Our living environment is under real threat of various global issues like global warming, rising sea-level, changing weather patterns, floods and hurricanes etc as well as local issues likes housing affordability, traffic congestion, pollution, health and environmental degradation etc. All these issues are inter-related and cities are the major contributor. These issues can’t be addressed in is...

In developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. This situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

introduction the urban population experienced rapid growth in the recent decades, particularly between 1975 and 2000 when it has reached from 1.5 to more than 2 billion people. by turn of the century; half of the world's populations are concentrated in cities. this would severely affect the quality of life in urban areas. accordingly, cities will be faced with significant challenges in inf...

Green technologies for the environmental upgrading of infrastructures Abstract: Over the last few decades, the globalization phenomenon has determined the exponential development – from an economic, cultural and political standpoint – of traffic flows, the number of means and infrastructures involved in communication and exchange. At the same time, these represent one of the most complicated en...

Critical infrastructures form a technological skeleton of our world by providing us with water, food, electricity, gas, transportation, communication, banking, and finance. Moreover, as urban population increases, the role of infrastructures become more vital. In this paper, we adopt a network perspective and discuss the ever growing need for fundamental interdisciplinary study of critical infr...

Urban mobility infrastructures are crucial in connecting people to a city and the prospects it provides. Through critical review of literature on growth cities South Asia, transport initiatives policies, existing situation, this paper highlights barriers which impact accessibility thus, ridership. As Delhi gears up become world's most populated city, how does its infrastructure fare enabling us...