URBAN SHAPE OF AHMEDABAD CITY TRIGGERED BY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY, CASE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL ESTATES OF GIDC

Industrial activity of industrial estates generates occupation of land on its surrounding area. The areas become more and more developed by residential and commercial uses. Development of the city for its increased population encouraged changes of agriculture area located in between central city and the three industrial estates. Since industrial activities of industrial estates become urban generators to change the use of land, from agriculture to developed land, hence it also affected to the physical morphology of the urban areas. The paper tries to analyze the growth of the city affected by the three urban generators located in eastern part of the city that are the industrial estates under GIDC management.