Transportation being a fast-paced industry, is a large contributor towards carbon emission and global climate change. Considering more than half of the population residing in cities, mobility plays a crucial role when it ...

The safe collection, treatment, disposal and reuse of domestic waste water and human fecal waste remains a substantial problem. In the absence of proper sanitation, many Indian cities are on the verge of drowning in their ...

When floods ravaged the Kerala state in 2018 and 2019, the severely affected areas in the Ernakulam district included mainly four municipalities namely, Angamali, Perumbavoor, Aluva and North Paravur. The study area, North ...

Urban planning is very strongly associated with land use. However, the existing land use is not the outcome of only planning decisions but also of the morphology of the place. Urban form and function are coherently linked ...

The city has become fragmented with newly built developments which seem like numerous bubbles in the urban fabric, making the built environment more and more exclusive. This has given rise to inequalities and spatial ...

In the present context, exponential growth of population rapid urbanization has led to the misuse of natural resources. This poses many interrelated factors that deal with ecology, land, economy and cultural contexts ...

The rapid pace of unplanned urbanization trends in many cities have resulted in the degradation of the quality of public space networks which are of primary importance to the structure and quality of the urban environment. ...

Food is one of the most basic necessities for human survival. It is a very important yet often overlooked commodity. To consume it is an intrinsic trait evident since the beginning of mankind. One of the very first ...

One fine Tuesday evening I realized, months after walking between the metro station to my house after work, I always take the longer route. The gali (tertiary road) which directly connected the station to my house had a ...

Cities are spatial compositions of diverse activities which emerge as distinct urban fabrics that changes with time and needs of the people. These built fabrics when integrated properly creates a coherent urban landscape. ...