Public participation is a crucial process that involves citizens in decision-making processes aimed at improving or developing their built environment. However, this process faces several challenges, particularly in ...

Over the years increased pressure of Urbanization and population growth in cities have adversely affected the river-cities relationships. Cities have been mainly held responsible for the deteriorated states of rivers & ...

The need for inclusion of street vendors in the urban planning process has been acknowledged through the Street Vendor’s Act of 2014, which directs responsibilities to urban local bodies to prepare street vending plans at ...

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 ...

Disaster such as earthquakes, fire, landslide, flashflood have caused immense loss of lives, and property. It has hindered and slowed down the process of infrastructure development in Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh. ...

The topography of Indian IT cities has mostly consisted of suburban corridors of spatially separated corporate campuses for the last 50 years, with little attention to the quality of life or combining work, housing, and ...

The world's leading planning technique for maximizing transit-land use synergy is called Transit-oriented development (TOD). By minimizing sprawl, lowering automobile use, enhancing urban design, and providing facilities ...

Every gender contributes considerably to the spatio-economic development process of the city with their waged or free labour. Limited or non-availability of basic urban services and facilities lead to gender-based drawbacks ...

A city's public transportation system is one of its most important urban infrastructure systems. It is the key component of sustainable transport system. Good public transport enhances connectivity and mobility. It plays ...

One-third of the population in India can be catalogued as an urbanite. Today, a significant share of people moves to the cities contributing to urbanization and this fact cannot be disputed. The Government of India has ...