A Study on New Urbanism and Compact City and their Influence on Urban Mobility
Oct 5. 2017 | 2017 2nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE), Singapore.
The effective utilization of mass transit systems and walkable cities are becoming the prime focus of urban development. On this backdrop, this paper studies the concepts of New Urbanism and Compact city to understand their capability and extent for a much needed urban restructure.
User Refinements in Architectural Space
Dec 2012 | International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications
The society recognizes ‘architects’ as the absolute masters of space determination, design, building planning and construction supervision. Despite achieving the feeling of belonging to the user, many individuals still make adjustments to the architect’s design. How is the space formation being incomplete here? Is it because many users end up accepting, unconditionally, the architect’s creativity and adapt themselves to their four walls or do they complete, themselves, the nuances of functionality and space formation?
An Analysis on the Concept of Urban Densification and its Implications on Transportation
The concept of urban densification is back on the global docket and urban designers, planners and policy makers are relooking at densification as a possible solution for a sustainable urban development. This paper delineates the various aspects of urban densification on the backdrop of mobility and transportation and ascertains if the sole theory of density is adequate to mitigate the issues the urban environment is facing currently and in the future.
A Review on Cultural Principles of Modernity and its Significance on Offshoring Practices
The world is gazing into a future of liquid modernity where industries and manufacturing is relieving itself from the clutches of space and time. This paper analyses the concept of modernity and ascertains whether the era of heavy modernity has truly ended.
Exploring Passive Connection among Passengers as a Condition for a Livable City
The technologies which were supposed to connect more people have, in fact, isolated them. Isolated individuals degrade the well-being of a community.
This paper explores the bonding among people in the context of transportation and argues that there is an underlying connection among human beings, as passengers, which is subtle and passive.