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After the successful completion of the relief works, HMG initiated the rehabilitation and reconstruction works from September 22, 1988. A high power quake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Committee was constituted under the Chair of Hon. Minister for Housing an Physical Planning. The main objective of the Rehabilitation Plan is to reconstruct government buildings and public infrastructure…

UKP_SriLanka Presentation of Nepal Country Report made by Dr. Jibgar Joshi at the Urban Knowledge Platform organized by the World Bank in 2012 at Colombo,

Urban Planning for Safer Cities Presentaion made by Dr. Jibgar Joshi in a training cum workshop program held in Kathmandu in 2007

Ecosystems are resilient and robust by nature. They have ability to adapt to any natural changes. They are not vulnerable to climate change. Whenever balance is at stake, what we call a natural calamity occurs to restore it. Most of human actions are factors unknown to nature. Due to our own deeds, we have become…

URBANIZATION POLICY AND RESEARCH AGENDA FOR VIETNAM JIBGAR JOSHI This report is prepared to make the inevitable urban transition in Vietnam a good one unlike in other places. It is intended to raise issues that need to be dealt with to shape urbanization in Vietnam in a way that its socio-economic vision and environmental goals…

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Regulatory framework

For its own convenience, the government has made provisions several times for the regional administration. However, they were never considered as a part of the constitutional process. There is a distinct role of the State to be carried out at the regional level. A federal system will legitimize that role constitutionally. This is the most…

During the ninteen eighties, Turner’s seminal work “Freedom to Build” has influenced housing policy of most of the Third World countries and developed the concept of social housing where use value instead of exchange value of houses is predominant. (Turner 1976) Housing is more than a finished product. It is a process that guides an activity…

Another big earthquake on May 12 after 18 days from the first one made us rethink again. Most of our assumptions and our knowledge-based approaches are once again challenged. The management of shared open space and their utilization for providing housing related services became more critical in the overall provision of urban services during and…