Enforced exclusions and relocation of the inmost shantytowns have turn out to be a regular and unavoidable function of the advancement of the cities in the overall South. Post liberalization, good governance strategy has ...

Cities do not have a birth, they simply grow. - Ravi Kalia First signs of systematic city planning appeared with the orthogonal grid of Indus cities in 2400BC, followed by which there are many planned cities that show ...

From last 200 millenniums, humans are succeeding to prove their dominance over nature and other species by adapting themselves with the changing environment. Climate change is shaping our world and mostly affects our ...

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 ...

This thesis is an attempt in understanding the interrelationship between social and spatial systems, between communities and the geographical landscape of hilly regions of northern India in order to enhance social ...

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, ...

Cities have had a very strong relationship with bodies of water. Many were built on the banks of rivers, some were at the seaside, and others were adjacent to lakes and of course in many cases cities created their own lakes ...

Cities are composed of many types of spaces, including those which exists between the built environment, wedges of spaces defined by the infrastructure of transportation, communication, industry and development. The urban ...

Every city is affected by trends of transformations or the process of change. The term decline in the context of urban development is used to describe undesirable changes. Local policies and strategies designed to deal ...