Abstract
Urbanization growth in India is increasing rapidly and people migrate to the well- developed area of city for various basis. “Residential Location Preferences” refers to, how location of a house of a particular class of people gets determined by their social, economic aspects and also by potential of particular area chosen for residence. Residential location is one of the driving forces of urban dynamics. The residential location choice process has been studied for several decades using different approaches which in general shows that many factors contribute to the choice of a given location as characteristics of city infrastructure, transportation facilities, housing unit, social and environmental amenities, access to jobs, services and other economic opportunities. Urban citizens intend to live surrounding their work locations and city centre. The assessment of these ward locational preferences is done by developing the Weighted Sum Model (WSM). Study represents locational preferences of residence from MIG-1 and MIG -2 categories of residents in west zone of Surat city.
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