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What is a Slum ? Slums are a physical and spatial sign of urban poverty. Individuals living in slums have next to zero access to administrations, for example, water, sanitation, and solid waste gathering. The majority of the lodging structures in slums are sub-standard and don’t conform to neighborhood building regulations. Frequently, slum occupants need …
A good planned city/town reacquires an efficient transport system. This can only be achieved if the town planner is well acquainted with different hierarchy of roads. Thus a town planner and transport planner must have a good understanding of hierarchy of roads in urban and rural areas. A productive urban way system, accompanies an order. …
Hierarchy and types of Plans There are number of plans available to direct the development in an urban or rural areas. The levels at which they operate is different & similarly the nature and details provided in each type is different. Hierarchy and Types of Plans are explained below Master plan : A coordinated act of …
What is a Base Map ? A base map is a map which shows the existing physical pattern of the land upon which survey info analysis or planning proposal can be superimposed. The information required for base map varies from map to map because it largely depends upon its scale, the area covered and the …
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Delineation Of Functional Regions iis done by using any of the 2 most widely used methods: These are: Flow Analysis Gravitational Analysis Both the methods are explained below: Flow Analysis Method – Functional Region Delineation Flow analysis builds up functional regions on the basis of the direction and intensity of flows between the dominant centre and …
Monopolistic Competition is a form of imperfect competition in which one selling/buying firm dominates the market. This firm regulates the prices in the market as no other firm is large enough to make significant changes to price. Characteristics: Large number of firms in the industry May have some element of control over price due to …
Perfect competition in economics refers to condition in market in an ideal situation. In this situation price for all goods and services are decided by market on basis of competition and no external intervention takes place. Characteristics of perfect competition are given below: Perfect Competition It is one extreme of the market structure spectrum Characteristics: …
