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 ...

Analysis of climate induced phenomenon is data intensive and the data collected from very sparse network of professional weather stations have become incapable to estimate the magnitude of the climate induced events. ...

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Sri Lanka has experiencing the continuous incensement of motor traffic. Approximately 350,000 vehicles have been yearly added to the vehicle volume in Sri Lanka. It also affects adversely on city functioning by creating ...

The importance of the problem of low income underserved urban settlements in the city of Colombo is beyond debate. According to the Urban Development Authority, 1999 Colombo Development Plan statistics there are about ...