Bangalore¶
Summary: Notes on Bangalore's history, heritage, urban development, and related local topics. Last updated: 2026-08-23
- Modeling and Simulation of Urbanisation in Greater Bangalore: Aithal, Vinay, Durgappa & Ramachandra (2013). IISc study using Markov chain and cellular automata modeling to project Bangalore's urbanization through 2020, finding that vegetation, open spaces, and water bodies will keep disappearing under clustered urban expansion. See also Remote_Sensing, Urban_Water_and_Resilience. Keywords: urbanization modeling, Markov chain, cellular automata, land use change, urban sprawl, Bangalore
- Realizing India's Potential for Transit-Oriented Development and Land Value Capture: Asian Development Bank (2022). ADB study assessing TOD implementation challenges (planning, governance, finance) and land value capture potential in major Indian cities, including metro-served Bengaluru. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: transit-oriented development, land value capture, ADB, metro rail, urban finance, India
- Series-14, Mysore, Part VI-A: Town Directory: Census of India (1971). Official 1971 Census town directory volume for the former Mysore state (present-day Karnataka), covering town-level demographic and administrative data; hosted on the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) digital repository (site was unreachable at time of ingestion). See also Data. Keywords: census, 1971, Mysore, town directory, Karnataka, historical demographics
- Jobs Near Metro Rail Transit in Bengaluru: Chanchani, Deb, Dhindaw, Palanichamy, Jyoti & Pai (2024). WRI India working paper examining employment distribution along Bengaluru's metro network, arguing transit-oriented development is needed to concentrate jobs near stations and ease congestion and sprawl. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: jobs, metro rail, transit-oriented development, Bengaluru, WRI, urban mobility
- A Repository of Earth Resource Information – CORONA Satellite Programme: Dashora, Lohani & Malik (2007). Current Science review of the declassified CORONA spy satellite photograph archive (1960–72) as a resource for geology, land use, and archaeology research. See also Remote_Sensing, Archaeology. Keywords: CORONA satellite, declassified imagery, earth resources, historical imagery, remote sensing, archaeology
- Transit-Oriented Development Policy for Bengaluru: Directorate of Urban Land Transport (2020). Karnataka DULT's official TOD policy document for Bengaluru, published as a downloadable resource. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: TOD policy, DULT, Bengaluru, urban transport, Karnataka, metro
- Network City: Planning the Information Society in Bangalore: Heitzman (2004). Book examining Bangalore's growth as an IT hub through the lens of urban planning, institutional change, and the global "information society" development model. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: Network City, Heitzman, IT hub, urban planning, information society, Bangalore history
- Discursive Politics and Policy (Im)mobility: Metro-TOD Policies in India: Mittal & Shah (2022). Examines how metro/TOD policy framings spread across Indian cities via venues like the Urban Mobility India conference, shaping which policy narratives get adopted and which are excluded. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: policy mobility, metro, TOD, urban policy discourse, India
- "The City Is History": New Indian Urbanism and the Terrain of the Law: Nair (2014). Janaki Nair's study of Bangalore urbanism through the lens of law, examining how legal frameworks shape access to urban space and resources across the city's colonial-to-postcolonial transformation. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: Janaki Nair, urban law, Indian urbanism, colonial history, urban governance
- District Census Handbook, Bangalore, Karnataka: Series 30 Part XII A: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner (2014). 2011 Census District Census Handbook for Bangalore district, combining village/town directory data (Part A) with detailed demographic and socio-economic population data (Part B). See also Data. Keywords: census, DCHB, Bangalore district, 2011, demographics, Karnataka
- Analysing Urban Sprawl and Shifting of Urban Growth Centre of Bengaluru Using Shannon's Entropy: Verma, Chatterjee & Mandal (2017). Uses Shannon's entropy as a quantitative metric to show Bengaluru's urban growth shifting from a monocentric core to a dispersed, polycentric pattern over time. See also Urban_Planning. Keywords: Shannon's entropy, urban sprawl, polycentric growth, spatial analysis, urban growth centre