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Visualizing Peri-Urban and Rurban Water Conditions in Pune District, Maharashtra, India Visualizing peri-urban and rurban water conditions in Pune district, Maharashtra, India The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Hui, Rebecca and James L. Wescoat, Jr. "Visualizing peri-urban and ryrban water conditions in Pune district, Maharashtra, India." Geoforum 102 (June 2019): 255-266 © 2018 The Author(s) As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.008 Publisher Elsevier BV Version Final published version Citable link https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122024 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Geoforum 102 (2019) 255–266 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Geoforum journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/geoforum Visualizing peri-urban and rurban water conditions in Pune district, Maharashtra, India T ⁎ Rebecca Hui, James L. Wescoat Jr. School of Architecture and Planning and MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, USA ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Drinking water programs in India treat urban and rural areas separately, generally neglecting the special con- Peri-urban ditions of settlements referred to as peri-urban or rurban. We show how the historiography of peri-urban areas Rurban acquired negative connotations of poor water and sanitation services while rurban places have come to be Drinking water associated with positive well-disciplined conditions. Previous research on drinking water programs has taken Sanitation two paths, one of which generates rigorous qualitative case studies that criticize neoliberal policies, while the Pune other employs larger scale quantitative methods to advance neoliberal policy reforms. This paper adopts a Maharashtra India hybrid pragmatic approach to visualize strengths and weaknesses of water and sanitation services in urbanizing rural areas of Pune district, Maharashtra. We re-assess demographic definitions of the rural-urban dichotomy in India, distance-based criteria used in Maharashtra, and Census of India water and sanitation data. A combination of field research and GIS mapping identified four main peri-urban patterns in Pune district: (1) megacity fringe; (2) highway corridor development; (3) industrial zones; and (4) block town expansion. We show that while water supply has improved in some rurban areas, sanitation and drainage problems have not kept up. A second pattern of deficiency was observed in transitional towns of 5000 persons. Annually updated water and sanitation datasets at the national and state levels will make this pragmatic combination of GIS mapping and field research approaches valuable for visualizing peri-urban and rurban conditions at the district scale of water governance and planning in India. 1. Introduction acknowledge the heterogeneity and “undisciplined” or “untamed” as- pects of hybrid places, which makes them challenging to describe, vi- Many countries distinguish rural and urban settlements, and have sualize, and theorize, let alone serve (Allen et al., 2016; Woltjer et al., developed separate water supply and sanitation programs to serve 2014). In terms of theory-building, we follow Friedmann’s (2016) view them. There are large literatures on rural and urban water problems, of peri-urban research as middle level grounded theory. There is and a growing literature that is concerned with hybrid settlements that growing recognition of middle landscapes between urban and rural that are not well served by either rural or urban water programs. While are extraordinarily dynamic and only “partially disciplined” in the much lamented, the rural-urban dichotomy has deep administrative, language of this special issue. financial, and territorial roots that have constrained the development of Orthogonal to the rural-urban settlement dichotomy is a theoretical effective water programs for hybrid settlements (Allen, 2003, 2010; and methodological opposition between policies to ensure safe drinking Narain, 2016). Various concepts strive to bridge the rural-urban divide. water and sanitation. One position advocates economic and institu- Peri-urban and rurban programs have acquired salience in India and tional reforms to remedy state and local policy failures. These reforms other developing countries, as have suburban and town and country focus on devolution of water authority, responsibility, and financing planning concepts in North America and Europe. Some scholars regard from state to household levels (World Bank, 2014). They stress that these hybrid settlements as transitional sites of urbanization (cf. water is an economic good that requires effective pricing to sustain Brenner, 2014; Scott, 2013). A smaller group approaches them from a capital investment, maintenance, and asset management. An opposing more rural perspective as evolving ruralities or agropolitan landscapes group starts from the position that water is a human right and common (Friedmann, 2011). Still others regard suburbanization as the ascendant good, and that policy failures stem uneven development and unjust mode of human settlement (e.g., Berger and Kotkin, 2017). All power relations. So-called neoliberal reforms are likely to exacerbate ⁎ Corresponding author at: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Room 10-390, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.L. Wescoat). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.008 Received 25 October 2016; Received in revised form 8 January 2018; Accepted 15 January 2018 Available online 08 February 2018 0016-7185/ © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). R. Hui, J.L. Wescoat Geoforum 102 (2019) 255–266 these failures by further eroding and encroaching upon state and increasingly regarded in positive terms as rural places that have urban community duties (Sultana et al., 2011). The latter position employs amenities. However, the concepts of peri-urban and rurban are them- rigorous field research that yields qualitative case studies of differential selves undisciplined, with diverse and changing geographic denotations water access. The reforms literature tends to employ quantitative and and connotations that are retraced in this section to better understand graphic analysis. Interestingly, neither employs mapping methods of current usage and problems or, in pragmatic terms, “the current si- the sort presented below. tuation.” More recent water research in India and elsewhere has moved to- Peri-urban has become a widely used term worldwide for settlement ward more hybrid positions that challenge these dichotomies. Bakker beyond the boundary of a city (Woltjer et al., 2014). The earliest (2013) has critically assessed neoliberal and postneoliberal water ar- English usage that we have found dates back only to the 1930s. Several guments. Sangameswaran (2014) presents a field-based critique “com- University of Chicago economic geography dissertations and theses plicating the story of ‘reforms’ in Maharashtra.” Hutchings et al. (2017) used the concept descriptively in case studies of Negaunee, Michigan identify a range of successes in community water management in India, and Pomona, California, in each case emphasizing the heterogeneity of from neo-patrimonial low income states to developmental high income peri-urban land uses (Miller, 1933; Whitaker, 1931). Other scholars of and socialist-bureaucratic middle income states. Allen (2010) and col- that period argued for terms such as “rural-urban ecotone,”“urban leagues show how peri-urban research contributes to critical water fringe,” and “fringe belt.” Early peri-urban references in the U.S. may planning practice. On the neoliberal side, Briscoe and Malik (2006) trace back to Francophone literature introduced to the University of offer rules of “principled pragmatism” for incremental rather than ra- Chicago by visiting Swiss urban geographer Raoul Blanchard, as well as dical financial reforms. to references to problematic peri-urbain conditions in French medical This paper also adopts a hybrid pragmatist approach to drinking geography (e.g., Casenove de la Roche, 1884). water planning, but it is a pragmatism that is philosophical as well as However, the most extensive formal application of peri-urban practical. Pragmatism is problem-driven, pluralistic, empirical, and planning concepts occurred in South Africa, also during the 1930s when outcomes-oriented (Wescoat, 1992; Wood and Smith, 2008). It eschews depression and drought drove rapid migration from rural areas to the dichotomies of the spatial and theoretical sort discussed above, always boundaries of cities like Johannesburg and Pretoria urban where urban searching for integrative alternatives that expand the range of choice access was racially restricted and conditions were poor. The Thornton for water users and communities. We note that similarly hybrid theo- Committee on Peri-Urban Areas (1938–39) and Smit Committee on the retical perspectives have associated peri-urbanization with Soja’s Social, Health and Economic Condition of Urban Natives (1942) led to theory of third space and “thirding” (Vanier, 2003), though that ap- passage of a 1943 Peri-Urban Areas Health Board Ordinance in 1943. proach is less closely connected with planning than the pragmatic ap- The connection between peri-urban areas, water, and health was cen- proach adopted here (cf.
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