Site Suitability Modeling for Urban Development

Unsystematic Urbanization in almost third world economy group countries like India is engulfing our arable land and biological cycles in urban fringe and the reason of migration of villagers to urban is only the better life style in cities. This is an important topic to discuss since uncontrolled growth of urban areas has currently become a critical issue that hits almost third world economy group countries. In this context of achieving sustainability of cities, it is necessary to conduct a study using multi-criterion layers in GIS software and pairwise comparisons of each and every object with respect to relative importance for generation of eigen vector for new urban sites using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method. This book will provide an excellent opportunity to urban planners / decision makers on different issues related to suitability of new site for housing / infrastructural development in urban-rural areas.