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This unprecedented event of a flash flood in a calm, winter river on a bright sunny day is a strong warning from nature to make appropriate amends. It is common knowledge that winter is the time for glaciers to compact themselves and increase their girth rather than breaching or breaking and becoming the cause of deluge and disaster. If we continue the persistent interference in the sensitive Himalayan terrain for fulfilling a short-sighted concept of development, then we may have nothing left of the great Ganga basin to pass on to the next generation.

An immediate regulation of all activities is urgently needed. A green cover in the adjacent valleys of the glaciers is essential, which will work as a buffer and minimise the impact of climate change…..

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The basic functions of city also called as city Forming activities.They involve the manufacturing, processing, or trading of goods or the providing of services for markets located outside the city’s boundaries. 

Economic functions of a city servicing nature are called nonbasic functions.They are grocery stores, restaurants, beauty salons are the nonbasic economic activities. 

A city is a permanent, self-sustaining concentration of people, services, and government.They can serve as single purpose or stand as a massive hub.

City is the melting pot for a variety of industry, government, religion, philosophy, education, etc.  Most realistically , major cities have only a few core hooks. Cities are Growth Machines.

 In 1950 Gordon Childe attempted to define a city with 10 general metrics. These are:
• Size and density of the population should be above normal.
• Differentiation of the occupation of the population. Not all residents grow their own food, leading to specialists.
• Payment of taxes to a deity or a king.
• Monumental public buildings.
• Those not producing their own food are supported by the king.
• Systems of recording and practical science.
• A system of writing.
• Development of symbolic art.
• Trade and import of raw materials.
• Specialist craftsmen from outside the kin-group.

Basically, to classify functions into Basic and Non Basic one has to see whether its is fetching Money and or Resources or not.

If it is fetching Money/Resources to the city it is Basic Function, otherwise it is a Non Basic Function.

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Bainly Answers

Rise and Fall of Cities

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Umland is the Service Concept.Umland is one type of functional region and boundary or areas of the Umland is dependent on the following criteria:

• The flow of Goods: The city gets raw material, laborers, agriculture products from Umland areas.
• Services flow: People from Umland Areas avail services such as hospitals, schools, Transporation, communication, cinema and buy higher-order goods such as TV, Machines, AC from City.
• People’s movement: From Umland areas, people visit daily to avail of goods and services.

Based on the above criteria, the following methods are used to delimitate the boundary of Umland:

• Flow analysis
• Gravitational analysis

Flow analysis:
Umland region of the boundary is marked by analyzing the flow of goods and services. 
The intensity of goods and services flow to increase when one gets close to the city.
The flow of goods and services get decreases when we go away from the city towards the outer boundary of Umland.
The boundary of Umland is marked where the flow of goods and services is zero.

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Umland:Concept and Overview