5. Metropolitan City-Satellites-Fringe Villages Relationship: Case Studies with Greater Mumbai, Bengaluru and their Regions

For most of the metropolitan areas, urban growth is seen to trickle down in areas beyond the city limit, which includes its immediate surrounding areas and satellite towns already developed. Two megacity regions, i.e., Greater Mumbai and Bengaluru have been selected based on contrasting urban population growth rate (positive and negative), variation in economic bases (service-oriented and manufacturing) as well as varied satellite development history in the temporal era (old and comparatively new). This chapter attempts to highlight how relationships among megacity-satellites-fringe villages have developed in the context of these two Indian metros and their regions. These megacities and their environs need meticulous analysis and planning in respect of rational population distribution and allocation of activities by integrating economy and space for the coming decades. This step is necessary to shape a healthy and planned urban mosaic within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as well as in the Bangalore Metropolitan Region (BMR).