Department of Geography & GIS
Geo-Eye
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-11
Original Article
R Hanumantharaju1, Ashok D Hanjagi2
1Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru
2Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bengaluru
Received Date:07 March 2018, Accepted Date:24 April 2019
Change in any form and any society in any circumstance is unavoidable; it has become part of urban growth. An Urban City is a location characterized by a high dense human population and vast human-built features compared to the areas surrounding it. Bengaluru is the second-fastest-growing city in Asia. Today Bengaluru is facing many issues and challenges because of the fastest growth of Urbanization. Bengaluru has a vast number of opportunities in terms of employment, education, investment, and favorable climatic conditions attracting people from various places. This research paper aims to assess the Spatio-temporal growth and development of urban growth in Bengaluru City. The physical growth of Bangalore city examines from the origin of Bangalore from Nadaprabhu Kempegowda period. The data for the research has been obtained from spatial and non-spatial data sources. Secondary data have been used to write the research papers. QGIS software has used to prepare the maps to show the growth and development of the Bangalore city region. The growth identified many merits and demerits which affects the Bangalore city in the future.
Keywords
Urban, growth, development
© 2018 Hanumantharaju & Hanjagi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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