Sri Lanka is an agricultural country, more than 75 % of the population is engaged in agriculture related activities. In the year 2001 the country will need 37 % additional rice than in 1981. In order to achieve this target ...

Energy is of strategic value for the maintainance of life itself in settlements - both urban and rural. Presently, Sri Lanka is heavily rsT'.nt on Electricity, Petrol urn , and Woodfuel for the various acljvitiss requiring ...

Urban development in Sri Lanka has begun to draw tho attention of researchers, practitioners* and even the politicians, due to the inherent advantages it has provided by way of solutions to some of the most pressing ...

The Technical Annexure submitted along with the dissertation titled "The need for a redefinition of Colombo Metropolitan Area as a planning entity for integrated planning and development" is used to analyze the past ...

Sri Lanka's interest in land settlement as a development strategy started during the early decades of the 20th century. Among the objectives of establishing such settlements were; 1 Achieving self sufficiency in food ...

The aim of this dissertation is to examine the possibilities to identify lands for urban development in order to mitigate the land scarcity problem in the Greater Colombo Economic Commission (GCEC) area . In this connection ...

In the Cri Lankan context urban areas the size of population as large medium and small towns, cluster of cities around it forms a conurbation where there are fourteen towns mofueling Colombo. Though attempts were made ...

This study deals with some planning implications of the industrial areas in the Colombo Metropolitan Region. The main objective of Chapter 1 is to define the problem of the study. It was obvious that 83% of the total ...