Geo-Eye

Abstract

The significant performance of any specific economic activity has impact on city growth. Cities with strong economic potential will undergo rapid development. Use of innovative technology is the basic tool that helps in development. If an activity is concentrated at certain limit in a town, it dominates the city’s economic life and becomes its major function, and the performance level of such services is at greater proportion than the others. Few cities have high economical potential in more than one service also. Cities which are not economically potential in any service are categorized as single diversified group. Indian census classifies towns into 6 classes based on population and identifies 9 economic occupations. Telangana is the newly formed state (June 2nd 2014) of India having 160 towns which constitutes 38.12% of urban population. This paper explains the changing pattern of occupations of different towns from 1961 to 2011. Standard Deviation is the method used for classification of cities and explains the degree of variations.

Keywords: City Growth, Unequal Cities, Functional Classification, Standard Deviation