“I believe the successful city is like a fabulous party. People stay because they are having a great time” – Amanda Burden Amanda Burden, 77, is an American urban planner and…
The city famous for sweets, primarily gazak, is located on the fertile banks of the river Ganges and Yamuna. The town situated in western Uttar Pradesh has a very rich…
The Image of the City had set out to become the American urban planner, Kevin Lynch’s, most influential works in the twentieth century. A product of five endeavouring years of research…
Architecture is inspired by thoughts and emotions and also requires research and theory that completes a structure. It is an ever-growing field with immense knowledge. To expand this knowledge, here…
The Urban Problem According to a study by the United Nations, the number of inhabitants living in urban areas is 50 percent and is said to grow to 70 percent…
Going compact does not necessarily mean a drastic shift in the sizes of homes. It refers to realizing the trend of gradually shifting towards smaller homes over time until we…
The lack of decision making of politics and governance in a time when major societal changes occur at an increasingly faster pace and the dissatisfaction with the decision process makes…
Cities in the Future – From the beginning of time, there have been certain milestones that have changed human life as we know it – ranging from the discovery of…
An internationally recognized leader on worldwide climate change, Christiana Figueres was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from 2010 to 2016. She is…
Peri-urban sectors such as those of Chennai, once described as rural, have been converted into places of comfortable living and globally financed special economic zones. Chennai has expanded by occupying…
A slum is identified as an area of unplanned human habitation, which can be found nearly in every country. These settlements, within a city, lack basic facilities such as clean…
‘To be or not to be,’ Does it pierce our mind anymore? More as a civilization than Prince Hamlet? \ Where are we on the scale of evolution? Where are…