A Study on Housing Growth in West Zone of Surat City

  Jayrajsinh V Vansadiya,  Himanshu J. Padhya

One of the most common problems faced by the developing countries like India is housing. Housing is one of the most important parameter for quality of life and almost everyone desires good housing. After independence Surat has been growing at rapid pace continuously and hence always nominated on top charts almost all other cities of country. It is its unique nature that subjects the city to variety of interesting problems or situation in housing. .West Zone of Surat city has been selected for the study of housing growth pattern. The selected study area is having a different nature in the housing growth in terms of old and new area after the city limit extension. The study area is based on the objective of analyzing the residential growth through different types of analysis. The methodology adopted is based on the literature reviewed and field survey has been conducted which consist of socio-economic survey of household in the study area. The analytical approach consists of the various building form analysis, land value analysis, floor area- income relationship and work place distance analysis for the housing growth pattern of the study area.

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Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1402266
Page Number(s) - 2884-2890
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue 2 | June 2014
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Jayrajsinh V Vansadiya,  Himanshu J. Padhya,   "A Study on Housing Growth in West Zone of Surat City", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue 2, pp.2884-2890, June 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1402266.pdf