Urban Sprawl In Raipur City
The problems created by the haphazard and unrestricted growth of city creates several problems like unhygienic slums, polluted environment, pattern less development of residential, industrial and commercial areas resulting in traffic bottle necks and many other problems, all known and felt by the residents of the city. A particular process leads to a particular pattern. In turn the process itself is dependent on several factors like the history of the region, its site and situation, the social customs, the population, the administration and so on and so forth. An insight into the problems created by the haphazard growth of a city can be gauged from all these different variables and pertains to specific academic fields.
In the present study the spatial growth of the city has been discussed with a focus on dynamics of land use and occupational transformation. The firm believes, that the demographic pressure is the main cause for expansion (sprawl) of the town has prompted an urge to correlate the population with the spatial expansion.
Population acts on land through a spectrum of activities, which can broadly be classified as agricultural, commercial, industrial, transportation and administration etc. Needless to say that the amenities and daily needs of individuals have a prominent impact on urban growth. The factors like, rugged topography, water barriers such as oceans, seas, rivers etc., control the sprawl of the city. The urban process, especially in the developing countries are the result of a very complex system with varied and numerous elements acting in two different directions, one in the direction which provides the ways for growth and leads to engulfment of the surrounding areas and the other which retards and check the expansion.