Khan, Smita. "Evolving Consciousness in the Developing World: Analysis of...
Abstract Research validates that conducive learning environments in which architects, school managements and policy have a large role to enhance Quality of Life in school years. This paper critically...
View ArticleAzmi, Ezwani, and Muhamad Zamani Ismail. "Cultural Heritage Tourism: Kapitan...
This study has identified a cultural heritage product of the Indian Muslim community that has contributed significantly to the tourism industry in Penang, namely Kapitan Keling Mosque. The study also...
View ArticleSunmugam, Sashikala, Suzana Hj. Muhammad, and Agnes Liau Wei Lin. "Identity...
This essay explores selected Indian characters depicted in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1935) and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006). This study finds that these characters are struggling...
View ArticleKolay, Saptarshi. "Cultural Heritage Preservation of Traditional Indian Art...
Traditional art and craft, practiced by various craft-guilds in the country are the evidence of Indian cultural heritage. Though the narratives depicted in the form of painted façade or...
View ArticleAhmed, Iftekhar. "Building Resilience of Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh."...
This paper is derived from a pilot project implemented by Habitat for Humanity during 2012-2013, where the author was a technical advisor. Rapid urbanisation and the growth of slums in developing...
View ArticleRecio, Redento B., Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, and Sonia Roitman. "Revisiting...
The presence of street vending in the urban global South indicates a vibrant economy that is often tagged as informal. When situated in the larger contexts, it persists in an atmosphere of poverty and...
View ArticleSengupta, Urmi, and Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyaya. "Lost in transition? Emerging...
Kathmandu has been the last few cities in the world which retained its medieval urban culture up until twentieth century. Various Hindu and Buddhist religious practises shaped the arrangement of...
View ArticleHabibi, Rana. "The institutionalization of modern middle class neighborhoods...
In the 1940s, Iran experienced dramatic changes in urban form, as worldwide modernization movements were embodied in new ‘modern’ neighborhood units in Tehran. Proposals for these neighborhoods, like...
View ArticleGordon, Stewart. "In the Aura of the King: Trans-Asian, Trans-Regional, and...
Shortly after the Battle of Taikota (1565) between Vijayanagara and the combined forces of the Deccan Sultanates an Ahmadnagar courtier wrote an illuminated mas̱navī (long poem) celebrating the victory...
View ArticleKhan, Smita. "Research-practice Paradigm: An Asian Perspective." Procedia -...
This keynote paper examines the position of global south in world scenario and calls attention to the urgent need of a responsive architecture to counter the negativities and callousness that is...
View ArticleChatterjee, Jaideep. "The (dis)Entanglements of the Design(ed)?" Procedia -...
In 2006, the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) along with the Lt. Governor of Delhi and the Government of Delhi instituted a “task-force” comprising “experts” (architects, urban designers, and...
View ArticleRao, Ajay K.. "From Fear to Hostility: Responses to the Conquests of...
In the second decade of the fourteenth century, twenty years after ascending the throne in Delhi, Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Khaljī sent the former slave Malik Kāfūr on a series of southern campaigns,...
View ArticleDayaratne, Ranjith. "Environment-behaviour Research and the Teaching of...
This paper presents an experiment that attempted to incorporate environment-behavior research into teaching architecture. The author was inspired by the ‘Moratuwa Experiment’; a design studio offered...
View ArticleDas, Diganta. "Hyderabad: Visioning, restructuring and making of a high-tech...
Hyderabad is the second largest metropolitan region in India. The advent of globalization in India has opened the door for Hyderabad to brand itself as the popular destination for high-tech industries....
View ArticleDupont, Véronique. "Socio-spatial differentiation and residential segregation...
This paper focuses on the pattern of social-spatial differentiation and segmentation of the metropolitan area of Delhi. The main objective is to analyse the mechanisms of residential segregation and...
View ArticleDUPONT, VÉRONIQUE D. N.. "The Dream of Delhi as a Global City." International...
The ambition to develop Delhi as a global city is rooted in the liberalization reforms of the 1990s. Parts of the city region were integrated with the global economy, providing international firms with...
View ArticleWescoat, James L.. "Gardens of invention and exile: the precarious context of...
The second Mughal emperor, Humayun (1530–1556), had a troubled reign which fell between two of the most impressive periods in Islamic garden history. His father Babur introduced Central Asian...
View ArticleAshworth, Gregory, and David M. Bruce. "Town walls, walled towns and tourism:...
The paradoxical relationship between tourists and town walls is examined in the wider context of the walled town tourism. Such towns may be paradigm cases for historic towns as attractions for...
View ArticleArnold, David. "On the road: a social itineration of India." Contemporary...
Taking early nineteenth-century European travel narratives as its point of entry, this article suggests ways in which the subject of roads in India can be more fully addressed. Rather than regarding...
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