Singh, AR. Ravi Inder creator Chahal, Karamjit Singh text xu| 2017 continuing ng p.81-90. The rural and urban areas overlap on one another in jurisdictional terms to form the evolution of peri-urban areas. The peri-urban areas are the biggest drivers of economy and govern the real estate scenario by giving direction to future growth of the city. The in-depth understanding of the concept can be attained by dissecting the term peri-urban from sociological, demographic and economic perspective. The delineation of local planning area in the process of formation of Master Plan helps in an organized development scenario by giving legal backing to the type of permissible developments on the outskirts of Municipal boundaries. The detailed discussion of characteristic features of peri-urban areas help in forming a fair idea for formualting the preventive and curative measures foe evolving a harmonious outgrowth of city cores. - Reproduced. Land use, Urban Urban area Land use Nagarlok 180718