CONTENTSDISSERTATION TITLE: I CERTIFICATE II UNDERTAKING III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IV CONTENTSV List of figures: VII List of Tables: VII List of maps: VII Abbreviations: VIII Executive Summary: IX 1: Introduction 1 1.1 Need for the study 2 1.2 Explaining hypothesis/ Theoretical framework 4 1.2.1 Compact City Concept: 4 1.2.2 Urban Development strategy in Indian cities: 5 1.2.3 An over view of current urban planning process in Indian cities: 6 1.3 Research Questions 7 1.4 Aim: 7 1.4.1 Objectives: 7 1.5 Methodology: 7 1.6 Limitations: 8 2: Compact city and the urban form debate 9 2.1 Introduction: 10 2.2 Historical background: 11 2.3 Different urban forms: 12 2.3 Current scenario: 14 2.4 Understanding the Sprawl as anti compact agent: 17 2.4.1 Compact city Vs Urban sprawl: 19 2.5 Compact city as a solution 20 3: Urban Planning Process in Indian context 21 3.1 Introduction 22 3.2 An overview of urban planning process in India: 23 3.3 Urban planning process in India and compact city concept: 25 4: Ahmedabad 26 4.1 Introduction- Overview of Ahmedabad 27 4.1.1 Location and regional setting: 27 4.1.2 Topographic and climatic features: 28 4.1.3 Demography: 29 4.1.4 Economic features: 30 4.1.5 Historic milestones in development of Urban Ahmedabad: 31 4.2 Historical background of Planning in Ahmedabad: 34 4.3 Why Ahmedabad? 36 5: Urban growth analysis 42 5.1 Introduction: 43 5.2 Understanding the Planning Process in Ahmedabad: 43 5.2.1 Planning in the past: 45 5.2.2 Delineation of Ahmedabad metropolitan region: 46 5.2.3 Assumptions made to arrive at proposal: 47 5.3 Critical appraisal of basic policies and principles adopted for formulating the Development Proposal. 50 5.3.1 Critique on the main features of the Draft Development Plan 2001 and 2011: 52 5.4 Comparative analysis: 55 6: Conclusions and recommendations for next Development Plan: 64 6.1 Conclusions: 65 6.2 Recommendations: 67 Works Cited: 69