The Open Cities Project launched its efforts in three cities: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Kathmandu, Nepal. South Asia is one of the most rapidly urbanizing regions in the world. A ...

Click on any city on the map and start your trip around fifteen of China's ... CE), the network of trade routes now called the Silk Roads linked Xi’an to South and Central Asia as well as Europe. With ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the ...

South Asia faces a choice: Continue on the same path or undertake difficult and appropriate reforms to improve the region’s trajectory of development. It won’t be easy but such actions are essential ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from ... which are aligned north-south and form an astronomical observatory, the first ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.In a ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood.

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

This report is the outcome of a research project on the urbanisation-construction-migration nexus in five cities in South Asia (UCMn SA): Kabul (Afghanistan), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Chennai (India), ...

5, Issue. 11, p. 197. South Asia is urbanising at a rapid pace and the problems arising due to urbanisation are serious indeed. The mega cities are the engines of economic growth; but, at the same ...

The Beacon spoke with Dominik Dobesberger, Aruzhan Mukhanova, Nmachukwu Ukaegbu, Anna Singley, Ainara Luque-Garcia, Meng ...