Thankyou so much sir for your detailed reply.I have a small doubt to ask. As ICT develops more it will increase the occurrence of urban sprawl, right? I believe that ICT development can't control urban sprawl and sprawling phenomenon instead in one way or another it will accelerate the urban sprawl.But using ICT enabled tools we can curb the negative impacts of urban sprawl.Please correct me if Iam wrong.
By 2030, Asia and the Pacific shall have at least 22 megacities including Tokyo (37.2 million), Delhi (36.0 million), Shanghai (30.7 million), Mumbai (27. 8 million), Beijing (27.7 million), Dhaka (27.4 million), and Karachi (24.8 million). From Mumbai to Shanghai, such cities are deploying "smart" technology—electronic devices connected to other devices or networks—to address the multisectoral challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. A "smart city" is a place where traditional infrastructure, networks, and services are made more efficient through ICT.
Notwithstanding the mobility challenges the phenomenal increase in cars poses, what do smart cities mean for the three billion people who shall be living in slums by 2050? The concept of a smart city can—and must—mean more than the use of ICT for urban transport and lower emissions of greenhouse gases: among others, it implies smarter, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities, and more efficient ways of lighting and regenerating urban districts; it also encompasses a more interactive and responsive administration, education, healthcare, safer public spaces, and the needs of growing and ageing populations. Digital financial services systems beckon too.
In short, a smart city is not just a city that leverages ICT in a particular sector but that implements ICT for the benefit of its communities, with their participatory action and engagement, to excel in the areas of economy, environment, living, mobility, people, and government. Definitely, ICT cannot do it alone: but it is an indispensable ally of commercialization, funding, intelligent policies, business-process transformation, and business-model innovation. All the while, smaller settlements of 500,000 inhabitants continue to grow; indeed, many of the fastest growing cities in the world are such settlements.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics
Bharath Setturu. Sir..thank you so much for the link...Sir do you have any sample questionnaires related to parametric characterization of urban sprawl?
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