Dweeta Dawda

1145-A

Due to increasing population, the cities have started growing outwards and a sprawl towards the villages around has started as a result of an uncontrolled urban development. This phenomenon of an uncontrolled urban expansion is usually seen in medium sized developing cities. The sprawl towards the villages affects them negatively. An urban periphery is formed around the settlement as the city grows. The presence of the periphery makes a clear division between the old and new development on the basis of infrastructural and non infrastructural assets which further shows the economic differences present. An economic urban divide is formed here. A divide like this one marks the settlements as the isolated ones. These villages were formed around 700 years ago and have been here since then- growing by themselves and building a character and lifestyle of their own. Negligence of these communities as a part of the present context is a very insensitive approach to development in developing cities and only gives rise to a scattered and haphazard development. There is a need to rethink the development strategies to retain the identity of these communities and break the isolation. An economic urban harmony can be achieved when both the isolated settlements and the rest of the city are aware of the assets they posses and are ready to share it. A man only gets attracted to a source that fulfils the wants and needs he has and hence a need based intervention is the only way two economic groups can come together. With sharing now will come caring later and maybe sometime in the future will an economic harmony exist.