Urban Land use patterns defined the internal structure of the town. In rural areas, lands are used mostly for primary activities whereas land is used mostly for non-primary activities in urban areas. The following is the land-use status of India.
India's land use in 1993( as per NCERT data):
- Forest: 22.44%
- Agricultural uses:46.61%
- Non-agricultural uses for urban area: 7.23%
- Barren and uncultivated: 16 %
- Fallow land( left uncultivated ) : 7.88 %
As per the 2011 census: 31.16 % urban population.
Urban lands are uses for:
- Residents
- Slum area
- Low-income residents
- Middle-income residents
- High-income residents
- Factories or industries
- Marketing or businesses areas
- Parks
- Transport: rail, road, stations, airports
The following models explain the land use pattern of the particular cities:
- Concentric ring model by E. Burgess
- Sectoral model by Hoyt
- Multiple nucleus model by Ullman and Harris
UPSC previous year question:
- Bring out the contrast between the internal structure of the pre-industrial and industrial cities. ( UPSC 1999)
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