An Assessment of Land Transformation Due To Urban Sprawl in Unnao Town, Uttar Pradesh

 

By : Roohi Fatma , Vandana Kumari Chauhan

Page No: 231-239

Abstract
Urbanization is not a new concept or issue in the world. As it is known that the motivation and processes involved in the establishment of the very first town are largely a matter of speculation. A necessary precondition must have the prevailing of a prosperous, settled agricultural economy to enable the production of food for storage to support urban population. This process of urbanization is increasing with accelerating rate continuously with the industrial revolution and coming out new technologies. With the industrial revolution, good transport network for movement of goods and people and new technology together accelerate the rate of urbanization which raise the issue of urban sprawl. The standard definition for urban sprawl is not an easy task because it still in debate. Different people give many definitions of sprawl from different perspectives. In oxford dictionary it has been defined as “the disorganized and unattractive expansion of an urban or industrial area into the adjoining country side”. The European Environment Agency (EEA) has described sprawl as the physical pattern of low-density expansion of large urban areas, under market conditions, mainly into the surrounding agricultural areas. Bhatta (2010) says that it is characterized by unplanned and uneven pattern of growth, driven by multitude of processes and leading to in efficient resource utilization. Urban sprawl means more growth than the usual and what makes it different from growth is this excessive nature. Cities tend to growth and planned growth is reached while there is an appropriate proportion between urban growth and urban organism. But when the growth is more than usual, its pressure on the boundaries, city will face new major problems (S. Habibi, et al, 2011). Downs (1999) believes that sprawl does not mean every kind of growth and it has a definite form that can be introduced as unlimited outward extension of development, low density residential and commercial settlements, leapfrog development, fragmentation of powers over land use among many small localities, dominance of transportation by private automotive vehicles, lack of centralized planning or control of land uses, widespread strip commercial development, great fiscal disparities among localities, segregation of types of land use in different zones, and reliance on the trickle-down or filtering process to provide housing to low-income households.

Authors :
Roohi Fatma : Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Govt. College for Girls, Sect.-14 Gurugram.
Vandana Kumari Chauhan : Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Govt. College for Girls, Sect.-14 Gurugram.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2019.39.02.5