ABSTRACT
All studies of urban land price changes in Third World cities must face up to a complex range of methodological problems, of which two main ones stand out. First, in many Third World countries, land price data are scarcely available. Secondly, a wide range of data sources and methods of analysis have been employed by researchers working in Third World countries. The major thrust of D. Dowall’s study is to investigate land price gradients from the city centre to the periphery. Dowall’s analysis revolves around the standard neo-classical view that land prices decrease as one moves away from the centre of a city to the periphery. The chapter focuses on primary data sources collected from socio-economically varying peripheral urban settlements in Lucknow City. It identifies two main data collection avenues for the analysis of land price changes in Lucknow. These are: data collection through the household approach and data collection through a cross-sectional approach.
