Peri-urbanisation around metropolitan cities of India has been an emerging and apparent phenomenon in the last few decades. The peri-urban spaces, which are characterised by co-existence of urban and rural elements, are very dynamic in nature and undergoing continuous changes with regards to land use, population characteristics, and social systems. They are in fact considered as "regions of change". This paper tries to explore how do the processes of peri-urbanisation around cities instigate changes at the periphery of cities and what are the implications of these changes on the economic condition of peri-urban residents? It is observed that although the transitory spaces usually represent a spatial continuum between urban and rural counterparts, there are some instances where the continuum breaks. These spaces are experiencing rapid population growth, while stagnant or negative growth is observed in the urban core. Land use changes are very prominent in these transitional spaces as the built-up area is unprecedentedly increasing due to urban expansion. The study finds that peri-urbanisation brings unequal benefits for its residents; it opens new employment opportunities in emerging non-agricultural sectors, but at the same time it also aggravates gender disparity in work.

在过去的几十年里，印度大都市周边的城市化已经成为一种新兴的明显现象。城郊空间以城市和农村元素共存为特征，在本质上是非常动态的，并且在土地利用、人口特征和社会制度方面不断发生变化。它们实际上被视为“变化区域”。本文试图探讨城市周边城市化的过程如何激发城市周边的变化，以及这些变化对周边城市居民的经济状况有何影响？据观察，虽然过渡空间通常代表城市和农村对应空间之间的空间连续体，但在某些情况下，连续体会中断。这些空间正在经历快速的人口增长，而在城市核心区则观察到停滞或负增长。由于城市扩张，建成区空前增加，这些过渡空间的土地利用变化非常突出。研究发现，周边城市化为其居民带来了不平等的利益；它为新兴的非农业部门开辟了新的就业机会，但同时也加剧了工作中的性别差距。