www.ijcrt.org © 2018 IJCRT | Volume 6, Issue 1 March 2018 | ISSN: 2320-2882 IJCRT1802725 International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) www.ijcrt.org 285 URBAN SPRAWL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HYDERABAD: A GEOINFORMATIC APPROACH *Dr.Kethori Venkatesh,#M.Vani,@M.Kamraju *#Lecturer, @Research Scholar *#@Department of Geography *Nizam COllege,#TICSA,@CESS Hyderabad,Telangana Abstract With urbanization comes the need to invest in infrastructure and improve the quality of life in our cities. Rapid urbanization has not only outpaced infrastructure development, but has also brought in the downside of proliferating slums, increasing homelessness, growing urban poverty and crime, of relentless march of pollution and ecological damage. Sustainable city planning should aim at achieving social and environmental equity while improving the lives of the people. For that we need to have a sustainable city form as well as provision and proper management of the services. Thus, in order for a city or urban area to be sustainable it needs to produce and manage basic services like water, waste, energy, and transportation in a way that it conforms to the principles of sustainable development. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS). GIS and remote sensing are land related technologies and are therefore very useful in the formulation and implementation of the land related component of the sustainable development strategy. The different stages in the formulation and implementation of a sustainable regional development strategy can be generalized as determination of objectives, resource inventory, analyses of the existing situation, development, selection, implementation, and evaluation of planning options. Keywords: sustainable, regional, development, strategy, implementation INTRODUCTION Urban sprawl is the outgrowth of the urban areas caused by the uncontrolled and uncoordinated urban growth. Sprawl is also considered to be an unplanned outgrowth of urban areas along the periphery of the cities, along highways, and along the road connecting a city. Towns and cities are expanding in certain pockets with a change in the land use along the highways and in the immediate vicinity of the cities due to ad hoc approaches in planning and decision-making. This dispersed development outside of compact urban and rural centers along highways and in rural countryside is also referred as sprawl. Sprawl generally infers to some type of development with impacts such as loss of agricultural land, open space, and ecologically sensitive habitats in and around the urban areas. These regions lack basic amenities due to the unplanned growth and lack of prior