PLANNING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YAMUNA RIVER FRONT. CASE STUDY: DELHI

Abstract

While a river flows to eternity, the banks that hold her support a multitude of human activities, and their habitation. From the dawn of civilization, man has selected riversides as the ideal location for his settlements .All over the world river valleys have been cradles of civilization because all the major civilizations �â� � Egypt on the Nile, Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates, Mohenjodaro and Harrappa on the Indus flourished along the river banks