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Nagpur is seen as one of the rapidly developing central India’s metro city and also ranks third in the list of the urban centres in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune. Nagpur enjoys the privilege of being termed as the richest, greenest and city with latent potential. Nagpur is an important urban centre in the Vidarbha region. It is the administrative capital of the district. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is the only corporation in the district with a jurisdictional area of about

A STUDY OF MIGRATION IN MAHARASHTRA (2007-2008) “ If you don’t have migration you wouldn’t be able to fill important jobs to keep the economy going” (McKinley, n.d.)1 Introduction Human Migration is defined as the movement of people from one place to another in the quest for a better life.The movement could be very well across the borders of a country or within a country. It is not a new concept and has occurred throughout the human history, the first human movement being from their origins in

arrangement in the city like squares, streets, monuments etc. And architectural works and buildings also can identify as members of the place identification (Birol, 2007). Sense of place can be defined as the experience of place is fundamentally unique to each of us (T. Phil, T. Susan (2003). And Sense of place results from our experience, our past and present

makes it different from the urban growth (S. Habibi, 2011). Urban sprawl is the major issue of the cities all over the world. It is a universal problem faced by both developed and developing countries. Due to urban sprawl cities expand beyond their city boundary, which becomes major threat to sustainability and quality of life (Kaur, 2008). There are many causes, which contribute in the expansion of the city beyond its boundary, i.e. population growth, urbanization, rising incomes, single use zoning,

better to grow up in a small town. Other people believe it’s better to grow up in a large city. I believe growing up in a large city exceeds being raised in a small town for numerous reasons. One reason is that the large city provides education that is essential to obtain an occupation. On the contrary, a rural town is unable to provide schooling of quality as high as the great city. Another reason is that the city is able to comfort its citizens with its countless essential services and amenities. Whereas

Rural areas are those which are not fully developed and lack basic facilities such as villages and hamlets. Urban areas are those which are fully developed and provide basic facilities as well as luxuries to the people living here such as towns and cities. Being an agricultural society, 80% of the people in Pakistan live in rural areas. The remaining % lives in urban areas. Urban areas completely differ from rural areas in Pakistan. URBAN SOCIETY Urban society is highly structured society. It has

INTRODUCTION Currently, most of the world’s population is living in urban areas which have implications for land use and land changes, use of natural resources, and the absorption of rural labour in urban areas. The rural and urban interdependence means the flow of natural resources, agricultural commodity, money, information and services between rural and urban areas. Moreover, the rural population is adopting the urban style and behaviour or is becoming socially urbanized. According to Steinberg

sections of towns and cities. These towns and cities are homes to people who have looked upon their preferences to decide where to locate their homes. Individuals take into account the advantages and disadvantages of both locations as well as the opportunities presented. Hence, there are several similarities and differences between big cities and small towns. To begin, a significant difference between big cities and small towns is the cost of living. The cost of living in a big city is much higher than

behavior and social relationships which occur in a society as a result of people living in towns and cities (Nduwayezu, 2015). Oguz (2004) argued that urbanization has been increasing since World War II, and has not shown any sign of decline and is likely to continue in to the twenty first century. Fast urbanization has led to a conversion of rural area in to built-up areas and loss of green spaces in cities. These changes in land use and land cover concern loss of agricultural, forest land and loss of

the speed, and compression to reference the leisure filled Modern City, while trying to keep pace with the advances(Technological and Theoretical), which were breaking the Traditional way of life. Examples of this include; Umberto Boccioni’s, The City Rises (1910); Claude Monet’s, Boulevard des Capucines (1873); and Pablo Picasso’s, Absinthe Drinker (1901). By embracing the technological and theoretical changes of the Modern City, artists transitioned away from what was known as the conventional