Urban India has around 3000 urban local bodies (ULBs). The Seventy Fourth Constitutional Amendment Act (1992) has bestowed political power, administrative authority and functional autonomy on local bodies. The functional domain of ULBs now covers planning, regulation and development aspects....

Infrastructure provision is a multidimensional problem for governments and businesses globally. Decades of under-investment within developed economies combined with an insatiable appetite for infrastructure within emerging economies has culminated in an infrastructural deficit estimated at circa...

Infrastructure provision is a multidimensional problem for governments and businesses globally. Decades of under-investment within developed economies combined with an insatiable appetite for infrastructure within emerging economies has culminated in an infrastructural deficit estimated at circa...

Growing global consciousness for sustainable development necessitates the requirement for location specific responses to environmental problems in terms of planning and design of urban built form. A quantitative study was undertaken to compare the energy use of two residential neighbourhoods of...

Urban regeneration (UR) projects encompass complex decision-making processes that usually comprise a great amount of information collected from numerous data sources which may be uncertain, inconsistent or incomplete. Many stakeholders and other actors provide subjective judgments that need to...

A quantitative research was undertaken to calculate the energy use in mobility in two residential neighbourhoods having distinct urban form characteristics in a middle tier city in India. The research considered four key attributes of mobility: mode of travel, trip distances, trip frequency and...

The unprecedented growth in population of Delhi and the consequent haphazard developments had been putting severe pressures on the existing physical and social infrastructure since 1950s. The region comprising portions of 3 adjoining states around Delhi measuring a total area of over 33500...

Real estate in the National Capital Region of Delhi has experienced an unprecedented boom in development specifically in the industrial, information technology and retail sectors of the economy which in turn is creating a escalation in demand for residential and office space. The liberal...