India is a country with diverse cultural and ethnic groups. Contemporary development is forcing these indigenous communities away from their urban habitat. As in case of Mumbai, the aboriginals of the city such as Kolis ...

Water systems are the life lines of human settlements serving various livelihoods, functional and recreational needs of people. There was a time when cities had strong associational value with rivers and lakes or the water ...

Transit access is essential for the prosperity and economic health of a country. In metropolitan cities like Mumbai, which are also known as the engines of economic growth , public transport provides an essential service ...

In an increasingly urbanised world, it will be crucial to ensure that public services in urban areas deliver for poor people as well as the wider population. Funding and technical capacity for service provision are both ...

Landscape Integrity the authenticity of historic identity, that reveal a presence by the survival of physical characteristic that existed during the historic and prehistoric period. The 7 qualities of integrity are: a. ...

Since the last quarter of 20th century, Globalization emerged as an important phenomenon across the world because of its exponential growth and taking over many countries. It calls for trade of products and services from ...

Each city has a unique collective memory which gets reconstructed over a given period of time. Collective memory helps in providing a cultural identity to the city. As the city grows the collective memory also keeps on ...

In the modern era slums are not a new word to hear as it exists along with urbanisation. "Slums" are regularly used to portray informal settlements inside cities that have an inadequate housing with no proper sanitation, ...

As they are the sensitive users of the society, relation between the children with its environment in relation to play is an important aspect. Importance of the play for the child’s life is the medium of behavior to develop ...

When someone asks to recall a city you’ve ever paid a visit to, the one of the few things that flashes in front of our eyes are the city’s streets and the built fabric adjoining the vast network of these streets? It is no ...