Srinagar, Nov. 4 -- Urbanisation in Jammu and Kashmir is a study in contrasts. Cities and towns across the Union Territory are spreading rapidly, their built form changing at unprecedented pace.These are undergoing rapid physical transformation and spatial spread, yet the nature and quality of this metamorphosis is complex considerably .The liveability, the coherence, the basic fairness of everyday urban life is lagging far behind the physical expansion. We usually talk about the gap between the city envisaged on Master Plan maps and the city people actually walk through, work in and call home. In Jammu and Kashmir the picture is more complicated. There is a third reality that receives far less attention: the many settlements and expandin...