SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESIDENTIAL GROWTH OF LAHORE CITY

Abstract

Spatiao-Temporal residential growth indicates the spatial and temporal proportions of land cover/land use change at the level of the urban landscape.Lahore has undergone various changes over the years. The largest perhaps being the scale in its crowding and the urban growth. Its rural landscape is being swallowed with a great pace due to invasion of urban areas causing urban growth of unprecedented nature and this insertion into the urban arena is without any urban policy both at the provincial and local level. In order to understand the spatial and temporal pattern of residential growth of Lahore, which is necessary for future urban planning and policy management, current study of Lahore is done