Exponential growth of informalities in the urban fabric of developing countries has become an important topic of discussion in recent times. In response to rapid urbanization, migration is acting as a catalyst for mutation ...

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 ...

Watercourses, rivers streams and water channels represent multiple values of urban structure. Location of settlements is related to water issues since early times. Water has influenced development of villages, rural areas, ...

The history of the cantonments in India has revealed that the cantonments were originally located outside cities and away from the civilians. But as the cities started to expand, they began to grow around the existing ...

Cultural claims in a city are the basis of creative capital; globalization has raised the concern of retaining creative industries .Indigenous works of art hardly seem to get the full price of their investment. The ...

Large inserts in a city's fabric act as catalyst in influencing the development adjacent, close and around it. These inserts may be sponsored by the state or by private developers and very often are located in the most ...

Rapid urbanization and uncontrolled growth, which marks the evolution of cities on a global scale, has led to changing dynamics in the ecological and socio-spatial transformation of the peri-urban areas. Increasing ...

Are there spaces for children in the city? The fact that we can raise this question at all is in itself an indication that a problem exists. The city, as a complex and large-scale environment, has both advantages and ...

All around the globe, cities are becoming truly multi-ethnic and multicultural. A city that adjusts to new massive migration inflow of cultural fabric are in the course of rapid transformation. These type of proposed foreign ...

Effect of urbanisation on nature-The existing development impair the quality of our life by introducing us to stress and depression. But, nature and greenspaces around us form an important community resource in times of ...