Abstract:
The environmental degradation and ecological deterioration in urban areas is a world wide phenomenon, but it is more pronounced in developing countries because of mismanagement of science and technology, population explosion, widening gap between rich and poor and chronic poverty is taking place at macro level and city level due to population growth and migration & unplanned development.
In urban areas there is more population density, shortage of houses, congestion, more automobiles, shortage of parks, playground and open space. Problem of stray cattle on urban roads and areas, air, water, and noise pollution, traffic hazards, industries also creates slumps and squatter settlements. Besides this, there are more contaminants dusts, more cloudiness,more fog in winter, high temperature, less relative humidity, less radiation & less wind speed.
"The urban ecosystem is in a crisis which will increase in geometrical progression as urbanisation accelerates and as the
availability of financial resources for urban development declines". This was the warning contained in the book 'planning the Indian city' by Mahesh N.Buch. The warning still holds good considering the pace and the manner of urban growth and the deterioration of its management.
