Urbanization and urban land use change: a study of Bhubaneswar city
Keywords:
urban morphology, land use, urbanization, censusAbstract
The term 'urban Morphology' refers to the study of a city's internal structure which includes the organization of residential buildings, the layout of roads and streets, and the arrangement of various urban spaces like community land, commercial zones, industrial area, open space, recreation areas etc. Morphology also refers to the internal structure of various land uses in urban areas. Land use is a function of land which denotes what is it used for. It is assigning use categories to land areas or allocation of land for specific purposes. Land use provides an understanding of the city structure and its characteristics. The objective of the paper is to study and analyse the changing morphology of Bhubaneswar, the Capital City of Odisha. The study is based on secondary source of data, collected from various sources like Census of India, Master Plan of Bhubaneswar, articles, reports, etc. The analysis is very much qualitative and descriptive in nature. Through this study it was found that area of Bhubaneswar has increased from 25sq km in 1951 to 135 sq km in 2011. In the land use plan during 1968-1988 and 1988-2001 the residential area and green belt zone covered maximum of the total area. In 2005, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation occupied an area of 135 sq km. The land use of BMC in 2005 shows that vacant land with 22.80% of the total area and residential areas with 21.85% of the total area dominated the rest of the land use category. And the agricultural land (12.45%) and vegetation/forest land (11.60%) occupied a considerable portion of the corporation area.
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