![]() The study emphasizes the use of modern research tools to gather scientific evidence on the urban sprawl in mid-sized cities. The urban sprawl typologies (UST), such as secondary urban core and urban fringe, exhibited an increasing trend in all the cities. The urban sprawl assessment revealed the prevalence of outward expansion, shape irregularity of built-up patches, and rapid dispersion. The USI values ranged from 20.73 in Thiruvananthapuram Urban Agglomeration (UA) to 11.28 in Dehradun UA. Despite the rapid growth of built-up areas, there was a decline in population density in most cities. The results revealed the rapid growth of built-up areas in all the cities, mainly toward the periphery. A multivariable integrated urban sprawl index (USI) was formulated by combining eleven significant variables related to urban sprawl patterns and typologies. ![]() After obtaining satisfactory accuracy results, land cover change detection was conducted. Based on remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS), Landsat satellite images from 1991 to 2018 were classified into built-up and non-built-up land cover classes. The selected cities are Lucknow, Patna from Indo-Gangetic Plains, Ranchi, Raipur from the peninsular plateau, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneswar from coastal belts, and Srinagar, Dehradun from the northern mountainous region. In this context, the paper attempts to investigate urban sprawl in eight mid-sized Indian cities from diverse physiographic regions. ![]() ![]() Detailed studies focusing on the spatio-temporal urban sprawl in mid-sized Indian cities are relatively rare. ![]()
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