The concept of the urban and the rural spaces are generally
differentiated with the type of activities performed in both of them. Though
their functioning is relatively inter-dependent and inter-functional, they are
at large treated as separate entities and their planning is also generally done
in isolation. The increasing population has to get accommodated in the urban
areas, especially in the developing world to increase the level of education,
awareness in order to make advancements at par with the developed world in the
future times, but the usefulness of the both of them can’t be over-rated in any
sense. The urbanites has to be circulated by a large amount of agricultural and
rural products, without which their survival will become the question of their
existence and rural population needs the market where there products can be
sold out as it’s the major part of their earning. Hence, for a sustainable
growth – the two of them should be planned together so that the needs and
survival requisites are made at a comparatively nearer location to make the
settlements a self-sustaining system in general. ‘As the moment of the urban
majority approaches, it will become increasingly important to think critically
about the meaning of urban-ness, to set aside habits of thought that have
placed city residents and rural villagers in separate conceptual categories,
and to recognize the many ways in which their lives and well being are intertwined...
there is a growing understanding that it will need to
be replaced by more graduated measures of the urban-rural continuum, one which
recognizes the connectedness of rural residents to multiple urban places.’
(Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the Developing World,
June 2002, Kenya)
The other interesting standard that could be placed in to increase
the efficiency of the human settlements lies in the present standards which
divide the spaces as urban and rural areas. They are generally measured in
terms of the demographic profile, density, area, no. of motorised vehicles,
etc, which are in direct contrast if the standards of the quality of life are
measured. It will also become more and more important to conceive the cities not
in terms of the well being of their average resident – which is generally
superior to that of the average rural villager – but rather as places of
astonishing diversity and inequality, in which substantial populations live in
slum neighbourhoods facing threats to health that are as bad or worse than in
rural environments’ (Urban Population-Development-Environment Dynamics in the
Developing World, June 2002, Kenya). This will look a little unusual in the
first perception, but when thought of as the life of the humanity and its basic
living values, the readings and the set standards gives somewhat which can be
said to as a translucent image. The cities aren’t the physical entities rather
they are as lively as the organs of our body. The daily habits and schedule
effects the functioning of the organs, likewise, the human interferences
effects the functioning of the system, in which they live in. The complexity of
the urban settlements has increased and is increasing at an accelerated pace
every moment that passes by; therefore, it’s a real high time to raise the
aspects covered in the contemporary planning processes to a wider level and all
the factors involved should all be planned in integration with each other.
The establishment of the concept of Urban-Rural Continuum in this respect should
play a significant role in the future planning, developments, formation and
growth of the human settlements. For the new developments and the new cities to
be planned in the coming times, this concept if planned wisely should
prove beneficial at large and the efficiency of the urban-rural ecosystem could
be maintained at a higher level.
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