Despite a strong tradition of harmony between the landscape and its settlements, Kathmandu's periphery now stands altered due to contemporary challenges modernisation. It has become contested territory where rapid urbanisation infrastructure projects conflict with valley's last remaining resources. i.e., fertile soil, floodplains, water sources, forests, agricultural land. The is essential in p...

Derivational sequences and harmony scales are collections of relationships between phonological structures that are used to pick out a grammatical surface representation: a surface representation is the final form in a sequence in derivational phonology; it is the optimal form on a scale of relative harmony in optimality phonology. The two approaches would match still further if traversing alon...

The rapid growth of the built environment has been pointed out as one of the major challenges to sustainability in the US. Low density “sprawling” neighborhoods represent the most undesired form of urban growth both for the waste of land and energy they cause, as well as for the lack of a “sense of place” they promote among their inhabitants. Several critiques to such type of urbanization have ...

Combinations of metaheuristics to solve highly constrained combinatorial optimisation problems have recently become a promising research area. Some combinations emerge from integrating evolutionary algorithms and local based algorithms to strike the right balance between global exploration of the search region and local exploitation of promising regions. This study presents hybridization betwee...

This study investigates the distortion of visual colour harmony impression in case of different types of artificial changes among the perceptual attributes of test samples. A set of visual experiments were carried out to investigate the observer’s colour harmony impression as a function of artificial distortions. The visual colour harmony impression of a colour combination appearing harmonious ...

Phonological studies of ATR harmony have led to advances in autosegmental phonology, markedness theory, and locality. Nevertheless, many of our theoretical assumptions may have been based on misanalyzed data or non-rigorous typological assumptions. For example, detailed acoustic and/or articulatory studies have shown that transparent vowels are not always transparent (Gick et al 2006, Richart &...

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...