Urban Sprawl: A Case Study of Lucknow City

Cities often experience growth either physically, by population, or by a combination of both. Urban sprawl in recent times is a subject of popular debate between policy makers and environmentalists in context of the status of urban people and the state of the human ecology. With the high pace of social and economic development resulting growth of urban population, lack of infrastructure, congested traffic, environmental degradation and shortage of housing became the major issues faced by the urban areas. The present paper is an attempt to identify and analyze the rate of urban growth, with a focus to explore the morphological structure and characteristic of urban sprawl in Lucknow City (capital city of the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, situated in the middle of Gangetic Plain and spreads on the banks of the river Gomati, a left bank tributary of river Ganga) arising out of dynamic interaction between different urban functions along with historical, social, economic and administrative factors based on primary and secondary data.