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Impact of Jammu City on Its Peri–Urban Zone
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123Assistant Professor, Geography GGM Science College Jammu, Cluster University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. 4Lecturer, MAM College Jammu, Cluster University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Volume 5, Issue 3 (2025)
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- May-June 2025
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- 150-156
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- Case Study
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Abstract
View PDFDue to the fast galloping population, increasing traffic the space in the city area is shrinking fast and the urban area is modifying its characteristics with high migration rate. The adjoining villages are gradually changing their rural character into urban in all the cities of India and not within limit of well-defined boundary. Consequently this process creates different transitional zones between city and countryside. These transitional zones generally known as peri-urban areas varying in width and nature and have rapid change with increasing population pressure. In the present paper the author try to reveal the various impact of city on its surrounding peri-urban area leading to changes in landuse , social and economic structure of the rural folk living in the peripheral area of the city.
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