ABSTRACT
Development projects often run the risk of being conceived and evaluated as stand-alone endeavors with streamlined 'positive' outcomes. Such optimistic rationales are often marred by unintended and unforeseen consequences. Variations and inequalities in individual travel behaviours, along the lines of income, gender, race, age, working status, etc., are already a well-noted phenomenon in both the developed and developing world. Discourses on the concept of mobility have traditionally described it as physical movement on one hand and a change in social status on the other. Understanding the spatially differentiated mobilities of different social groups living within developing urban contexts can lead to better formulations of its space-making and land-use attributes. The interaction between spatial mobility for negotiating daily lives and other forms of mobility has not been substantially explored in the developing countries. Elaborating on the topic of 'urban', it is evident that the urban areas are primarily emerging as 'fractals of peri-urban interfaces' rather than pure urban forms.
