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Synopsis This innovative book brings the method of urban land market in a fast growing Indian city. It examines how the research design and methodology can shape the analysis of the problems and lead researchers to certain frameworks, conclusion and policy prescriptions for fixing the guideline values for government. This book speculates a broad range of background studies on urban land polices in India. Land and housing policies are of fundamental importance to sustainable economic growth and the well-being of the rapidly growing Indian population. Urban land, a scarce economic resource, quickly appreciate in value. Increasing pressure of population owing to industrialization, migration, and housing, lead to intense competition for this scarce resource. This consequently results in an abnormal rise in land prices. The second generation problems like urban poverty, non-behavioural, and socio-economic forces affect the land use pattern and force a value to urban land. In view of public interest, the author indicates that need for policy intervention for regulating land supply and controlling its prices. The book motivates the factors such as the type, location, amount and rate of urban growth can be assembled, monitored and analyzed to gain a better understanding of urban growth processes and growth management policy for equitable access to various income groups. Also the author offers a considerable insight into the state of the art and practice of land market monitoring – an important and emerging subfield of urban growth management. This book will be useful for people all classes. The author finally shows a way for a rural poor migrant to get a piece land in fast growing Indian cities.