“A liveable community is one that has affordable and appropriate housing, supportive community features and services, and adequate mobility options, which together facilitate personal independence and the engagement of ...
To understand buildings and environments, we must first understand the society and culture in which they exist. The most famous and profound architectural trends from Renaissance architecture to the Bauhaus movement found ...
The penal system has been a reflection of society's changing attitudes toward crime and its consequences (Fikfak, et al., 2015) over centuries. The prison is the 19th Century a result of this. Solutions to dealing with the ...
This paper explores the issue of exploiting anonymous urban space and buildings to improve the quality of people’s life in developing countries such as China. And the background of the issue is based on the research on ...
This study explores the emerging phenomena of gated communities in and around the second largest city, Kandy in Sri Lanka, within the context of a larger study aimed at understanding the changing residential dynamics and ...
The strategic locations of the Dutch Forts were built on an urban set-up based on ease of collection and export of spices, elephant tusks and other commodities. These points developed into urban areas centred around this ...
This paper studies the criticality of ‘Kulangal’ in the context of war-stricken Jaffna in an environmental perspective, looking at these drainage ponds as having potential to be incorporated as a component of public spaces ...
This paper primarily argues about the nature of an urban void in the contemporary urban culture. In the age of urbanization, the role of an urban open space is manifold, and urban green and urban open space remains one of ...
The research objective of this paper is to prevent accidents that endanger personal safety by setting up a multi-level active emergency defence system in the public building space of the holiday tourist area.
The current ...
City performance ensures references to the spatial form of the city or any built environment as places for people. The quality of a place is a result of the combined effect of place and society that inhabits in it. In ...
Landscape Architecture and hotel industry have a closer affinity considering its huge contribution for the growth, branding and attracting tourists. For a destination to be branded, it will be need more than one specification. ...
The metamorphosis of urban informality challenges the formalization of the traditional design and planning processes of a city. This paper discusses the rapidly changing variation of informal uses of open urban spaces and ...
This study examines how individual households have been emerging in the low lying areas during the period 2005-2012 in the core study area of Colombo Metropolitan Region ( CMR) and also the process through which they have ...
Conflicts between human and elephants are one of the most widespread regional issues in Sri Lanka, particularly in the dry zone. Moreover, human-elephant conflict is increasing, predominantly in areas where expansion of ...
Urbanization is not a modern phenomenon but, an accelerated growth in urban areas and urban activities is relatively new low latitude in third world countries. Urbanization in third world is characterized by increasing ...
The importance of the relationship between human and landscape has been the main focus of many studies as a result of the urbanization. The complex lifestyles of urbanites have proven the necessity of ‘the sense of ...
Extensive use of complex cleaning chemicals and disinfectants in the healthcare industry has raised concern over the effectiveness of conventional cleaning in creating a safe and healthy environment. The increasing rate ...
Indian Cities are transforming at a frantic pace. As cities expand, villages and rural areas on the periphery become an integral part of the city fabric. Unregulated Developments are often a byproduct of urban villages ...