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Book Review: Amit Garg, Vidhee Avashia and Shrutika Parihar. Land Use Change Trends of Indian Cities: A Bird’s Eye View: Vulnerabilities of Unplanned Urban Growth

Book Review: Amit Garg, Vidhee Avashia and Shrutika Parihar. Land Use Change Trends of Indian... Environment and Urbanization AsiA Book Review 11(1) 170–172, 2020 © 2020 National institute of Urban Affairs (NiUA) Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOi: 10.1177/0975425320906299 journals.sagepub.com/home/eua Amit Garg, Vidhee Avashia and Shrutika Parihar. Land Use Change Trends of Indian Cities: A Bird’s Eye View: Vulnerabilities of Unplanned Urban Growth (New Delhi: SAGE Publications), 2018 ISBN: 978-93-528-0659-1 (PB). This book with data of land use/land cover of 47 Indian cities spanning over 1991–2007 period and covering different climatic zones and size classes of urban areas is timely. It gives city level land use classification of agriculture, built-up, urban green spaces, urban open spaces, forest, water bodies and rivers. The ‘land use’ phrase used is essentially land cover data as it does not get into the detail break-up of built-up spaces as the city master plans do. This is primarily because of the data source used, which is Landsat images (TM) of 30 meter resolution for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2017. Some technical bit, the authors justify the use of Landsat images than the other satellite images because the former exhibit the same baseline parameters such as scale and resolution of the images across all the four years—as these provide continuous http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Urbanization Asia SAGE

Book Review: Amit Garg, Vidhee Avashia and Shrutika Parihar. Land Use Change Trends of Indian Cities: A Bird’s Eye View: Vulnerabilities of Unplanned Urban Growth

Mahadevia, Darshini
Environment and Urbanization Asia , Volume 11 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2020
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Environment and Urbanization AsiA Book Review 11(1) 170–172, 2020 © 2020 National institute of Urban Affairs (NiUA) Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOi: 10.1177/0975425320906299 journals.sagepub.com/home/eua Amit Garg, Vidhee Avashia and Shrutika Parihar. Land Use Change Trends of Indian Cities: A Bird’s Eye View: Vulnerabilities of Unplanned Urban Growth (New Delhi: SAGE Publications), 2018 ISBN: 978-93-528-0659-1 (PB). This book with data of land use/land cover of 47 Indian cities spanning over 1991–2007 period and covering different climatic zones and size classes of urban areas is timely. It gives city level land use classification of agriculture, built-up, urban green spaces, urban open spaces, forest, water bodies and rivers. The ‘land use’ phrase used is essentially land cover data as it does not get into the detail break-up of built-up spaces as the city master plans do. This is primarily because of the data source used, which is Landsat images (TM) of 30 meter resolution for the years 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2017. Some technical bit, the authors justify the use of Landsat images than the other satellite images because the former exhibit the same baseline parameters such as scale and resolution of the images across all the four years—as these provide continuous

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