The tourism hotspot of Matsuyama in southern Japan has forged a reputation as an early adopter of optical capabilities in local industry and town planning, earning it the designation IT Business Model District by the central government.
Located in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Matsuyama City is the nucleus municipality in the prefecture with a population of some 513,000. The metropolitan area is highly accessible as it takes only about ten minutes from the airport and harbors to more...
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This webpage offers a number of short pdf documents for free download. For example, document gta-008 describes the long pedestrian and cycle bridge over the river Rhine between France and Germany.
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Buddham Bai is one of the 78 million people in India who have no place to call home. In Delhi, the Development Authority (DDA) admits that at least 1 per cent of the population is homeless like Budham Bai. This means that in this city alone, no fewer than 140,000 people live on the streets.
Ashray Adhikar Abhiyan, an NGO working on issues related to homelessness and the rights (particularly shelter) of the urban poor, estimates that at least 7-10 percent of the capital's homeless are women. Bud more...
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Under Indian laws, homeless beggars are treated as criminals and booked under various beggary laws. The Bombay Beggary Prevention (1959) Act defines beggars as anyone soliciting alms and who have 'no visible means of subsistence', including those who sell small articles at traffic lights and other public places. When penalised, beggars or homeless persons have to face hearings at a special court and may be sent to an institution, or can bail themselves out by paying money.
In Delhi, the homel more...
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Though the homeless exist in large numbers, society tries to render them invisible, says a recent study on homelessness in four Indian cities. Arpan Tulsyan reports on the findings,
04 June 2008. If Census 2001 figures are anything to go by, India has about two million homeless people. But that number in itself is under-reported, given the lacunae in enumeration procedures. Surveys by various non-government agencies and even certain autonomous branches of government bodies reveal that this f more...
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Africa 2009 was launched in 1998, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. This programme is a partnership of African cultural heritage organisations, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and CRATerre-EAG and was developped
as a response to the survey and needs assessment carried out in 1996. Its objective is to increase the capacity of national institutions to better manage and conserve immovable heritage places in sub-Saharan
Africa by 2009.
Africa being the cradle of humankind
possesses a wealt more...
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Cave dwellers, far from being Neanderthals, may be the smartest beings on earth. Life protected from the elements by caves has persisted as a form of human existence for millennia, and goes on to this day in places such as Turkey, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Morocco, Italy, and France. In southern Spain, however, cave homes are man made, and not natural formations that humans simply moved into. Some of the very earliest names for the city of Granada refer to its cave dwellings. In nearby Benalua, a su more...
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