Evaluation of Mixed-use Development in Residential zone: A case of Surat.

Abstract

Mixed-use development is characterized as that development has mixing different residential, commercial, institutional, cultural, civic & industrial uses. Indian cities accepted the Mixed-use development in their land use planning and cities like delhi and Jaipur regularize the Mixed-use in their zoning. Surat DCR also regularizes the Mixed-use according to zoning and Road width wise. SUDA classified the permissible and non-permissible non-residential activities according to road width wise. According to Mixed-use theories and concepts, it is acknowledge to be good practice and has positive effects. But the way Mixed-use gets developed under the prevailing regulation brings some negative effects which need to be study. To achieve the stated objectives, I collect the different type of primary data and surveys like; residential perception for classification of non-residential activities, building unit wise non-residential activities counting for site level analysis, non-residential activity wise survey for identify usage pattern of users, non-residential activity wise survey for identify effect of activity. After the data collection, I analyzed the survey and comparison between them and give recommendations for regularize the Mixed-use at site level, area level, listed out the non-permissible activities for residential area. In conclusion section this thesis can be helpful for further classify the permissible & non-permissible non-residential activities usage pattern of users and road width wise, which will be bring ‘Better Mixed-use’ for residential area.