Sarla, Thakur Gargi Sanjay(I I T ROORKEE, 2018-06)
India is home to a wide variety of climatic regions and different types of materials, techniques, strategies for the architectural design are needed in each different climatic region. The industrializations and mass ...
A spatial experience holistically intertwines with the users, when the environment responds to their needs with such harmony, that users thrive not only physically, but also mentally and spiritually. Such an environment ...
With urbanisation spreading across the globe, it has become imperative upon the governments to regulate it and ensure that it takes place in a sustainable manner. Most of this urbanisation will take place in countries which ...
Bangladesh may be a developing country. Dhaka, the capital town of East Pakistan, is that the center of all development activities. Credit goes to unplanned rise of development activities ends up in important issues for ...
are a source of such key resources as minerals, forest products and agricultural products and of
recreation. As a major ecosystem representing the complex and interrelated ecology of our
planet, mountain environments are ...
Urban transportation is facing a lots of challenge in a country like India, where nothing has went well for the first half of last century. Things have not gone better too since then. But now is the time to decide our ...
In Tamil Nadu, Chennai and various other parts were impacted by the devastating floods during November and December in year in year 2015, claimed about 400 lives and caused economic damages enormously. The event mentioned ...
Many Indian cities are facing enormous level of urbanization which is putting excessive pressure
on the infrastructure and resources, especially on inner-city areas or core areas. People in these
areas are facing acute ...
The current mandate of free and compulsory education for all children aged 6-14 years in India is based on the principle of inclusive education. Behind this constructive move is the recognition of education as a fundamental ...
The urban landscape is composed of tangible and intangible elements that co-exist to form the public realm. An integral part of this landscape, ‘urban furniture’ consists of all the static things that make urban spaces ...
Green spaces are considered important natural and human centric spaces in a city. They are considered essential to allow the proper functioning of the natural ecosystem in an urban environment. They are not only necessary ...
With an avid interest of the urban land management and the process of provisioning of the infrastructure amenities of a city and their aspects, I set out to understand the importance of how the unutilized vacant lands in ...
The Old City Core is a historic core, the place where the city originates.
With time City Cores become misfit to the old city because of increasing of
population or changing functions, scale and they are unable to provide ...
Climate change is a most concerning issue in the last few decades. As per the IPCC (Emission Scenarios) [1] this phenomenon is expected to result in a global temperature increase of 1.5 °C. Apart from its impact on annual ...
Human population increase and economic growth agendas (e.g. MBIE, 2015) increase the pressure on natural resources and ecosystems around the world (MEA, 2005). Even more, production needs to be realized from the same finite ...
Streets are the primary unit of city experience. In Indian context street plays a very important role as streets as streets are core component of the community structure in Indian neighbourhoods. After rigorous urban ...
Life of a refugee is suspended between two places: the country of their origin and the country of asylum. According to UNHCR, there are 25.4 million refugees worldwide. Out of the total of 209234 refugees in India, more ...
Urban areas occupy 3% of ice free land area but are cumulatively responsible for emission of
75% of Green House Gases (GHGs), therefore contribute significantly in global warming.
Developing regions are expected to house ...
Unchecked growth of urban population has put forth tremendous demand for infrastructure and resulting in mismatch between demand and supply of transport infrastructure leading to delays, fuel loss, air and noise pollution ...
The universal ideas and principles of modernist architecture have often been employed uncritically without consideration of regional peculiarities, leading to culturally and climatically inappropriate architecture which ...