CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 8 1.1 INTRODUCTION 9 1.2 NEED OF THE STUDY: 11 1.3 AIM: 12 1.4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 12 1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 12 1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS: 13 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE AND POLICY REVIEW 14 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 Development Models 15 2.2.1 Concentric Zone Theory: 15 2.2.2 Central Place Theory: 16 2.3 DEVELOPMENT THEORIES: 18 2.3.1 Chapin.s Decision Analysis: 18 2.3.2 Peter Amato.s Urban Settlement Study: 19 2.4 Review of Housing Policies in India: 21 2.4.1 National Housing and Habitat policy: 21 2.4.2 Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) 22 2.4.3 Five year Plans: 22 2.5 Conclusion 25 CHAPTER 3 STUDY AREA, AHMEDABAD 26 3.1 INTRODUCTION 27 3.1.1 Historical Overview: 28 3.1.2 Geographic Location and Regional Setting: 29 3.1.3 Physical Characteristics: 30 3.2 Demography: 31 3.3 HOUSING SITUATION AND STOCK: 33 3.4 EXISTING HOUSING TYPOLOGIES: 34 3.4.2 Chawls and Slums: 36 3.4.3 Individual Bungalows: 37 3.5 SPATIAL GROWTH AND SPRAWL OF THE CITY 41 3.6 PLANNING HISTORY OF AHMEDABAD: 45 3.7 CONCLUSION: 47 CHAPTER 4 DATA COLLECTION 48 4.1 AN OVERVIEW: 49 4.2 INTRODUCTION TO PARAMETERS: 49 4.3 PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION: 50 4.4 SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION 51 4.4.1 Property Tax data from Tax department 51 4.4.2 Building permission data from AMC 52 4.4.3 Land Scan data: 53 4.4.4 Spatial data of Ahmedabad from AUDA 55 4.5 Methodology for Analysis 55 4.5.1 Spatio Temporal Change in Housing patterns 56 CHAPTER 5: DATA ANALYSIS 61 5.1 AN OVERVIEW: 62 5.2 APARTMENT CATEGORY 63 5.3 Individual Bungalows 68 5.4 Gamthal residential and N.A Plots for Residential 70 5.5 Tenements and Row-Houses 72 5.6 Size Wise Distribution 74 5.7 NEW PROPERTIES:DIRECTION OF GROWTH 76 CHAPTER 6 SYNTHESIS 78 6.1 INTRODUCTION 79 6.2 FINDINGS FROM THE STUDY: 80 6.3 DISCUSSION: 84 6.4 WAY FORWARD: 88 Bibliography 89 Annexure: 9