Center for Environmental Planning & Technology (CEPT)

DELINEATION OF AHMEDABAD METROPOLITAN REGION

By: Prof Utpal Sharma

Perceived Objectives are: (Jenks et al., 1996; Williams et al., 2000)

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The Concept and The Objectives

Today it prevails in most planning and city management policies in Europe, USA and Australia. In USA it’s called TODs or Neotraditional Towns promoted through Smart Growth movement.

Top 20 Urban Area ranked by Density

(p/sq.km.)Hong Kong 29,432Coimbatore 29,161Meerut 26,527Mumbai 26,355Chittagong 26,012Chongqing 25,949Rajkot 23,316Indore 22,740Jabalpur 22,526Khulna 22,143Nagpur 21,773Dhaka 21,624Kanpur 21,577Ahmedabad 21,057Allahabad 21,022Lucknow 20,545Patna 20,074Nashik 20,048Varanasi 19,879Vijayawada 19,795

Top 20 Urban Area ranked by

CAGR (%)Beihai 10.58Ghaziabad 5.20Sana'a 5.00Surat 4.99Kabul 4.74Lagos 4.44Faridabad 4.44Dar es Salaam 4.39Chittagong 4.29Toluca 4.25Dubai 4.03Luanda 3.96Nasik 3.90Kinshasa 3.89Nairobi 3.87Dhaka 3.79Patna 3.72Rajkot 3.63Jaipur 3.60Gujranwala 3.493

Cities on the MoveFollowing database from a set of 278 million plus population cities, explains the dynamics of cities.Top 20 Urban Areas

ranked by 2005 Population

Tokyo/Yokohama

35,530,000

New York19,712,0

00

Seoul/Incheon19,500,0

00

Jakarta18,200,0

00

Mexico City18,100,0

00

São Paulo 17,800,0

00Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto

17,250,000

Mumbai17,078,0

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Metro Manila 16,750,0

00

Cairo15,750,0

00

Delhi15,250,0

00

Moscow14,000,0

00

Los Angeles13,829,0

00

Shanghai13,600,0

00

Kolkata13,217,0

00

Buenos Aires12,740,0

00

Beijing11,250,0

00

Shenzhen11,000,0

00

Rio de Janeiro10,900,0

00

Istanbul10,500,0

00

Top 20 Urban Areas ranked by 2005

Land Area (sq.km.)

New York11,2

64Tokyo/Yokohama

7,835

Chicago5,95

2

Zibo 5,93

8

Los Angeles5,81

2

Boston5,50

1

Atlanta5,08

3

Cali 4,97

8

Nagoya4,66

2

Philadelphia4,66

1

Zaozhuang 4,55

0

Moscow3,88

5Dallas/Fort Worth

3,644

Xian 3,55

0Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto

3,497

Houston3,35

5

Detroit3,26

7

Jakarta3,10

8

Beijing3,04

3

New York3,04

3

(Source: www.world-gazetteer.com, www.demographia.com, UITP 2001 Report, www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea, www.alain-bertaud.com, FTANT Database & FHWA Highway Statistics 2005, Asian Cities Database by ITPD, WRI/EMBARQ & CAI-Asia 2005, JnNURM CDPs, ITPS Public Transport for Sustainable Mobility in Asian Cities, DTRS: Australian Trends to 2020

4•CAGR is high for recent developing cities particularly smaller cities of Developing Economies of the World particularly Asian cities with Density Directly Correlated to CAGR by 0.36.

India

China

EU

L. America

Predominant Developing Economies

5•Per Capita Petroleum Consumption high for sprawled or rich cities of Developed Economies of the World particularly American, European and Middle East Asian cities, Inversely Correlated to Density

Asia

Australia

Europe

N. America

S. America

Predominant Developed Economies

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•Public Transport seems efficient in cities with high intensity or land management/market compulsion with Inverse Correlation to Per Capita Petroleum Share by -0.35

Predominant Dense or Land Constrained Economies

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Kolkata Bangalore London MexicoJohannes

burgBerlin

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GUJARAT AHMEDABAD URBANISATION TREND

GUJARAT 3RD MOST URBANISED STATE

38 % URBAN POPULATION INCREASING TO 50 % BY 2021.

60 % OF URBAN POPULATION CONCENTRATED IN THE PRINCIPAL CORRIDOR OF MEHSANA –AHMEDABAD- VALSAD INCREASING TO 72 % BY 2021.

AHMEDABAD ACCOUNTS FOR 52 % OF STATE’S GDP AND 35 % OF SECONDARY AND TERTIARY PRODUCTION.

CRITICAL ISSUES :STRUCTURED AND GUIDED CONSOLIDATION OF THE URBAN CORRIDORS IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY AND ECONOMICAALY SUSTAINBALE MANNER

Greater Ahmedabad

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2011 2035

1 Crore People, 800 - 900 Sq. Km60 Lakh People, 500 Sq. Km

A R C H I T E C T S A N D P L A N N E R S

VASTU SHILPA CONSULTANTS

CYBERABAD : REGIONAL CONTEXT

A R C H I T E C T S A N D P L A N N E R S

VASTU SHILPA CONSULTANTS

CYBERABAD : REGIONAL CONTEXT

1 0 1 3 5 10KM

SCALE 1:250000

GROWTH BY 2001

GROWTH BY 2011

GROWTH BY 2021

UPTO 75 LACUPTO 25 LACUPTO 10 LACUPTO 5 LAC

NODES

1 0 1 3 5 10KM

SCALE 1:250000

QUTBULLAPURRAMCHANDRAPURAM

UPPARPALLY

PATANCHERU

KHARMANGHAT

FALAKNUMA PALACE

SURARAMGUNLA POCHAMPALLY

KUKATPALLY, APHBSECUNDRABAD

CYBERABAD

GUNLA

MEDCHAL

KUSHAIGUDA

GHATKESAR

L.B.NAGAR

HABSHIGUDA

SHAMSABAD

HYDERABAD

To Mumbai N.h.no -9

To Mumbai (Broad Guage)

OSMAN SAGAR

HIMAYAT SAGAR

To Bangalore N.h.no-7

HUSSAIN SAGAR

To Nagpur N.h.-7

To Manmad

To Narsapur

To Kazipet

To Vijaywada N.h.no -9

To Nagarjuna Sagar

To Vikharabad

VASTU SHILPA CONSULTANTS"SANGATH" THALTEJ ROAD AHMEDABAD-380054 PHONE 7454537-39 FAX 079-7452006

CYBERABAD ENCLAVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

HUDA : ENVISAGED SPATIAL GROWTH BY 2021- ALTERNATIVE 1 ( CONCENTRIC MODEL)

LEGEND

DEVELOPMENT AREA

ROADS PROPOSED IN 1980 MASTER PLANROADS PROPOSED IN 1980 MASTER PLANNATIONAL HIGHWAYS

BROAD GAUGE RAILWAY LINE

METER GAUGE RAILWAY LINE

WATER BODIES

RAILWAY STATIONS

WATER TANK

AIRPORT

URBANISATION MODEL HYDERABAD : MULTIPLE NUCLEI ( TRI CITY CONCEPT )

BELAPUR

KALYAN

THANE

SOUTH MUMBAI

IFBC, BKC

Mumbai

: : Bandra-Kurla Complex,

International Finance and Trade Centre

AUDA GUDA AGGOLOMERATE : 2001COMPOSITE POPULATION : 48 LACSWORKERS : 17 LACS

Industries : 4 LacsCommerce: 12 Lacs

AUDA GUDA AGGOLOMERATE : 2021COMPOSITE POPULATION : 94 LACSWORKERS : 32 LACS

Industries : 7 LacsCommerce: 25 Lacs

ADDITIONAL POPULATION BY 2021 : 46 LACSADDITIONAL JOBS BY 2021 : 15 LACS ASSUMING 35 % POPLTN & JOBS CONTAINED IN ECOPOLIS +NATURE CITYPOPULATION IN ECOPOLIS + NATURE CITY : 16 LACS

ECOPOLIS : 10 + LACSNATURE CITY : 5 + LACS

JOBS IN ECOPOLIS + NATURE CITY : 5.4 LACS

ECOPOLIS : 3.7 LACS NATURE CITY : 1.7 LACS

ECOPOLIS- NATURE CITY LARGELY FALL WITHIN GUDA

PRESENT ZONES WITHIN ECOPOLIS :

•Agriculture

•Commercial

•Residential

SITE CONTEXT : AUDA GUDA DP

ECOPOLIS LANDUSE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT

Ahmedabad Urban Land Use Simulation

2011-2021

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No

. Land Use

Area

(Ha.) % FSI util.**

BUA

(Ha)

1 Residential

General/

Gamtal/Village

11119.0

3

39.42

% 0.61

6802.8

4

2 Commercial748.64 2.65% 0.70

524.0

5

3 Public/Semi Public 1014.55 3.60% 0.40 402.71

4Industrial 3579.50

12.69

% 0.55

1953.

60

5 AMC Plots 467.18 1.66% 0.50 233.59

6

Open / Vacant

Land 4514.36

16.00

%

7

Yard Burial

Ground / Grave 86.54 0.31%

8

Roads/Railway

land 2204.65 7.82%

9 Water bodies 4475.55

15.87

% 

 

TOTAL28210.0

0

100.0

0%

9916.

79

*Revised Draft Dev. Plan, AUDA –

2011 AD Part I, Vol. 2

Gross FSI

util. =0.35

** Delphi Technique

N

o. Land Use

Area

(Ha.) % FSI util.**

BUA

(Ha)

1Residential

23548.

70

57.76

% 0.43

10192

.17

2 Commercial 1334.98 3.27% 0.44 584.64

3Industrial

3780.8

3

9.27

% 0.62

2345.

50

4 Public & Semi public 2585.67 6.34% 0.21 549.42

5

Open

Space/Gardens/Recre

ation

5388.7

6

13.22

%

6 Roads and railways 2669.67 6.55%

7Water bodies

(including rivers)

1461.9

7

3.59

%    

TOTAL40770.5

8

100.0

0%  

13671.

72

*Revised Draft Dev. Plan, AUDA – 2011

AD Part I, Vol. 2

Gross FSI

util. =0.34

** Delphi Technique

No

. Land Use

Area

(Ha.) % FSI util.**

BUA

(Ha)

1 Residential11176.

10

39.62

%

0.80 8968.

69

2 Commercial 2364.70 8.38% 0.83 1953.1

7

3 Industrial 1402.1

8

4.97% 1.41 1974.

70

4 Public & Semi public 3393.52 12.03

%

0.63 2150.6

2

5

Open

Space/Gardens/Recre

ation

4231.5

0

15.00

%

   

6 Roads and railways 4687.80 16.62

%

   

7Water bodies

(including rivers)

954.20 3.38%    

TOTAL28210.

00

100.0

0%

  15047

.18

*Revised Draft Dev. Plan, AUDA – 2011

AD Part I, Vol. 2

Gross FSI

util. =0.53

** Delphi Technique

No

. Land Use

Area

(Ha.) % FSI util.**

BUA

(Ha)

1 Residential9491.8

2

33.65

% 1.18

11486

.05

2 Commercial 2655.12 9.41% 1.12

2986.2

0

3 Industrial 1310.9

2

4.65

% 1.75

2294.

11

4 Public & Semi public 3277.30

11.62

% 1.00

3186.0

4

5

Open

Space/Gardens/Recrea

tional

5260.3

2

18.65

%    

6 Roads and railways 5260.32

18.65

%    

7Water bodies

(including rivers) 954.20

3.38

%    

TOTAL28210.0

0

100.0

0%  

19952.

40

Gross FSI

util. =0.71

** Delphi Technique