Through the land use policies and practices, it is expected to achieve national, regional and local economies, productivity, health and efficiency. Other objectives of those policies, such as improving physical environment, ...

Spatial structure of urban green space has an important effect for the urban planning as well as city dwellers. Green spaces have always been urban ecological resources. It is the most desirable thing in cities as the ...

It is predicted that the Sri Lanka's urban population will be around 55% to 60 % from the total population in year 2020. This is not a phenomenon only for Sri Lanka; entire Asian region particularly developing countries ...

Community Action Planning is a Participatory planning paradigm which emphasizes the involvement of the community at the strategic and management processes in Urban Planning.It is often considered as part of community ...

This is a document recording a process - the evolution of a Community Development Programme for the people living in the inner city areas of Colombo, The process begins with the identification of these areas where ...

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 ...

In this study emphasis has been draw', to locational aspects of public markets. A case study of three selected markets within Gampaha District is used to carry out the evaluation o locational aspects of public ...