EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES UPON A CITY MORPHOLOGY

Abstract

This research investigates the effects of population growth and economic activities upon a city morphology, and it takes Khartoum metropolitan city as a case study. This research is important because it discuss the challenges that face city development in real time. The main objectives of this research are to find out the effects of such factors upon a city morphology at both micro and macro scales of development; and provide strategy for what improves cities’ efficiency to convoy the concept of the ideal real time city. This strategy impacts on limited economy cities, focuses on the urban development constraints on them. The methodology adopted in this research- depending on previous theoretical studies- is producing a theoretical model to study, measure, deduct and compare between cities morphological efficiency. The model is able to be applied on different cities, concerning their unique characteristics and the factors which support or constraint development strategy implication on each one of them. The results of this research are identification the effects of population growth and economic activities upon the city morphology, and proposing development strategy for that with a fixable frame which can be adopted in different cities and which helps in enhancing or keeping city efficiency to convoy real time circumstances or establishing development in cities from the stage of under development. The research tests its proposed model in the case of Khartoum city and suggests special recommendations for its morphological development as in accordance to the pre-identified research problem.