*Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
**Department of Geography and Environment Management, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore
Online published on 16 January, 2014.
The present treatise is a humble attempt to analyze the morphological components of Greater Gwalior City, M.P. It seeks to explain this urban landscape of historical importance as a post-modern space where built heritage and innovation design of space have become the competitive facets of the city in terms of metamorphosis of urban structure under the influence of processes like urban redevelopment, gentrification, sprawling and intra-urban competition in economic and social context. In arriving at the above objective, intensive survey has been conducted taking homogeneous building block as the basic unit of study. Building blocks separated by arterial roads were identified from the high resolution satellite images downloaded from open source. Information for each of such building blocks was collected and recorded using pre-designed field manual and questionnaires. Thus a model of urban morphology has been formulated.
Gentrification, Intra-Urban Competition, Morphological Components, Sprawl, Urban Landscape, Urban Redevelopment
