VW Engineering international, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, 12-17 (2019)
Received: Sept. 02, 2019
Accepted: Sept. 24, 2019
Published online: Sept. 25, 2019
Sorath Abbasi 1,2
Zulfiqar Ali Lashari 1,2
M.Y. Mangi 1
1Department of City and Regional Planning, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan.
2Graduate School of Urban Studies, Hanyang University Seoul, South Korea.
Corresponding Author E-mail: sorath16@hanyang.ac.kr
Abstract: Cities are central to the process of socio-economic growth and innovation. However, when these cities undergo through an unplanned urbanization process, they often molded themselves into numerous urban problems. Once these urban areas are expanding beyond their periphery limits, significant changes in the land-use regulation and violation of the bylaws occur. This may dramatically affect the built environment. Thus, this research is an attempt is to highlight the trends of unplanned urban development and quantify their impacts on the built environment of Qasimabad town in Pakistan. An informal approach of land-use assessment was used to determine changes and its impacts from the years 1988–2013. The study has used a wide range of substantive examples and targeted cases studies, which were helpful to identify urban land-use change and suggested a possible strategy to resolve them. The results illustrated that land-use changes were mainly driven by anthropogenic activities. Results also shows the major cause of land-use change was lack of law and enforcement and proper policies to leverage long-term consequences. Policy implications can be drawn from this research for the future development that should be based on the functionality of local environment and social aspects of urban areas.
