Causes and Effects of Urban Sprawl: A Case Study of Jammu City

Abstract

Abstract: Jammu city has faced unprecedented growth of population. Before fifties Jammu was small town but after 1971 it starts growing both in size and shape. Due to migration from valley and rapid industrialization (between 1989 to 1994) the population of Jammu grew up to 7, 27,940 representing 225.90% increases over 1981 population. The focus of this paper is on the cause and effects of urban sprawl through landsat images. Remote sensing and GIS techniques have been used to analyze the urban sprawl mapping and detect changes of urban Sprawl of Jammu city through different year. Satellite data have been extracted from different sites which are useful in mapping and quantifying the extent of urban area of Jammu city in different time periods. Urban Sprawl is one of the burning issues in Jammu that may boost up at a vigorous rate after 1972 the land use under the agriculture continually declines at a faster rate which presents the threat to the food security for human life. At present Jammu city has sprawling towards its all direction along the main transport routes. In this study Geographical information system (GIS) and different satellites images have been used to extract the buildup area of different year (from 1972 to 2017) which is useful for urban planning.