Faculty of Architecture and Design

The fast growing rate of Delhi is leaving something behind it.. the Urban villages of Delhi are kept aside in the race of development. This unparalleled growth of Delhi has lost the vast agricultural land in this process, and villages lost their identity, space and value as they became dependent upon urban areas. But City and villages are growing parallel trying to contrast with each other, still in the different perspective. Identity of villages has been lost and they are accepted by the city as an unwanted part. So called "The City" underestimates the people and culture of these areas. My research is concerned about the quality of life of people living in an Urban Village and their existence in the city.

The aim of this paper is to identify and examine the urban conservation techniques as a guiding tool for the regeneration of a city. Its integration with the natural and built environment, social and cultural aspects and the effect due to economic and political forces.

Floods are not revered by national or regional boundaries. Flooding from across the border requires participation of governments for flood risk management. In 2015, United Nation (UN) adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Target 6.5.2 of SDG aims at international water management requiring co-operation amongst transboundary countries. The upstream and downstream relationships within a transboundary basin is a driving attribute for flood resilience feature in a basin. The flood risk is almost twice in the countries located at the receiving end as compared to the country of origin. The paper investigates the occurrence and impact of floods in the transboundary river basin by taking the case of Kosi river basin. The paper primarily uses secondary sources to develop an understanding of basin characteristics and bilateral relations of country units. Kosi river basin has three basin country units (BCU) i.e. China, Nepal and India. Out of these 3 BCU, India faces catastrophic effect of river due to its location at the downstream of the basin. For studying the causes and impact of floods occurred in Kosi river basin, only Nepal and India’s data has been collated and analysed.

The book titled ‘Sustainable Regional Development’ focuses on several regional case studies across India in light of existing sustainability challenges. Defining the ‘region’ as a planning unit based on specific spatial hierarchies and functional characteristics, the book both traces its significance for planners and development professionals in the context of case studies related to contract farming, industrialization, corridor development and heritage based development etc. in the domains of importance for regional development Jovovic et al. (2017) cite the three main aspects of regional sustainability as being economic, environmental, and social, all of which have been captured in the book.