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Disease shapes cities. Some of the most iconic developments in urban planning and management, such as London’s Metropolitan Board of Works and mid-19th century sanitation systems, developed in response to public health crises such as cholera outbreaks. Now COVID-19 is joining a long list of infectious diseases, like the Spanish flu of 1918 in  New York  and  Mexico City  or the  Ebola Virus Disease  in West Africa in 2014, likely to leave enduring marks on urban spaces. For Michele , professor of global urban politics in the School of Design at the University of Melbourne, the intersection of urban design and public health is an increasingly critical territory.  A leading center for advancing urban policy development; he’s worked on urban health in a number of capacities, including with the European Commission and the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Office.  While the University of Melbourne scrambles to  accelerate...

Evolution of Indian cities . Most of the people in history led a nomadic life—hunting animals and gathering edible plants for food. The first pre-condition for urban development is a favourable ecology climate change at the end of the Ice Age led to the receding of glaciers, people congregated in warm regions with fertile soil. The second precondition for sedentary life is the avail­ability of food at the place of settlement. To satisfy the pre-conditions of humans some research and technology is must. It was during this period that human beings learnt cultivating crops and hunting animals, new invention take place , people started making new tools and cutting rocks and wood making things from it.   Ancient Towns:  There are number of towns in India having historical background spanning over 2000 years. Most of them developed as religious and cultural centres. Varanasi is one of the important towns am...