{"title":"City profile: Nainital","authors":"Nidhi Singh , Vishal Singh , Anvita Pandey","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105864","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nainital, a popular hill station nestled in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), was established during British rule in India. Naini Lake is the focal point of Nainital town and important in terms of environment significance, water resource, tourist attraction as well as income and livelihood generation for the local people. Currently, town houses a population of 169,000, which is much more than its planned capacity. As a result, to meet the demand for residential, commercial, educational, work, and recreational facilities for its ever-increasing population, Nainital—once famous for its natural settings, beautiful buildings, and marvellous townscape—has undergone tremendous changes and now faces numerous development issues and problems. It is one of the significant examples of haphazard urban growth in environmentally sensitive and picturesque hill settings. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of Nainital by focusing on its historical development, infrastructure, and institutional framework. It highlights the changes in governance over time, the major challenges and issues faced by the town and analyzes the sustainability dynamics within the context in which these dynamics have emerged and evolved. Nainital shares similarities with broad range of other mid-sized Himalayan urban cities in terms of ecological settings and resources, in this way the proposed development options for its sustainability applicable to these cities as well.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 105864"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125001647","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/14 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Nainital, a popular hill station nestled in Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), was established during British rule in India. Naini Lake is the focal point of Nainital town and important in terms of environment significance, water resource, tourist attraction as well as income and livelihood generation for the local people. Currently, town houses a population of 169,000, which is much more than its planned capacity. As a result, to meet the demand for residential, commercial, educational, work, and recreational facilities for its ever-increasing population, Nainital—once famous for its natural settings, beautiful buildings, and marvellous townscape—has undergone tremendous changes and now faces numerous development issues and problems. It is one of the significant examples of haphazard urban growth in environmentally sensitive and picturesque hill settings. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of Nainital by focusing on its historical development, infrastructure, and institutional framework. It highlights the changes in governance over time, the major challenges and issues faced by the town and analyzes the sustainability dynamics within the context in which these dynamics have emerged and evolved. Nainital shares similarities with broad range of other mid-sized Himalayan urban cities in terms of ecological settings and resources, in this way the proposed development options for its sustainability applicable to these cities as well.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
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