Urban indicators and its correlation in the municipal wards of Neyyattinkara, Kerala

T S Lancelet; U R Gopika

doi:10.53989/bu.ga.v7i1.7

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v7i1.7

Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-36

Original Article

Urban indicators and its correlation in the municipal wards of Neyyattinkara, Kerala

T S Lancelet¹, U R Gopika¹

¹Department of Geography, Sreesankaracharya university of Sanskrit, kalady

Received Date:14 February 2018, Accepted Date:26 May 2018

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The studies on urban sprawling are mainly concentrated on the growing indicators of development of a region. Housing density, Population density, Road networks are the important driving factors behind the expansion of urban land in the study area. Such rapid expansion of urban land in the municipal wards demands more quality land for road networks, housing, and other amenities. Proper identification of demanding centers(municipal wards) in the towns may help to adopt new urban policies to the growing needs of the society. The present study focuses on the urban sprawl of Neyyattinkara municipal wards and it is influencing factors such as the density of the road network, house density, and population density.

Keywords

Urban sprawl, urban indicators, road density, house density, urban development

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