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Examine the driving forces of changing urban morphology of million-plus cities of India with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Settlements

Urban morphology is the town plan read as three form complexes — the street system, the plot pattern and the building fabric — the analytical division established by M.R.G. Conzen, taken together with the land use draped over them.

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  • Economic restructuring relocates the growth pole
  • Land regulation, not technology, builds the section
  • Transport technology writes the corridor
  • The outcome: verticalisation and a polycentric form
  • Redevelopment, gentrification and the heritage brake
  • Logistics and digital land uses
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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