Shruti

Rapid expansion of urban areas  rise in population and economic growth is causing land‐use changes. These changes are not occurring only in urban but also in rural areas and rural‐urban interface.  Changes are as follows:  • Increase in less and medium density areas in cities which include areas initially under fallow/sandy/scrub lands  • Decline in agriculture land, natural vegetation and waste land  • Shifting of wastelands to rural areas  • Increase in urban sprawl which refers to migration of population from populated towns and cities to low density residential development. The end result is spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land.  Sub‐urbanization  rural–urban fringe,  outskirts or urban hinterland,  landscape interface between town and country, or also as the transition zone where urban and rural uses mix and often clash.  Development of satellite cities i.e. smaller cities that are near to a large metropolitan city.  • As city popu