The world we live in is becoming increasingly sensitive to environmental change and damage. As such, it is important that we protect the areas that are still pristine and untouched. Eco-sensitive areas are those that are ...

The global concerns of climate change and upsurging energy demand coupled with rapid urbanization drive the need for energy optimization and designing efficient building footprints which otherwise are silent power uzzlers. ...

India prides itself with the world’s youngest population comprising 18% of the 1.3 billion world population aged between 15 to 24 years of age. The Indian Government targeted to enrol 30% of the total population aged between ...

Religion is often defined as people' relationship with what they consider to be sacred, usually in supernatural terms. Nine of the world's most popular faiths are followed by billions of people across the world. Among them ...

The urbanisation process is increasingly placing strain on cities and their infrastructure, resulting in the rapid growth of slums. These habitats are inappropriate and unhealthy because they lack better water sanitation, ...

The performance of ports plays an important role in terms of economic and regional balanced development. It serves as an important transportation hub for goods movements. Huge parcel of land is allocated to port authorities ...

Air quality has become a significant issue of concern in recent years, especially in developing countries such as India. Some of our tier-I cities, like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Vijayawada, Vizag, Hyderabad, and Bangalore, ...

People in communities all around the world use public transit to go about and access jobs, community resources, medical care, and recreational possibilities. It benefits both strata of the people who choose to ride through ...

When floods ravaged the Kerala state in 2018 and 2019, the severely affected areas in the Ernakulam district included mainly four municipalities namely, Angamali, Perumbavoor, Aluva and North Paravur. The study area, North ...

Urban planning is very strongly associated with land use. However, the existing land use is not the outcome of only planning decisions but also of the morphology of the place. Urban form and function are coherently linked ...