Document Abstract
Urban morphology of a city is governed by proper disposition of activities expressed as land use
pattern. The urban land use pattern determined to a great extends the functional efficiency of a city. In urban
morphological studies, changes in the urban land use pattern are an important aspect. The urban land use change
in a specific city at particular time and space is determined by the human intervention with the environment
through rapid growth of population, Raipur city in Chhattisgarh state being no exceptional. Raipur city is an
outcome of physical growth process. This research paper is mainly focused on attempt to analyze the changing
pattern of urban land use in Raipur city from 1976 to 2011 and to find out the urban land use change in Raipur
city as well as to Comparative analysis of different urban land use categories in the study area. The present
study is based on both the primary data and secondary data which are obtained through field survey method and
from the Master plan of Raipur city respectively. Raipur city has been experiencing a lot of urban land use
change due to increasing population (major cause of urban land use change). The main findings of these
research paper is that, on the basis of comparative study of urban land use categories in between two selected
study years is seen that the Residential use has been increased from 34.95% to 55.3%, Commercial increased
from 2.2% to 4.8%, Industrial decreased from 16.4% to 11.6%, Public & Semi-public decreased from 32.4% to
12.1%, Recreational increased from 2.2% to 2.7%, Transportation increased from 11.9% to 13.5%. The main
cause of the changing pattern of urban land use in Raipur city from 1976 to 2011 is that, the rapidly growth of
urban population and unrestricted development of Slums areas. The proposed urban land use plan of the Master
plan is to have the best possible uses of urbanisable land and fulfill the present as well as future requirement and
also to meet aspirations of its citizens.