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Parking Management in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Vadodara City
Abstract: The Indian cities are developing and spreading rapidly. The parking issue has become a major planning problem in urban areas of major cities because of rapid economical and vehicle population growth. It is stated that population growth and increasing living standards of people are responsible for the risein the city’s vehicular population. Affordable prices and subsidized parking fees are leading people to refer private vehicle over public transit as their …
Published in International Journal of Housing and Human Settlement Planning · Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2022 · pp. 45–53 Read article
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Vertical Landscaping – A Tool for Sustainable Tall Buildings in Tropical Climates
Abstract: With rapid urbanization there has been an ever increasing demand for office and housing space in cities, resulting in taller building typologies. The large concentration of development in urban centers causes an imbalance to the ecology of the place as it replaces vast quantities of natural reserve and vegetation. In recent decades, this has triggered many environmental issues, the city has become more aware and urban planners are willing to …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2017 · pp. 29–37 Read article
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Identification of Ecological Open Spaces of Urban Areas for Smart City Development: A Case of Jabalpur City in Madhya Pradesh in India
Abstract: The birth of a human habitation starts from an idea of shelter in a natural place which satisfies the parameter of food, water and security. These centers in course of time expand and utilize the neighborhood resources for land, minerals, forests, water from ground and surface water bodies, etc. thereby depleting the original values and in the process ending all vital open spaces which were once the cause of genesis. …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 23–32 Read article
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Sustainable Cities: A Sustainable Future Growth
Abstract: In the present scenario the cities are growing and over-growing in terms of population which is creating a problem for its citizens to get their part of luxury, comfort and sometimes even fulfilling their basic needs. This over growing population needs to be controlled because of its over burdening of land, depletion of natural resources and misbalancing environmental harmony. This has tempted in the great need for sustainable growth of …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 44–47 Read article
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Canal Front Regeneration as Sustainable Approach: Bist Doab Canal
Abstract: People are drawn to water. Human interaction with water is prime feature that calls for canal front development. People have a strong desire to feel it, reach it; and thus it becomes very important that approach to water should be given, public space production along the canal shore should be primary purpose. The impact of public spaces on a canalfront can be seen in particular area’s development in economy, people’s …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 35–44 Read article
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Study of Vertical Greenery System as Passive Approach for Sustainable Design
Abstract: With rapid urbanization and population growth, the use of land for construction of residential, industrial areas and other infrastructure is resulting in microclimate deterioration and air pollution. Due to urbanization, the urban heat island effect has become a serious problem. Urban greenery is attracting an increased attention as the mitigation against urban thermal environment. Subsequently, greenery has turned into a key component of urban change and the outer surfaces of …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 51–57 Read article
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Importance of Water at Pilgrimage Holy Town, Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
Abstract: Katra depends majorly on tourism for its economic boost. The number of people taking the holy pilgrimage of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi is increasing every year. However, with this increase comes positive as well as negative impacts. This increase has provided Katra with an economic boost but it’s also eating away at its natural resources. One of the most needed and hardest hit resources has been water; especially the Banganga …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 11–20 Read article
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Decentralization Strategies for Ludhiana city (Implications for balanced Regional Growth)
Abstract: The goal of the current paper is to evolve certain spatial strategies for the Ludhiana City that include a polycentric system of settlements. Cities all over the world have experienced several hurdles over the years, and these challenges have hurt their development, efficiency, and performance, resulting in aslew of dangerous issues. In recent decades, Ludhiana city has also witnessed unprecedented population growth as well as physical growth. A close understanding …
Published in International Journal of Landscape Planning and Architecture · Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2022 · pp. 35–45 Read article
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Urban Housing Affordability in Indian Context
Abstract: Abstract “Affordability” has been perceived to be the key problem in the housing sector, particularly for lower income groups. Defining affordable housing in India is a difficult task given that for every square kilometer of the country the dynamics of the market are different. Developing affordable housing in Indian cities faces significant challenges due to several economic, regulatory and urban issues. There are new forms of poverty in urban areas, …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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Exploring Non-Motorized Transportation for Indian Cities: A Sustainable System
Abstract: Abstract The existing modal share in Indian cities is in favor of non-motorized transport but there is a minimal infrastructure available to support non-motorized transportation. In most of the Indian cities, even in the megacities of India (population more than 8 million), 30% of the trips are made by non-motorized transportation, but the adverse climatic conditions, inappropriate infrastructure and facilities for non-motorized transportation and increasing accident risk to non-motorized users, …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 9–14 Read article
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Bamboo Reinforced Low Cost House - A Case Study
Abstract: The objective is to set up a low cost house using bamboo and its culms as reinforcement material. A prototype of such a construction has been undertaken in an area of 255 sq.ft. As bamboo acts as a structural member, it can replace steel as reinforcement. The proposed structure consists of four supporting column and one main column at its centre to achieve a better economy due to reduction in …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 59–70 Read article
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Approach to Residential Satisfaction Studies in Asian and African countries—A Review
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse through literature review the approach adopted in Asian and African countries with regard to Residential Satisfaction studies. The home creates a significant impact on human beings. The challenges faced by the housing industry range from inadequacy in meeting the needs of the end users to unsatisfactory performance. Residential satisfaction is often used as an Adhoc tool in evaluating housing projects. Satisfaction studies …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 29–34 Read article
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Urban Housing and its Predicament: Slums - a Neglected Haven
Abstract: The rapid growth of slums in the developing world appears to have three root causes which,in addition to the underlying problems of poverty, must be addressed through appropriate policies: the ‘pull’ towards the city, the ‘push’ away from rural areas and the increase in population size. When combined with inadequate city infrastructure for coping with such an influx, including “the inability of the urban poor to access affordable land for …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 1–6 Read article
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Slum Rehabilitation: Re-Location or In Situ Rehabilitation
Abstract: In rapid globalizations, today every towns and metropolis are depending more and more on workforce coming from developing countries, smaller cities, villages, rural areas. Worldwide any metropolitan city’s working-class people are coming from neighbor towns, villages. However, cities are not able to provide better life style and sufficient livelihoods to our working-class people who are immigrating from rural to cities. Urban slum and this problem are widely spreading across the …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 84–90 Read article
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A Case of Agra City: Solid Waste Management in Tier II Indian Cities
Abstract: In India urban population is increasing day by day due to which unhealthy and unhygienic living conditions causes’ environmental degradation. Agra is one of the Jem for India, as it’s a city of Tajmahal; but day by day solid waste management creating huge problems and making city worst. This paper is all about how Agra is depleting day by day and what precautions we need to take up.
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 28–31 Read article
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An Analysis on the Current Perspective of Urban Design
Abstract: We know that urban design is historically played a major role in development of cities. Urban design, as a presently discipline, is relatively new compared to linked disciplines of architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture. The close relation of urban design with these allied disciplines has also been the cause for its unclear nature, and its muddled definition. Accordingly, it is appealed here that a reexamination of the definition, status, …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 42–48 Read article
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Construction Safety Management
Abstract: Construction industry is an important part of the economy in many countries and often seen as a driver of economic growth especially in developing countries. Typically, construction industry contributes to 11% of gross domestic products (GDP) in most developing countries. However many construction activities are inherently health and safety risks such as working at height, working underground, working in confined spaces and close proximity to falling materials, handling load manually, …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 12–20 Read article
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Affordable Eco-housing, Purnia
Abstract: Affordable housing is a problem that many countries are taking stock of, world over. While rapid urbanisation, growing cities provide various opportunities; there are fallouts in terms of proliferation of slums, high prices of land and building materials which render houses unaffordable for the segment at the bottom of the pyramid. Therefore, the need for adequate housing for the low-income groups will substantially increase. Most importantly, creating housing for these …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 7–11 Read article
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Development of Critical Thinking through Undergraduate Architectural Training
Abstract: Critical reasoning is an elementary tool for doing well in all walks of life today. It is gaining importance in a time of constantly evolving work profiles, multicontextual problems scenarios and in living a more aware life- unplagued by sociocentrism and egocentrism. A research conducted by James Flynn across different specialisation domains at one of America’s top universities concluded that ‘there is no sign that any department attempts to develop …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 18–27 Read article
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Parking Management Plan for Old Washermanpet, Chennai, India
Abstract: This project is to avoid congestion in the parking area by implementing a parking management system. Mainly in Public places such as market areas, hospitals, function-halls, offices, shopping malls, and Commercial hotspot areas. Old Washermanpet is a very busy commercial shopping area, comprising of various shopping complexes of electronic goods, household goods, clothes, jewelry, etc. Due to the non-availability of a specific parking area, they keep their vehicles along the …
Published in International Journal of Town Planning and Management · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 51–56 Read article