Category Archives: Urban Studies

Trends and Patterns of Global Urbanisation: Distinction Between Two Terms and an Overview

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

A trend is a change or development towards something new or different. A pattern is the repeated or regular way in which something happens or is done.It is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface. Global Trends of Urbanisation … Continue reading →

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Why Cities Grow So Fast?

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

Urbanism is the new way of life. Our world is turning into a big urban realm. The first urban settlements are thought to have started around 3500 BC in lower Mesopotamia around the Tigris and Euphrates. First was Ur, which from 2300 BC … Continue reading →

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What our Future City will be like : A Visualisation by Shahjahan

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

The city of the future is highly interconnected smart environment where people, government and business operate in symbiosis with spectacular improving technologies such as big data. The internet of things, artificial intelligence, robots, drones, autonomous green vehicles, 3D/4D printing, … Continue reading →

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City Trio Vision by Ghazia Musarrat Ashna

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Rashid Faridi

Defining the City Trio “The Techno Turf” This is the main city, full of technologies, facilities, available institutions, congestion, and population that is the main and the most important elements of the time. “The Aqueous Niche” This is … Continue reading →