Average ticket size of residential units declines 14% in 2016: Cushman &...
The ticket size of new launches in the residential segment across top eight cities saw an average decline of 14% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2016.
View ArticlePhantoms of Moscow: museum unveils city's unrealised architecture
Six projects from 1920s and 30s take centre stage at Design Museum in London to mark centenary of Russian Revolution
View ArticleAICTE approves single entrance test for engineering courses from next year
Admission to all engineering colleges across the country will be done through a single entrance examination from next year with the AICTE approving a regulation in this regard, sources said.The All...
View ArticleFrom the Pleasure of Preserving to the Pleasure of Displaying - The Politics...
Organisation: Institute of Contemporary History - FCSH/NOVA; Centro de investigação em Arquitectura, Urbanismo e Design - FAUL
View ArticleCity, Community and the Transformation of Space in Post-Eastern Bloc societies
The fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe brought with it new challenges and opportunities for civil society formations. Finally groups had the chance to organise themselves away from the...
View ArticleGovt working on Green Urban Mobility Scheme
MPs can send their suggestions, if any, (sic!) said Minister of State for Urban Development Rao Inderjit Singh said during Question Hour.
View ArticleSurat grows, creates new markets
SURAT: Diamond City is all set to join the list of India's top 10 metropolitan cities by 2018 with household income of over Rs 800 billion in a year. On the back of robust population growth, investment...
View ArticleCivil Engineers Release U.S. Infrastructure Scorecard: D+
The report grades a wide variety of infrastructure, 16 in all. Only one form received a decent grade: freight rail, a 'B'.
View ArticleWest Bengal government boycotts Centre’s Swachhata Survekshan
The survey conducted by the Union urban development (UD), as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), has 500 cities across India in its list. But the 60 cities from West Bengal did not participate in...
View ArticleREDAN identifies land, finance as major housing challenges
The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) has identified land issues and lack of finance as major hindrance to achieving housing for all in the country.Ugochukwu Chime, the President of...
View ArticleMake better society with your designs: ArchitectSpeak
NAGPUR: "When you work on some project, then, after a point of time you come to realize that it is a reflection of your inner exploration and outer manifestation. Concepts or the project which came to...
View ArticleScientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"
ICOMOS General Assembly & Symposium 2017, India
View ArticleIndia needs to work towards faecal sludge management: Expert
India needs to move beyond the current drive for open defecation-free cities and work towards faecal sludge management for a safe urban environment without any risk to land and rivers, said an expert...
View ArticleOver 6 lakh houses sanctioned under PM scheme in two years
der the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), a total number of 603,854 persons have been sanctioned houses during 2015-2016, as per information provided by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty...
View Article‘Architecture of Independence’ in Africa’s Fast-Growing Cities
The United Nations projects that, by midcentury, more than half of Africans will live in cities. A string of them — Lagos, Nigeria; Kinshasa, Congo; Cairo — are already more populous than New York.
View ArticleGovernment unveils revised building code; builders made liable
NEW DELHI: Builders can be made liable for the safety of the structure, as per the new national building code proposed by the Centre to be followed by the states. The revised code was unveiled by...
View ArticleAll under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable
Suburban malls may be a dying breed, but in cities from New York to Hong Kong, new malls are thriving by seamlessly blending into the urban fabr
View ArticleDevelopment plan raises fears for Moscow Le Corbusier gem
A striking combination of glass, curves and straight lines -- the Tsentrosoyuz building in downtown Moscow stands as a monument to modernist architecture and the genius of its famed designer Le...
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