This thesis examines recent trends in land use transformation taking place in the peri-urban areas of Faridabad city being one of the fastest growing cities and part of NCR. It demonstrates that urbanization is key factor ...

One of the current issues pertaining to urban traffic is the role of public transport. The recent energy crisis, the steep fall in the environment quality of roads and the sever congestion have brought this subject to the ...

BIM is an intelligent parametric, object-based design methodology that is compelling the design community to transition away from unintelligent nonparametric, computer-aided drafting (CAD) processes. The design communication ...

Growth and development are continuous process, which alters the original shape of a city. Today we are living in the third world, an aftermath of many growth, development and decay process or in a single word "A big ...

While walking on the street we are surrounded by media that provides us information about the environment. Street graphics is one of the extremely important form of this media, which includes private hoarding, signboards, ...

The word housing has a broader meaning than house. It embraces not only consideration of the physical structures in which human dwell but also the relation of the house, house to neighbourhood and community, and house to ...

In today's energy scenario the Kyoto Protocol has internationally agreed to Conserve Energy, so as to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. To achieve this objective developed countries, where Energy Conservation Legislations ...

This thesis aims to explore the relationship between crime and residential environment by appropriate intervention through architecture. This relationship is achieved by survey of residential area and case study of various ...

The designing of buildings is a challenge whether it is in a plain or elevated land. But in the hills the major influencing factor among many others is climate, which determines the building configuration and form and gives ...

Right from historic times, urban spaces have been the heart of our cities. Be it the Greek Agora or the Roman Forum, the Renaissance Piazza or the English Square, the urban open space has been the heart and soul of our ...