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| Article Name : | | | AN ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF KALYANI-A PLANNED CITY OF NADIA DISTRICT, WEST BENGAL | | Author Name : | | | Aznarul Islam,Syfujjaman Tarafder | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1240 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Traditional urban centres had generally grown in an unplanned and spontaneous manner all over the world, triggering numerous problems in socio-economic and environmental dimensions. These problems are of common parlance world over but more acute in the third world countries like India. To overcome these problems, restructuring of old cities as well as establishment of new planned cities were noticed in India. Thus the urban geographers started to put their interest on it and analyze the negative and positive aspects of both planned and unplanned cities. The present paper takes an attempt to analyze the basic morphological characteristics of Kalyani, a modern planned new industrial township, built in 1960s in Nadia district. | | Keywords : | | |
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