Exploring the dynamics of expanding cities in punjab in context of the formal & informal sector impacts
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2020
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
his project is about the growth trends of the major cities of the Punjab. Major cities that have been
selected for this research is according to the highest population. Furthermore, the cities have been divided
into two groups of five cities i.e. Northern Punjab & Southern Punjab. The aspects of the growth that has
been studied in this research are the informal and formal growth of these 10 cities. The Time frame for
this growth patterns have been selected from the 1998-2020. Supervised Classification method has been
performed to identify the change in land use. On this basis the area of the cities has been calculated in
different classes of land uses i.e. Agriculture, Built Up, Water Bodies and Barren Land. This research
highlights the two type of development i.e. Formal and Informal Development. Formal Development
include the Approved development by the Government Bodies while Informal Development include
Illegal or Unapproved Development. Other major aspect that it covers is that how these formal and
informal development is zoned. Then different types of comparison have been done on this data collected
through primary and secondary data.