Sit Alshai is a Sudanese local term that means the lady who sells tea, coffee and other drinks to passersby. There are many issues related to the Tea Lady, as she represents the socio-economic changes in the Sudanese ...

Brussels is a city with immense potentials and opportunities. Being at the heart of Europe, it is coherently connected with rest of the world both physically and figuratively. However, these opportunities and connections ...

The study focuses on the first and last-mile walkability through the perspective of a daily commuter. Traditional walkability measures include different parameters such as scenic routes and other amenities, daily commuters ...

In Sri Lanka, there is a shortage of suitable embankment material for road construction due to the country's increasing demand for highways and economic crisis. Meanwhile, industrial waste products such as fly ash and rice ...

“Road traffic noise” is becoming a serious problem for civilians living close to roads with heavy traffic in Sri Lanka. According to the statistics of Department of Motor Traffic, Sri Lanka, the total number of registered ...

This paper starts from the debate with 'the problem of the simplistic notion that more green spaces are required when density is increased is that it does not consider the characteristics of people living in higher density ...

Increasingly serious environmental degradation has given new emphasis to the need for sustainable development. Such development take the community acts as the basic unit for holistic implementation. One emerging development ...

This article describes a three-year process of local participation in the sustainable housing design in Soi Wat Lung Ban Community, which was selected through a participatory process. Adapting Hamdi’s (1996) Participatory ...

Since the 1990s, the content of urban redevelopment has been sharply transformed and including vibrant elements from economic to cultural, historic, social, and environmental considerations, which is termed as the ...

This paper is a report on part of a research project commissioned by the Crown Property Bureau, Thailand (CPB). CPB is a quasi-government agency responsible for managing the real property of the Crown of the Kingdom of ...