The safety of engineering structures requires periodic inspection. Assessing the condition of the structure and its behavior cannot be done without a regular and frequent monitoring by establishing a network of geometric auscultation. The contribution of an analytical tool in the management of this network is the purpose of this work…

Covid 19 pandemic has caused massive destruction of the economy, livelihoods and reverse migration of the labour. It has underlined the need to adopt digital order, online communication and health as the focus of urban development

With the world grappled in Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic with over 5.5 million cases as of May 26, 2020…

The phenomenon of living structure implies that the real world is a living world, to which we human beings belong. This section further discusses the I-hypothesis, the new cosmology, and how to make better sense of living structure in our inner world.

“All of my life I’ve spent trying to learn how to produce living structure in the world. That means towns, streets, buildings, rooms, gardens, places which are themselves living or alive…

We can treat Agricultural Land Consolidation as a merging, enlargement, eliminating of mosaic land ownership and improvement…

In light of the emergence of big data, I have advocated and argued for a paradigm shift from Tobler’s law to scaling law, from Euclidean geometry to fractal geometry…

Urban forests refer to the sum of all urban trees, shrubs and lawns and pervious soils in urban areas (Escobedo et al., 2011). Unlike trees growing in natural forests…

The 110 year old transition from 10.8% (in 1901) to 31.2% urban (in 2011) depicts India as an inarguably rural nation (Buch, 2015). Urban settlements in India are islands dispersed in a loosely knit ocean of rurality. We are no strangers to the problems that arise due to lack…

Man always has been in progressive search for a platform, scenario and technologies to make reasonable and rational comparisons of the real Earth with a virtual Earth. During this quest, a lot of technologies have been deployed…