Slab City

2.1 How to manage the site drainage and its importance. Site drainage management is aim to safeguard the house inhabitants and protect the house from several damage cause by surface water and both internal and external inappropriate moisture (Master builders, 2009). Site drainage management is a very important part of the design of footing system. It is because the site drainage could influence the success of the footing system, the maintenance of the site drainage influencing the economic life

High rate of population grow and improvement in the technology forced individuals to move to rural area. As a result, they use more and more personal vehicles for traveling and commuting to urban areas and big cities each day. On the other side, most bridges in Canada and United States by now are more than 50 years old. Therefore, soon or later, rehabilitation or replacement on bridges are unavoidable (John R. Fowler). However, how to manage the bridge rehabilitation or replacement by having minimum

Kamala das has written the poem in such a manner that it conveys the urbanisation of the city. Urban poetry is a literary art form in which poetry is used to express feelings or to share experiences that are related to living in urban communities. “I take leave of you, fair city, keep your tears, Your anger and your smile for others” Loneliness, busyness, no care to others which are very common in an urbanized city. I feel Kamala das is hoping Mumbai to offer its tears,

INTRO During the “Baby Boomer” era, following WWII, America underwent one of the largest demographic shifts and population growths in history. Huge amounts of home construction on the outskirts of America’s largest cities, known as “levittowns” became the new staple of the American dream, with the houses sporting two car garages, and white picket fences. These low density, predominantly middle class residential districts, were America’s first true suburbs. These suburbs were constructed mainly in

the last few centuries, cities as have evolved to take on the features that are used today to identify the makings of what is a great city. As cities shifted from the concept of the political city to the mercantile city and finally the industrial city, traditional political, economic and social patterns began to take on new forms and functions that transformed them to become the urbanized spaces they are now. Major early cites began in the form of the political city, a place that was the functioning

Foreword: After defeating Carthage in 146 BCE, the roman’s seized large sections of the north African coastline, the conquest and assimilation had slowly begun. More than 100 years after the conquest. To the east and west of modern The roman city of Thamagudi, now called Timgad, in modern day Algeria, has since its destruction at the time of the Arab invasion of 692CE never been the habitation of man. To this Attempting to pacify Northern Africa, the Emperor Trajan strengthened the armies After

BACKGROUND The twenty-first century is the moment from which, for the fist time in history, there will be more people living in cities then in the countryside. The percentage of urban population started to increase in the 19th century, at the end of which only 3% of the world population lived in cities. In slightly more then a century there was an impressive growth in both relative and absolute terms and the trends for 2030 forecast that 5 out 8 billion people will be urban inhabitants. It is important

BACKGROUND AHMEDABAD Ahmedabad was founded roughly 600 years ago, as a walled city on the eastern bank of Sabarmati. Now, it is the seventh largest metropolis in India and the largest in Gujarat. Ahmedabad lies, 500 km north of Mumbai and 96 km from the Gulf of Cambay and has good connectivity with Mumbai, the commercial capital of India and Delhi, the capital of India and is one of the few Indian cities having an international airport. Ahmedabad has historically been one of the most important centres

Transportation & Greenways System Plan In Transportation Alternative's "Bicycle Blueprint" for the five boroughs of New York City, John Kaehny, executive director, states: Making greenway networks a reality will require partnership between planners and advocates, on the one hand, and public officials controlling purse strings on the other. Local elected officials, particularly city council members and borough presidents, have to be reminded that greenways can multiply the value and variety of open space

According to Bemis (1936) “A new conception of the structure of our modern houses is needed, better adapted not only to the social conditions of our day but also to the modern means of production: factories, machinery, technology and research”. Albert Bemis, US housing manufacturer in the early twentieth century has a vested interest in using technology to advance new concepts in the design of houses. Nevertheless he points to the important relationship of the use of technology in the structural