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Outgrowth (OG), the spatio-temporal growth of an urban unit, is a very common process of urbanization in a country like India where the population is nearly 1.37 billion, 18% of the world’s population. The present study attempts to quantify the rapid urban sprawl of Burdwan, a statutory town of India by monitoring land use and land cover dynamics within Bardhaman Planning Area (BPA) from three temporal satellite images (2008, 2012, and 2016) and by calculating overall entropy value in Shannon's method for mapping and analyzing urban landscape. Apart from the quantification of fast OG of Burdwan (2008–16), this study also strives to focus on the strategies which have been adopted for sustainable solutions of urban problems like traffic congestion by shifting bus terminal, the monsoonal stormwater stagnation by extracting sediment from the river bed, and also the riverbank erosion by modifying the banks through boulder pitching of the Banka, a rivulet that passes through Burdwan Municipality, as well as BPA. |
