Abstract:
Cross border trade has been a big phenomenon across the world as a
key of regional development and globalization. It helps in reducing regional
disparities, it brings economic prosperity, physical development and at the
same time it brings opportunity to meet the global market. So it helps in
improving the lifestyles of the people, and it’s a new field to study and
understand urban planning in a cross-border context.
The study includes an extensive study of Indo- Bhutan cross-border
region along with certain other case studies. In the Indo- Bhutan case, certain
issues those are being hurdle in the development process are identified and
the study is an attempt to solve those issues with physical and policy planning
in order to make the market place as a thriving place for capital investment
and development.
Border towns are especially market towns. Most of them are formed
because of trade. Trade and development are corresponding to each other.
Development follows the trade. So in such border towns, market places are
the crucial parts. And so the case of Jaigaon and Phuentsholing is. This is
where, the characteristics of a border town are quiet different then any other
town because its functional center is not its physical center but it is
concentrated towards the border.
