Discuss some more reasons which are responsible for changes of land use pattern. Has your place undergone any change in the land use pattern in recent years?

Find out your parents and elderly people. You can conduct an interview by asking the following questions.

Place	When your grand parent’s were in their 30s	When your parents were in their 30’s	Why do you think this is happening?	Are common areas and open spaces disappearing?
Rural Number of cattle and poultry owned
Number of trees and ponds in the village
Main occupation of the head of the family
Urban Number of cars owned
Number of rooms in the house
Number of metalled roads
Number of flyovers in the city
Number of parks and playgrounds

Based on the table you have just

completed, draw a picture of land use patterns that you foresee in your neighbourhood after 20 years. Why do you think that land use patterns change over the years?

Place

When your grand parent’s were in their 30s

When your parents were in their 30’s

Why do you think this is happening?

Are common areas and open spaces disappearing?

Rural

Number of cattle and poultry owned

Many people owned cattles and poultry as it was an important source of livelihood

People started moving to cities and cattle rearing and poultry farming was not an attractive means of livelihood.

This is happening because people are moving to urban areas for better employment opportunities.

Yes. Urban areas do not have enough open spaces because of which cattle rearing is difficult.

Number of trees and ponds in the village

Villages had lot of trees and at least 2 freshwater ponds.

Trees were cut to make more houses because of population increase. Pond water was polluted.

Population increase and industrialization are main causes

Villages do not have as much big open fields as they had earlier.

Main occupation of the head of the family

Main occupation was agricultural farming or dairy farming.

As families started moving to urban areas, people began working in service sector or in industries.

Agriculture was no longer a profitable source of livelihood.

With the coming up of more concrete structures, agricultural land is depleting.

Urban

Number of cars owned

Very few people owned cars

The number of car owners began increasing

There was a rise in income and standard of living because of economic growth.

Huge buildings came up at the places where open grounds or common areas existed

Number of rooms in the house

The number of rooms were less as people shared spaces

The number of rooms began increasing as every member wanted their personal space in the house

With the change in civilization, individualism increased and people became more aloof from their near one.

In order to make more rooms, open spaces in the house were used.

Number of metalled roads

Metalled roads were rare. ‘Kaccha’ roads were more common

In order to facilitate economic activities, metalled roads were constructed

This is happening because good quality roads have become important to sustain industries.

Number of flyovers in the city

There were one or two flyovers in the city because traffic was less

Flyovers started increasing because there was a rise in traffic congestion.

More and more people are owning vehicles

Flyovers are being made on open spaces

Number of parks and playgrounds

There were many parks and playgrounds

Parks and playgrounds were less in number as building came up in those areas

The spaces occupied by parks were used to build house, industries etc to fulfill needs of increasing population

The open spaces were used to build houses.