Presented To

Dr. Wajid Nasim

Presented By
Group 5

Department of Environmental Sciences

COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus

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Presented To
Dr. Wajid Nasim
Presented By
Group 5

Department of Environmental Sciences

COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus

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Introduction
• Urbanization in Punjab has experienced rapid development during the
past decades.
• Rapid urbanization brought tremendous changes on urban landscape,
scholars also observe the increase of urban pollution, traffic
congestion, shrinking public services and aging infrastructure in cities.
• A livable city, from the urban planning and land use perspective, is a
city that possesses an adequate set of good inhabitable conditions
(both natural and cultural) and reasonable land use patterns that meet
the needs of the residents in material and spiritual life and support both
the city’s and its residents’ long term development needs.
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Cont…
• Livability (Quality of life) encompasses broad human needs ranging
from food and basic security to beauty, cultural expression, and a
sense of belonging to a community or a place.
• Quality of life might refer to a citizen’s satisfaction with residential
environments, traffic, crime rate, employment opportunities, or the
amount of open space.
• Land use involves the management and modification of natural
environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements
and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed
woods.
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Cont…
• Remote sensing is the art and science of making measurements of the
earth using sensors on airplanes or satellites. These sensors collect data
in the form of images and provide specialized capabilities for
manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing those images.
• A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer-based tool for
mapping and analyzing feature events on earth. GIS technology
integrates common database operations, such as query and statistical
analysis, with maps.

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Urban livability
• Livability is considered as ‘quality of life’ of the inhabitants within an
area, i.e. city or region.
• Livability is an important and crucial aspect of urbanity which depicts
quality of life.
• It is still characterized by more than expressing a place and its living
conditions; it imitates the perception of the people about a place and
whether it is suitable for living or not.
• Livability is a vital part of urban planning as a discipline, and is now
discussed widely in the interrelated fields like sustainable
development, quality of life and quality of place
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Approaches for Measuring Livability

• Economist Intelligence Unit’s livability Ranking (EIU).

• Mercer Quality of Living Survey.

• Monocle’s magazine” Most Liveable Cities Index”.

• OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)

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Urban Livability Indices
Five components of residential livability satisfaction with multiple
variables.
(1) Cultural attributes.
(2) Environmental attributes.
(3) Social attributes.
(4) Infrastructural attributes.
(5) Economic attributes.

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Sustainable Urban Livability

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Urban Livability in Punjab
• The trends of Livability in Pakistan vary from urban to urban, urban to
rural, and province to province.
• Uncontrolled urban growth has brought forth issues of unequal
socioeconomic and infrastructural development.
• Small towns of have raised as megacities, and this situation has
instigated pressures on provision of amenities, and as a result has
aggravated current living situations.
• As the cities grow, population increases and more housing schemes are
needed to accommodate the inhabitants which lower suitability and
urban lavibilty of cities.
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Challenges for urban livability in Punjab

• Poor housing quality and affordability

• Water and Sanitation

• Transportation

• Health

• Land Management

• Education
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Methodology
• Study Area.
• Data Collection.
• LULC Classes.
• Image classification.
• Image Processing.
• Mapping.

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Study Area

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Data Collection
• The Landsat data was downloaded freely from official Earth Explorer
USGS acquired by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) website (earthexplorer.usgs.gov).
• Data comprised of multi-spectral data obtained by Landsat 8 OLI
(Operational Land Imager) satellite 2013 and 2019.
• The following path/row 150/039, 149/039 was used because research
area fall in them.

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Image Processing
Image Layer Supervised
Mosaicing
downloading Stacking Classification

NDVI Sub-Setting

LULC
Mapping
Mapping

Accuracy
Survey
Assessment
Discussion
• As an ultimate goal of urban development, urban livability was studied
by taking province Punjab, Pakistan as research area in this paper.
• The evaluation index system of livability was established by taking
Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing as technical
means to integrate and process the basic databases from different
sources, forms and scales synthetically.
• It can be used as an exposure measure in statistical modelling, thus
providing a potentially powerful tool for assessing the upstream
determinants of the delivery of the UN Sustainable Goals, alongside
local urban planning policies.

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Thank You…!

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