Urban Planning

Why urban planning required? Future historians may well decide that the remarkable phenomenon of our time is the massive urbanization. That is engulfing the third world. Within the span of the last two decades, towns and cities all over Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been doubling and tripling in size. India, which has the…

Cities have emerged as the dominant form of human settlement, and they are significant economic and environmental actors. Since 1950, the global urban population has increased by roughly five times from 0.7 billion to 3.9 billion in 2014. It is expected to grow by another 60 per-cent by 2050 when 6.3 billion people are projected…