TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF AHMEDABAD

Urban agglomeration is the million plus city which deals with the industrialization, globalisation and heavy transportation services and many other urban activities. Land use changes and their influences put forth in urbanisation of Ahmedabad city. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the ground truth situation of Ahmedabad urban agglomeration and its fringe area expansion with sustainable use of resources. The city of Ahmedabad and the outer sprawl area are the pivot centre for assuming the variability of transformation in urban growth with sustainable use of resources. The current study of Ahmedabad analysed the urbanisation and sustainable use of resources with using census data from 2001 & 2011. The study divulge that the urban fringe transformation occurs with sustainable use of resources or not. However as per the data of census directorate of census, Ahmedabad total population was 6,361,084 in the year of 2011 and covers 464 sq. km whereas 1866 sq. km area of urban agglomeration in 2020, population increased by 7,868,633 and covers 1866 sq. km. its seems that the sustainable use of land are highly required. Ahmedabad human settlement are expanding towards its fringe area in which it includes Daskroi, Sanand, Kalol, Gandhinagar, kadi, dehgam, mehmedabad, kheda, bavla, dholka. These taluka’s forming the suburb boundary of Ahmedabad city. Industrialization in Ahmedabad mainly takes place in naroda, narol area where the carbon emission is maximum due to which the problem of air pollution is increased.so as per the “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS” green industries should be promote in Ahmedabad in sustainable manner. Urban fringe transformation take place in rapid form for which the sustainable growth are required. Daskroi taluka is located 14 km towards south from Ahmedabad city where the urban expansion taking place. All though the urban planning and sustainable growth occurs in Ahmedabad but instead of these it stands for maintainable growth of city. Ahmedabad is located at 23.03°N 72.58°E with the average elevation of 53 meter. It is a metropolitan city of India where all the urban activities are taking place which shows the inter relationship between human and nature.

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Keywords: Urban Agglomeration, Sustainable Growth, Urbanisation, Environmental Maintenance, Urban Fringe Expansion, Climate Change.


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