Do you perhaps live in a city, or have visited one? Cities are exciting places where there is often lot going on. They offer variety of job opportunities and many leisure activities, like movie theaters, shopping malls, parks, museums. Currently, Earth’s greatest population growth happening within cities. Even though cities cover only 2–3% the land, they consume approximately 75% world’s energy...

Benefiting from the rapid development of global economy, a growing number post-industry products spring up. In comparison to population in suburb, urban presents significantly increasing tendency. Undoubtedly, efficient lifestyle, convenient way traveling and industrial have caused irresistible threat damage nature. The soil desertification, saline-alkali land, forest degradation else environme...

Urbanization in developing world is unprecedented, and in coming few years the number of urban dwellers is expected to exceed rural dwellers. In India, due to unprecedented and unplanned urbanization the slum areas in urban society are rapidly increasing posing serious threat to sustainable development of the country. The objective of the present study is to map out major slum areas of an urban...