-urbanization
and institutional growth• Ribbon development, suburbanization and
metropolitanization?• Cross Border Potato Urbanization – the
importance of Lahaul and Spiti and their potatoes
• Under reported Urbanization
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