CHENNAI: Large share of Tamil Nadu’s urban expansion is occurring beyond the reach of formal city governance as a State ...

The world we live in is often divided using a binary urban-rural distinction, despite a huge gradient of settlement patterns in and around cities – ranging from urban to the most remote rural areas.

The term peri-urban can be defined as the settlements beyond, about or around core cities. It has often observed that the areas congested with the core city are enjoying some basic ...

The government has notified the Goa (National Geospatial Knowledge Based) Land Survey of Urban Habitations Rules, 2025 aimed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Globally, there is a sharp increase in human population in urban areas resulting to competition for land for settlement. With pressure on ...

Residents in Coimbatore’s peri-urban areas have raised concerns that cremation grounds are being used to dump and segregate daily waste, which poses hygiene risks. Residents said waste generated in ...

Widely accepted myths that urbanization negatively impacts food and land use biodiversity are incorrect, according to a team of researchers who developed a framework for evaluating this intersection.

In highly populated European cities, electric scooter and electric bicycle sharing have become an integral part of the mobility sector. A lot of people leverage these last-mile mobility solutions to ...