Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part E (2023)
Residential crowding and urban planning: A case study of Chandigarh
Residential crowding and urban planning: A case study of Chandigarh
Author(s)
Dr. Anita
AbstractUrban facilities behave like magnets for pulling factors of population (Functions, employment opportunities etc.) towards towns, cities and urban agglomerations. Subsequently, leading to haphazard growth of cities, and emergence of such problems as overcrowding, creation of slums and degradation urban environment due to pressure on all types of natural as well as human resources. It is usually accompanied by social ill health and disorder, characteristic feature of an overcrowded urban milieu throughout the world. This affects even planning of Cities.
Almost every city in the country has a rapidly burgeoning population of slums and pavement developers. In fact, Calcutta and Bombay are among the eight cities, which United Nations had determined as the most crowded Metropolises on the globe. Chandigarh is a planned city, planned to avoid ill effects of growth of population. Present paper is to know the nature and degree of crowding in planned city beautiful, ‘Chandigarh’.
Census of India 1981 has been used to identify the crowded areas on the basis of sector wise density of population. It has been found that with the growth of population over time, population has crossed the limit of estimated population.
How to cite this article:
Dr. Anita. Residential crowding and urban planning: A case study of Chandigarh. Int J Appl Res 2023;9(2):318-322.