A SWOC Analysis and Smart Land Use Modelling for Chandipur-Erashal Census Town Cum Growth Center Due to Its Sustainable Journey Stimulating Regional Development

Abstract

The term urbanization has been described as a process that implies any urban area through its spatial, temporal, and sectoral changes in the form of demographic, social, economic, technological, and environmental aspects of life in a given society. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between urbanization and development through the process of landscape transformation of Chandipur-Erashal Census Town of Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal. This study aims to build an understanding of the landscape transformation issues and challenges with the strength, opportunity, and weakness of this turban or peri-urban or growth center area. Since the journey of the emerging census town at its childhood phase influences the regional development as the growth center, the smarter land use and resource management of this growth center may consider for its full flourishment adjusting the human and environmental costs over time. Extensive literature survey, purposive interviewing, crisscross landscape survey, perception survey, sampling data compilation and analysis, and Spatio-temporal and sectoral mapping by proper GIS and statistical software, etc. the ways to SWOC analysis of the study area and to make the blueprint for its sustainable journey from its recent childhood maintaining the anti-urban sprawling policy and urban ecological footprint in near or far future.