Urbanization has significantly influenced the land use and impervious surface growth, thereby altering the hydrology of urban sub-basins or watersheds within urban area. Sub-basins, are highly sensitive to localized land use changes due to their scale and proximity to surface water systems and its influence to change of infiltration and ground water recharge. Land use transformations, particularly those involving conversion of vegetative or permeable land to built-up areas, directly impact infiltration rates, surface runoff, and pollutant transport within these sub-basin. This review paper aims to provide few concepts and approaches for looking to the framework for responsive sub-basin planning by combining insights from 160 scholarly papers across a wide range of geographies, techniques, and temporal scales. The study categorizes present research into policy frameworks, vulnerability assessment, LID (Low Impact Development), hydrological modeling, land use changes, and impervious surface impacts. Apart from identifying methodological gaps and emerging area of discussions in change of urban land use and its effect on urban river, this paper identifying few major parameters which are required to be analyzed for understanding the relationship of urban river and changes of urban land use in a sub basin.