Urban Expansion and Characteristic Features of Suburbanization Process in Aligarh, A Case Study

By : Salma Sultana , Shahab Fazal

Page No: 194-213

Abstract
India is urbanizing and future estimates also predict accelerated urbanization. This urbanization is leading to massive transformation in physical and socio economic environment as well as demographic and livelihood dynamics making suburbanization process a hotspot for transformations. Urban expansion is inevitable and many other issues like land shortage, housing shortfall, and congested transit and stressed existing basic amenities such as water, power and open spaces of the urban settlement. Urban land use planning is the fundamental of its formation and is so important that some urban planners in developed countries consider it as equivalent to urban planning.

Thus strategic land use planning is an important tool to guide the Urban Planning. It helps maintain its focused, long- term vision to the urban mission and purpose. Understanding urban development, its strengths and weaknesses are important in the strategic planning. Awareness of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) are critical for urban development plans and programs.

The aim of the current research is to examine the pace and direction of city expansion. Further, it try to assess the active suburbanization process and highlight the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats on land transformation based on the stakeholders opinion in the suburban areas. The study is based on both primary and secondary sources of data adopting descriptive analytical approach to draw inference on land use dynamics highlighting the relationships among different components and also applied likert scale techniques to quantify the human behavior that help to scaling the response of the various stakeholders.

Authors :
Salma Sultana
Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

Shahab Fazal
Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/ATNAGI.2021.41.01.12