Housing is a key human requirement. However, many in the modern world people are living in unsuitable houses. Recently, it has become a global problem and as a result many countries are paying attention to it and various ...

Settlements are categorized as urban and rural and various methods are used to define urban settlements and thereby to measure the level of urban in a particular country or city. Sri Lanka adopts a single criteria based ...

Rapid urbanization lead built-up area expansion is one of the key challenges in present cities. Most of the cities in tropical countries, will be significantly affected by the urban heat which is caused by high-density ...

Currently, Colombo is being developed very fast as the Commercial Capital, to make the most vibrant commercial and logistic hub of Asia under the vision of “The miracle of South Asia”. As a part of the process, the government ...

Whether the Tourism industry generates many negative social and economical to the communities and environment it has become largest fastest growing industry of the world. Eco tourism can be identified as a rapidly growing ...

With the advent of the liberalized economic culture in 1977 in Sri Lanka, the need for urban development became unavoidable. In such a situation, the role of the urban centers became leverage for the blooming of the country‟s ...