• Neetha SN
• Dr. Mamatha P Raj

Urban morphological study describes the spatial aspect of a city in terms of Built form, connectivity, land uses, and green areas. Morphological characteristics has a great impact on the Urban Form. Every city has its own spatial and temporal layers which unfolds the story of time and space it belongs to. This paper tries to analyze the morphological characteristics and its impact on the Green Infrastructure elements of Bangalore city. Bangalore is one of the important cities of India and is one of the world's top 10 fastest growing cities. It has a very strong historical background. It is the capital city of Karnataka and today well known as IT City or Silicon Valley due to its recent development in IT Sector. In the process of urbanization, Urban form, culture, and the character of the cities go through a lot of change. Bangalore is one such city which has undergone many changes over the time. Bangalore was founded by Kempe Gowda, who built a mud fort at the center of the city in 1537. The founder had divided the town into Pete (Market) and Kote (Fort). He had also built many Lakes and Gardens keeping the topography of Bangalore in mind. Bangalore was identified based on 4 important elements when Kempe Gowda first built Bangalore and they are Pete (Market), Kote (Fort), Kere (lakes) and Thota (Gardens). Bangalore gained its popularity as Garden City because of these elements. Today Bangalore’s Urban Form has many more layers of development added to it, which can be observed through Morphological study. In this paper, we examine two aspects, one will be the study of different zones of Bangalore city and second is the Green Infrastructure Elements present in these zones. Aim of this research paper is to methodologically study the characteristics of different zones of Bangalore city in terms of Land use, demographics, Urban form, Green Infrastructure Elements etc and investigate associated Issues and challenges. The methodology followed here is to identify sample Planning Districts in each zones of Bangalore city and study the Land use, demographics, Urban form, Green Infrastructure Elements. A comparative study of these planning districts can reveal the potential and challenges which can lead to further research, recommendations, and design suggestions.

STUDY OF URBAN MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS – CASE OF BANGALORE CITY

"STUDY OF URBAN MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS – CASE OF BANGALORE CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.b377-b385, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112147.pdf

"STUDY OF URBAN MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS – CASE OF BANGALORE CITY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppb377-b385, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112147.pdf