The thesis aims to highlight "The Rote of Feasibility Studies in India's Emerging Shopping Center Industry". There has been a plenty of concern over the apparent over-supply and impending failure of several shopping centre ...

Every citizen experiences a wonderful opportunity to appreciate the influence and significance of the structures that make up the urban landscape. The built environment, like its outstanding and unique natural surroundings, ...

Historic communities across world are searching for ways to improve their local economies, enhance their quality of life and revitalize their neighborhoods while preserving their cultural and natural heritage. In today's ...

The work is an attempt to understand the relationship between Design and Economics. There are, in practice, frequent and bitter conflicts between those whose major concern is design and those whose major concern is obtaining ...

"A penny saved is a penny earned", they said. So with joules of energy! With recent exponential increase in energy pricing, the formerly neglected or under estimated concept of energy efficiency and conservation have ...

Planning is a continuous process and the planning system should ensure this continuity. Commencing from 1915, when Bombay Town Planning Act was passed which enabled preparation of land use plan within the city limits, town ...

Being one of the basic requirements of human existence it becomes highly imperative to manage the total available water, more so because it is not replaceable or replicable. The chapter 1 first of all gives a brief overview ...

Building services act as life line of any building. During earlier times when the architects were sole in charge of the building operations they were also the service engineers. Since at that had a knowledge of all the ...

It is very fascinating to imagine future, the advanced societies, systems and spaces we would be living in; even just a thought of it gives satisfaction. Looking at other side of the coin one can comprehend the troubles ...

The egregious homogenization and placeless ness in contemporary architecture makes one feel perplexed and faceless in this age of technology. The repercussion of identity crisis in concurrence with the process of ...