The education sector in India is one of the booming economies, attracting large number of national and international students. With many of our cities emerging as educational centers in the recent years, studentification ...

As boundaries between urban and rural begin to blur, cities witness more ethnicity mix, diversity and difference than ever leading to an urban divide. This thesis explores urban divide centered around pluralism, identity ...

The neighborhood unit is assumed to be the smallest unit at which social interaction and community goals can be planned and achieved by the people themselves. Beyond a personal space it is seen as an organized extension ...

For thousands of years, sacred space has shaped and provided meaning to our cities and urban communities. Despite the development of cities in all other fields, sacred places are still the vital part of our urban communities. ...

Food has been central to human settlements also giving a rich vibrancy and putting food-centered conviviality at the heart. Food has also been responsible for shaping our urban spaces and our perception of places within ...

The inception of a thesis starts with contemporary issues of city and its ecology, Human survival depends upon adapting themselves and their settlements in life sustaining ways with connection to natural forms; designed ...

A city or urban region is continuously evolving with complex functions and activities to support daily life of citizens and mainly features a promising civilization which stems from its own natural form, sense of place, ...

Due to globalisation and modernisation, cities are undergoing rapid transformation. The process of urbanisation and an increase in population in cities push the city centres into congestion and loss of identity by neglecting ...

Growing enclaved urban developments are spatial manifestation of various divides and fear manifesting in society today. These highly introverted and often unsustainable developments are altering our urban experience. ...

Historic urban spaces are the outcomes of social, cultural, economical, technological and political conditions of a period or over a period which have created them. With time, due to the changes in the conditions effective ...