Mohammed Firoz

National Institute of Technology Calicut | NITC · Department of Architecture and Planning

Urbanization is taking place faster, and urban air temperatures are gradually rising in all cities across the world. Uncontrolled and unplanned urbanization leads to constant environmental threats and can alter local and regional climates. According to the survey published by Economist Intelligence Unit, in India, Kerala's Malappuram district ranks...

Along with the sixth anniversary of the Paris Agreement on global climate change, a promising movement for carbon neutrality is taking form with the country’s enormous efforts to realize its objectives. India is a significant emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), generating 2.46 billion tons (6.8%) of carbon. The country needs to adopt a bottom-up app...

Purpose Rapid urbanization and development of pilgrimage cities cause significant problems for the environment and society, leading to long-term challenges. Despite several discussions on city sustainability, the literature does not address some of the specific problems of pilgrimage cities. Hence, this study attempts at developing a method to exam...

This paper attempted to develop a methodological framework for capturing regional disparities in social development by adopting the methods suggested by McMeekin et al. (2020). A set of six conditions and their adjoining cases were developed that determined the methodology. A new methodological framework was formulated as an interconnected network...

“Regional inequalities or disparities are a worldwide phenomenon” (Tirthankar Basu 2020) existing in developing and developed countries. The study deals with evaluating the levels of socio-economic developments at a macro level using district-level data and proposes a spatial assessment framework. For the same, India’s centrally located state Madhy...

Kerala State in India has a unique Rural-Urban Continuum (RUC) settlement pattern where it is difficult to distinguish between urban from rural. However, like all the Indian States, the RUC settlements of Kerala are also divided into rural and urban, and this dichotomous classification forms the basis of spatial planning, governance, and management...

Regional disparities are prevalent in almost all nations globally irrespective of whether being developed, developing, or under-developed. With the recent shift of focus towards human development, the presence of inequalities in social development is one of the major issues faced by developing nations and hence becomes the underlying theme of this...

Landscape metrics have been gaining popularity in urban and regional planning since the early 2000s. Primarily used to assess landscapes’ ecological composition and configuration, the field has expanded to include studies on the environment, land use studies, ecosystem services, spatiotemporal changes in land uses, perception studies, and peri-urba...

The outcome of a conventional planning process is often a spatial plan which integrates the physical and fiscal development proposals prepared based on an administrative boundary that is entirely arbitrary. Due to its obvious demerits, this study therefore attempts to establish the significance of the ecological boundary-based planning approach whi...

Cite this entry as: Ritesh R., Mohammed F.C. (2021) Green Cities. In: Brears R. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_258-1

The land use and land cover is changing in different parts of the world, the root cause of which is the increasing urbanization rate. The peri-urban areas are transforming due to this pressure, leading to urban expansion and resulting in major changes in land use along the highway. Such peri-urban areas are largely neglected in policy and practice...

The development of mega regions in different parts of the world has opened up possibilities of better economic investments, infrastructure facilities and job opportunities. In India, though there are series of mega regions evolving, the most prominent one is the emerging mega region particularly along the coastal belt of the Kerala state. The captu...

Smart-Global-Economic-Community (SGEC) is the basic module of planning megacities. It connects the local economy to the global economy. The design of the SGEC-Kattangal which is a part of the Kochi-Kannur megacity study is discussed in the present chapter. Significant concerns about the community are unplanned urban growth, exclusion and rising ine...

Smart Global Community (SGC) is an innovative concept of community development involving economy generation within a community using appropriate smart technologies. The location of SGCs is ideal within the vicinities of various institutes, which can impart technological support for the betterment of the neighborhood, thereby elevating their economi...

The increasing urbanisation trend over the decades has resulted in the rapid transformation of land use and land cover (LULC) patterns worldwide. One of the significant consequences of such an uncontrolled conversion process is on the environmental quality (EQ) of the regions, which needs to be addressed. Hence, the present study attempts to derive...

Rapid urbanization has resulted in sudden degradation of the environmental quality of urban settlements, which are difficult to measure and quantify. The present study attempts to provide an assessment of the environmental quality by developing environmental quality index (EQI) for the Ernakulam district in Kerala, India. The index values are spati...

Smart Water is an essential component of the smart environment since life, sustenance, growth and death of the environment depends on water. The concept of smart water is derived from the concept of smart cities having one to one relationship in their building blocks. Smart Water Management is a very high responsive, intelligent digital system oper...

Historically, Kozhikode was a port city and a global trading hub connecting Europe and South Asia. The subsequent political and social fabric prevalent during the post—independence period resulted in the city losing its erstwhile economic significance. Industrial and economic activity is now limited to few medium and small scale industries that are...

Calicut City had a glorious history dating back to twelfth century with a vibrant trade base due to an established trade route connecting Europe and the South Asia thus making it once an internationally acclaimed city. Thus, the city was ruled by many rulers across the globe until India’s independence. Of late, the city lost its global stature due...

The economy is the heart of any Smart City. As the world progresses to third industrial revolution, the economy focus is expected to shift from large-scale production industries to industries with cultural and ethnic uniqueness. Urban form of a city is its biggest brand image of its culture. A Smart City needs to maintain its urban form to highligh...