Lalit Bhati town planner and former member of Auroville's planning and development group introduces into the challenges and experiments of planning in Auroville. What is remarkable about Auroville is,...

Suhasini Ayer-Guigan presented at the Auroville Green Practices Seminar 2010 on Sustainable Human Habitat. She presents the current conventional methodology of construction and development in todays ...

Only when we fully understand the landscape, will we be able to plan or design with minimum damage/alterations to the landscape. º    º    º    º    º    º    

For any regional planning it is important to understand the landscape and the natural forces that are shaping it and water is one of the most important natural force. Base data, especially topography ...

GIS technology integrates common database operations such as query and statistical analysis with the unique visualization and geographic analysis benefits offered by maps. These abilities distinguish ...

An eco-city in the making has to look at and integrate a number of key aspects of a sustainable development. Such key aspects are: environmental restoration, organic agriculture, solar passive archite...