Understanding Demographic Dynamics: A Case of Chinhat, Lucknow

Abstract

Abstract: Demographics play a vital role in the development of any area. Demographic dynamics depict the decision-making capacity of governance, hence it’s a vital part of predicting the future growth of an area in terms of its socio-economic context. The demography of an area can also help in understanding the cultural aspect and how it is being oriented in the built environment. The paper talks about the demographic dynamics of Lucknow and its ward level of integration to help understand the local area-specific ward-level population change concerning the city. Different mapping techniques are used to understand the population distribution along ward 35 which is a peri-urban region of the city where the rural context was available within the municipal boundary such as agricultural fields as well as semi-pucca houses and its context in an urban area are the most difficult to segregate in terms of urban planning development scenario. In local area planning of any ward level integration demography becomes the most vulnerable topic to analyse due to lack of data on population from the past resources due to a mismatch of ward numbers from the district census handbook of Lucknow from 1991 to 2011 and planning for 2022 with lack of 2021 data has become a huge difficulty. So, the paper analyses every data with proper alignment and manual survey conducted in ward 35 in favour of local area development proposals. This concludes the paper with the way forward to investigate the population dynamic for every ward of Lucknow for the urban planning community