Patterns of Urbanization and Environmental Quality in the Context of Indian Cities

摘要

The link between quality of urban development and its impact on environment has for long been debated. The authors attempt to assess the impact that India's rapidly urbanizing cities and related development are having on urban environment. The authors emphasize on the 'quality' of development while attempting to answer this question and indicate that quality factors, such as， density, urban massing and spatial pattern of land use, as well as socio-economic and cultural factors resulting from these, have an important bearing on the quality of urban environment in Indian cities. The authors conclude that several physical and human environmental factors need to be further evaluated from a new perspective to gain insights into perceived and measured components that influence environmental quality.%城市发展质量及其对环境的影响之间的联系，是长久以来一直争论不休的话题。作者试图评估印度城市的快速城市化及其相关开发对城市环境的影响。作者强调发展的?质量?，并试图回答这个问题，作者还指出与质量有关因素（比如密度、城市体量、土地使用的空间模式以及由此形成的社会经济和文化因素）对印度城市环境的质量产生了重要影响。作者的结论是一些空间和人居环境的因素需要从一个新的视角进一步评估，从而深入了解可感知和可测量的、影响环境质量的因素。