January 2016

Population growth, urban expansion and housing scenario in Srinagar City, J&K, India

Burgeoning population growth and wild urban sprawl has constituted serious problems especially in developing countries with a huge demand in housing stock. This phenomenon is more aggressive in historical cities like Srinagar. In such cities, there exists large scale variations in housing scenario due to differential growth and expansion patterns from core to periphery of these cities. This paper attempts to analyze the...

Author(s): Nissar A. Kuchay, M. Sultan Bhat and Nuzhat Shafi