Bahrain like all Gulf Cooperation Council countries has transformed in a few decades from a traditional country to a modern one due to oil discovery. This modern life has created many problems within the city; the most ...

Urban Public Space (UPS) is a vital component in the formation of a cityscape. Such spaces further enrich the public requirements of activity nodes facilitating people’s interaction and relaxation. Thereby quality of UPS ...

In post-conflict settings, ‘reconciliation’ is the catch-cry of social pressure groups, aggrieved victims and government institutions attempting to account for the past, acknowledge human suffering and transition from war ...

With increase in population and limitations in urban land, there is a growing demand for vertical housing resulting in a dramatic increase in the construction and the occupation of vertical housing. Such fast growing ...

Cities agglomerate power, capital and people. They become the arena where issues that may be pan region or even pan nation play out. India still struggles to see its ideal of democracy percolate into its society or translate ...

Dubai, one of the world’s fastest growing cities, has created at breathtaking speed one of the world’s largest waterfront developments. Much to the detriment of its ecology, multi-billion dollar projects, enormous human-made ...

With the colonial intrusion in Sri Lanka, emergence of new settlements and decay of older settlements were occurred. These new towns emerged as a reflection of colonial found mostly on major traffic arteries. The development ...

Istanbul has become a construction site by the beginning of 1990s following a dramatic change in policies on housing and urbanization policies. While the new middle class was invading city centre, urban poor was evicted ...

Urbanisation is a process of population concentration and it is one of the global challenges of today and of the coming decades. As a country emerging from the uncertainty created by civil unrest and natural disasters such ...

Over the last few decades, the part of the world identified as ‘developing’ has witnessed dramatic increase in urban population, drastic changes to its urban landscapes, and the launch of separate construction markets with ...