Urban dynamics assessment of Ghaziabad as a suburb of National Capital Region, India

Abstract

With the realisation of the substantial changes made by Homo sapiens on earth dynamics; initiated a proposal of geological time scale ahead of the Holocene named as the Anthropocene, i.e., the Human Age. The conditions of the Anthropocene have redacted in a way by the optical modes of analysis; being made through data interpretation, changes experienced through satellite imagery, the consistent updating of climatic change, and the altered man–environment relationship across ages. Urban spatial areas have expanded in an accelerated speed during the last few decades, and rates of urban population growth are higher than the overall growth in most cities because urban areas are the locus of economic activity and transportation nodes. The study focuses on the increasing burden on the metropolitan cities like Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) of India—thereby inducing analogous effects over the suburban conurbation through ceaseless outgrowths. These patterns of urban densification and internal modifications are of major concern to sustainable development because they represent the physical manifestations of a range of social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions associated with urban dynamics. Considering the altered man–environment relationship; this paper deals with the urban assessment of Ghaziabad for the years—2001, 2006, 2011, and 2015. It further focuses on the directional change of the region as a suburb of NCR in context with buffer zone analysis and Shannon’s entropy approach.