Subject(s): Urbanization -- Urban systems -- Urban places and areas -- City planning in India -- India (Republic) Urban regions Social planning -- Study of urbanization -- Geographical approaches to the study of urbanization -- Source of materials and methodology -- Urban research -- History of urbanization -- Urbanization process : Socio-cultural process, political-administration process, economic process, geographical process -- Definition of urban places and areas -- Spatial limits of urban areas -- Urban places and urban area -- patterns of urbanization -- Macro-spatial patterns -- Classification of urban places -- Socio-cultural characteristics -- Economic or functional classification -- Settlement systems -- Behavioural and normative Settlement systems , Primate city settlement system,settlement system and the rank size rule, central place settlement system -- Empirical studies on settlement system -- Spacing settlements, Settlement hierarchies , rural-urban travel behaviour -- City and region -- Rural-urban fringe -- Urbanization policy -- National five year plans