Abstract:
Recently develoned land mana~ement and land plannin~
techniques such as the 'Land Poolin~ Technique' have
been adouted and successfully nractised in a few
develo9in~ countries such as Korea and Taiwan. Nevertheless
it is still not nractised widely in the South
Asian Region. It is the nrime objective of this study
to examine the feasibility of annlying this land
development technique, to the urban situation in Sri
Lanka. For this nurnose a study of the under-develoned
areas in the city of Colombo was undertaken.
This study consists of 7 Chanters. Chanter one deals
with the nroblem of land, such as undesirable land
utilization high land values created by unmanav,eable
growth of urban centres. It also examines the nresent
land nolicies and their adequacy to deal with uroblems
that arise in urban areas.
The Second Chan.ter deals with the -n- rosn..ects of urban
growth in the Colombo Urban area and the demand for
urban land. It deals with the natural topo~ranhic
situation, the rate of nODulation ~rowth and concentration
of economic activities. It sgecifically deals with
the magnitudes in terms of land values consequent to the
new economic nolicies introduced after 1977. It further
discusses the develonment trends in terms of data
regarding develonment activities in the city and its
immediate suburbs since 1977.
The Third Chanter discuss some land nlanning techniques,
eX9lain in detail the Land Pooling Technique. This
entails a comparative study of the countries which are
practising the land Dooling technique, and why they have
adopted this narticular technique for urban develoument.
