2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA indicates that “world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa”. ...

Keywords: Actor Network Theory, Urban Governance, Parallel Governance, Traditional self-governance, Informal governance, Trust in governance, Contestations The 6th schedule to the Constitution of India was implied to some ...

With rapid urbanization, heavy migration is taking place from rural to urban areas adding more load on it and absence of inclusive housing planning creates limited access to housing and basic infrastructure. Due to lack ...

Livelihood opportunities referred to as tribal populations engage in main activities for sustaining their living condition. Livelihood is means of securing basic necessities of life. Standard of living, Shelter, Clothes, ...

In India, Religious tourism is an essential part of the lives of most of the country's population. It contributes to a sizeable portion of all kinds of tourism in the country. Tourism is an important activity that contributes ...

The Modelling and Simulation of land cover change are fundamental to the evaluation of successive environmental effects. In modelling several factors that are interacting with each other at the local or micro level in a ...

Parking is an essential component of the transportation system. Parking facilities are a major cost to society. Parking problems can be often defined either in terms of inadequate supply or in terms of management (available ...

As per 2011 census, the country has had a population 1,210.98 million out of which 3777.10 (31.16%) live in urban areas. The country is also experiencing a trend of growing urbanization which has led to a major problem of ...

In India, urbanization rate is high and as a result, it is estimated from the growth rate that by 2050, there will be 814 million people living in urban regions. Urban local bodies face challenges in meeting the demands ...

Spatial expansion and land use transformation to urbanized and/or urban sprawl is one of the major effects of urbanization which emerge as the challenges for providing urban infrastructure and services. Thus many cities ...