Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Saima Allah Yar

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• Research Article
  Study of Urban Sprawl and its Social and Environmental Impacts on Urban Society in Latifabad Town, Hyderabad, Pakistan
  Author(s): Saima Allah YarSaima Allah Yar
  
  Urban sprawl expansion is becoming a serious problem of many urban areas due to not much a picture of sprawl in priority, urban areas lack the infra structure and basic facilities like treated water supply, electricity, sanitation services. By the year 2016, Latifabad town accommodates 0.7 millions, which was essentially proposed for 60,000 people. Some of the problems of Latifabad town include excessive traffic congestion; pollution, increment infrastructure costs for community services; fragmentation of housing with low density areas and increase in energy consumption that causes social segregation and environmental degradation. For evaluating social and environmental impacts of sprawl, various factors were derived based on socio-environmental impacts. Quantitative results were generated using Yeh’s index of satisfaction and software SPSS; which were based on questionnaires ha.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-784X.1000290

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