Spatial planning and policies of developing and developed cities using RS & GIS
Student name: Ms Ginni Mehta
Guide: Mr V.S.P.Sinha
Year of completion: 2011
Host Organisation: Regional Remote Sensing Centre-Central/NRSC/ISRO
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr Subrata N. Das
Abstract: Today one in two people in the world lives in city, this continuing trend
accelerating since the late 90‟s.although urbanisation is phenomena common
to all five continents, the course it follows bear a strong imprint of social,
economic and environmental conditions. These condition lead to urban
concentration and growth of large cities, changes in land use and organization
and governance. Although urbanization is the driving force for
modernization, economic growth and development, there is increasing
concern about the effects of expanding cities, principally on human health,
livelihoods and the environment. These changes cause urban regions to
become warmer than their rural surroundings, forming an "island" of higher
temperatures in the landscape. Many policy instruments and robust scientific
evidence in last two decades have emphasized the critical necessity of green
areas within urban social-ecological systems to ameliorate several problems
of city-living. As this project has tried to demonstrate, benefits of urban green
spaces are wide-ranging including physical and psychological health, social
cohesion, climate change mitigation, pollution abatement, biodiversity
conservation and provisioning of the ecosystem goods and service to urban
inhabitants. Accordingly, this project briefly examines the present status of
urban forestry across the world, and draws lessons that can be applied for the
governance of urban greens paces during the development of Jaipur as a
world-class city in Rajasthan by incorporating the different techniques and
methods of remote sensing and GIS and bringing a new planning approach
and policies suggesting in sustainability of green space and reducing urban
heat effect in a city.
KEYWORDS: Urban Heat, Green Space, Standards and Land Surface
Temperature
