Scenarios of Urban Land Use Pattern: A Case Study of Raipur City, Chhattisgarh State, India

Abstract

Land is the prime resource for human beings. Since the beginning of human existence of man has directed his activities with reference to earth resources. Urban land use is one of the most important components of the urban life support system, which have been over used and even abused over the centuries. A city is an outcome of physical growth process and reflects man’s effort and achievements in shaping his environment during the entire period of its development. Quality of urban life and functional efficiency of a city is governed by proper disposition of activities expressed as urban land use. In respect to the urban morphological studies, the urban land use pattern are based on morphological structure, population density, land uses in various sectors, administrative set up etc. The Study area Raipur city is situated in the heart of Chhattisgarh state. This area is extended from 21̊ 14' 14"N latitudes to 81̊ 38' 5"E longitudes. The main objectives of the present study are to analysis the scenarios of urban land use pattern of Raipur city in 2011 with reference to past decades as well as proposed urban land use pattern. The present research paper has been based on both the primary data and secondary data which are acquired through field survey method and the Master Plan (2011) of Raipur city (town and country planning department, Raipur, Chhattisgarh State) respectively. Statistical analysis and cartographic techniques are use to represent the scenarios of urban land use pattern of Raipur city. The main findings of this research paper is that, the Raipur city are divided into 6 categories of urban land uses; Residential-56.3%,Industrial-11.6%,Commercial-4.8%,Public&semi-public-12.1%,Recreational-2.7% and Transportation-13.5% which is different from past decades due to the rapid growth of urban population as well as immigration in Raipur city.