Abstract

Multi Criteria Analysis to Predict Urban Sprawl for Rajkot City
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Shaily Gandhi, Anjana Vyas

Rajkot is 400 years old city which has developed from a small hamlet to a prosperous town. Urban Sprawl has caused major land use changes in last few decades due to which a necessity for strategic planning for the temporal sprawl has been demanded. Factors like roads, drainage, water supply, land use, population, slope and out growths have a great impact on urban sprawl. Multi criteria analysis has been carried out using these factors to predict the probability for urban sprawl.