INTRODUCTION Interventions on behalf of the marginalized in society can assume many formats. In an urban slum the Government of Delhi built one-room houses for some of the residents in what is termed a 'plot area'. Not all residents could be accommodated in the project and the remainder continued to live next door in shanty houses of the slum. Nineteen years later, young children who had migrat...

islamic societies have a deep sense of personal privacy and solitude, which is reflected in their traditional architecture, so that the houses, within the inner face are so that the houses, within the inner face are latency the hijab and muslim homes, the division of space within and outside the cities is one of the most attractive features of islamic cities introverts of the city's archit...

Urbanization and industrialization in China result in dramatic growth of population in urban areas. The housing price rises so high that low-income people living in urban cannot afford to buy their own houses. In order to alleviate their housing plight, affordable housing has been built in mainland China. However, unfair distribution of affordable housing failed to accomplish the goal of this p...

One of the most critical steps in 3D GIs database establishment and revision as well as automated digital photogrammetry is to capture the 3D man-made structures from stereo images automatically and accurately. The key problem for fulfilling such a task is to resolve the correspondence problem between image pairs. The most challenging problems exist in the large scale imagery of dense urban or ...

An urban microeconomic model of households evolving in a 2D cellular automata allows to simulate the growth of a metropolitan area where land is devoted to housing, road network and agricultural/green areas. This system is self-organised: based on individualistic decisions of economic agents who compete on the land market, the model generates a metropolitan area with houses, roads, and agricult...

The use of attractants and larvicides in oviposition traps is of practical interest for the surveillance and control of urban mosquitoes. In addition to increasing the safety of the traps, this combination is essential for an attract-and-kill control strategy based on trapping mosquito eggs. The combination of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) and grass infusion (GI) vs. GI alone we...

Urbanization can alter the organization of ant communities and affect populations of urban pest ants. In this study, we sampled ant communities in urban and suburban yards to understand the habitat factors that shape these communities and influence the abundance of a common pest species, Tapinoma sessile (Say). We used pitfall traps to sample ant communities and a combination of pitfall traps ...

The diel landing/biting periodicity of the Trinidad strain of Aedes aegypti (L.) was monitored using human-bait during January-August 1999. Hourly light intensities were measured both indoors and outdoors at both urban and rural sites. The periodicity of females was diurnal and nocturnal, with 90% arriving during daylight and twilight and 10% during the night. The pattern of landing was trimoda...

Aquiet revolution has been going on in town planning and architectural circles over the last decade. Established zoning and urban design ideas are being questioned and reversed. Urban planners and designers are reviving and reinterpreting ideas that prevailed before the automobile spread our cities apart and hollowed out their cores, before mass transit became the transportation mode for an und...