Abstract:
Urban morphology is a term which is an integral part of urban ecosystem and depicts
the different characteristics of a city such as settlements, built form, landscapes,
land use, land cover, spatial and built up structure in general and typically to street
pattern, lot (or, in the UK, plot) pattern and building pattern, sometimes referred to
collectively as urban grain.
This study is important because urban morphology approaches human settlements
as generally unconscious products that emerge over long periods, through the
accrual of successive generations of building activity. This leaves traces that
serve to structure subsequent building activity and provide opportunities and
constraints for city-building processes, such as land subdivision, infrastructure
development, or building construction. Development is one of the major attractive
force for inviting people from one part of the city or an area to another. With a
planning area of 601.2 sq.km in 2005. Bhopal had the density which ranks
third lowest in the list of Metropolitan cities having lesser density than the average
density, which is almost half as compared to that of Indore.
So thesis aims at to assess the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban morphology of
the metropolitan cities of Madhya Pradesh having planning area more than
500sq.km for three decades. The objectives to achieve the aim is to identify the
spatio-temporal changes of urban morphology and the related issues for the cities
under consideration, to investigate and analyse the causative factors of dynamics,
to forecast the future dynamics of the cities based on the previous, existing, and
emerging trends. The expected outcome is the detection of the changes with
identifying the causative factors and finally forecasting the future dynamics.The study is carried out in different stages started with the literature review,
understanding the key terminology, desktop study review, site visit, and collection
of data from primary and secondary sources identifying the causative factors which
are indicated through maps and data analysis.
The proposals are in the form of maps depicting the tentative areas of spread
of the built up where development might take place this prediction has been done
through Shannon entropy for checking the spread and through primary survey
conducted and the findings of the master plan .
