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...

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...

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...

An increasing amount of research has been devoted to internet search query data and its application to predict a broad variety of indicators such as stock/property markets, unemployment or flu infections.This paper aims to investigate whether changes in internet queries can be used to formulate...

This thesis advises on the optimal index construction technique on behalf of the commercial real estate broker organisation Dynamis in the Netherlands. The database contains 1993 rent-renewals in fifteen years of brokerage from 1984 to 1998. Out of the plethora of indices available in the real...

This paper aims to examine the issue of economic diversification in the context of the office markets in New York and London. These two markets are two of the most liquid office markets and attract a large degree of international investment. However, both cities are key financial service centres...