Spatial Distribution Disparity Analysis of Urban Amenities in Municipal Wards Periphery of Jodhpur City

  Dr. S.L.Borana,  Dr. S. K. yadav

The resluts of this study explore the spatial distribution of urban facilities in Jodhpur city. The focus of the study was on the identification of spatial disparity and concentration in the distribution of public amenities and the identification of gaps or deficiencies in different municipal wards of the city. Two facilities were mapped consisting of school and hospital using Remote Sensin data and GIS. Additional information collected from field survey and local municipal authorities that used as attribute data for both the database and visualisation mapping. ArcGIS software was used for linking of spatial and attribute data for querying of information. The visualisation map created shows locations of school and health amenities, road network linkages and capacity of each facility. The reslts shaows that certain wards are more developed in terms of a particular urban facility while others lag far behind the mean level of development of the city.

Keywords- Spatial, Disparity, GIS, Mapping, Urban Amenities

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1704074
Page Number(s) - 474-482
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 4 | November 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Dr. S.L.Borana,  Dr. S. K. yadav,   "Spatial Distribution Disparity Analysis of Urban Amenities in Municipal Wards Periphery of Jodhpur City", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 4, pp.474-482, November 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1704074.pdf