There is a call among researchers and educators to cultivate empathy through the education system. They argue that narration and storytelling as a pedagogical tool has a big role to play in the clarification of academic ...

Driving is an action of humans, which allows him/her motion through space from place to place. The road landscape creates the character and the spatial quality, which is vital to decide the driving safe. ‘Southern Expressway’, ...

Dreaming of a future condition for our own beloved cities, we always think that, the problems those we are facing today would not being faced tomorrow. Besides this, the city will blend harmoniously with natural environment ...

Building sector consumes a considerable portion of energy and is contributes to global warming due to relevant emissions. Therefore the request for environmental sustainable development poses a critical challenge to human ...

This study investigates the emergency preparedness of the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka, focusing on hotels and restaurants in the southern coastal belt. A questionnaire on emergency preparedness was provided to 30 ...

Shakharibazar in Old Dhaka, one of the first streets to be built in the region of South Asia, is a sanctuary to a very specific ethnic group, and the only known home to some craftsmen. Shop house is the generic archetype ...

Disasters have become frequent phenomena in Sri Lanka over the past few years. The latest incidents were experienced in May 2017. Although a frequent occurrence, the preparedness of government authorities and communities, ...

Gurugram, Haryana, is the melting pot of different social and cultural stratas of the Indian population. The instant urbanization phenomenon of Gurugram, post the IT boom has resulted in a global, shimmering city with no ...

Community-based Architecture can generally be termed as a process of building production that relies on collective communal effort in order to build spaces for collective communal use. A process of such ‘collective’ building ...

The world’s population is increasing rapidly, with more than half living in Asia, mostly in urban areas. Accordingly, it is vital to reduce the current and future vulnerabilities of disasters in Asia as a precaution to ...