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Planning strategies for conservation and management of urban low-lying areas with reference to settlement development

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dc.contributor.author Somasiri, J
dc.date.accessioned 2014-07-04T16:10:24Z
dc.date.available 2014-07-04T16:10:24Z
dc.date.issued 2014-07-04
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/10216
dc.description.abstract This individual dissertation for Planning Strategies for Management and Conservation of urban low-lying areas with reference to settlement development spread over five chapters. The chapter one includes concept and definition of low-lying areas and low-lying area relationship will be considered. The human behavior and settlement relationship also will be considered. The Chapter Two discussed about the importance of low-lying area and how it link to settlement development will be considered. In Chapter Two further discuss about how lowlying areas importance in land supply, recreational facilities, environmental condition. The Chapter Two discuss on Economic Aspect, Physical Aspect, Environmental Aspect and Sociological Aspect of the low-lying areas importance. The Chapter Three discuss about the problem and potential of urban low-lying areas. In this Chapter the resource potentiality and magnitude of the problem will be considered. The policies related to urban low-lying area reclamation and mitigating action will discussed in this chapter. The Chapter Three further discuss about the action taken to conserve urban lowlying areas and government policies also discussed. The institutional setup on conservation and management of urban low-lying areas will be discussed. The Chapter Four discussed about the case study. How the sample select, selection criterions, selection of study area will be discussed. The Management and Conservation step will be discussed through the data obtain from the case study. The hypothesis will be examine in this Chapter. This Chapter spread through several aspects. Basic family background of resident of the case study area, their income land related problem sanitary, conservation steps will be discussed in this Chapter. The Chapter Five includes about the conclusion and recommendation. How will be the future continuation of urban low-lying areas will be discussed. What are the necessary steps to conserve and management of the urban low-lying areas, will be finalized. Chapter Five includes the strategies for conservation and management of urban low-lying areas. This is the final Chapter of the study and concludes the study. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING-Thesis ; URBAN DEVELOPMENT ; URBAN DEVELOPMENT-Sri Lanka ; TOWN PLANNING en_US
dc.title Planning strategies for conservation and management of urban low-lying areas with reference to settlement development en_US
dc.type Thesis-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.degree M.Sc. en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Town and Country Planning en_US
dc.date.accept 2003
dc.identifier.accno 80574 en_US


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