ABSTRACT
Urbanization is one of the major socio-economic development processes in the developing countries. Towns and cities have been the focus of most developmental activities. These towns and cities continue to play a major role in industrial and economic development. India has an urban infrastructure of gigantic magnitude. The rapid growth of metropolises has also engendered horizontal spread of urban boundaries. Cities have expanded into adjacent rural areas in a haphazard and unplanned manner. Agricultural lands of peripheral villages are converted to industrial and residential uses. The study of urban landscape provides an intricate and complex interrelationship between the urban landscape's physical and cultural dimensions and the people who live in these environments. The most immediate and visible impact of urbanization in India is the change in land use and economic conditions of the rural regions surrounding the city landscape (Desai and Sen Gupta, 1987; Ramachandran, 1991; Mujtaba, 1994; Chandhoke, 1994). Delhi, the capital of India, is not bereft of these dynamics of rural land use.
