India-Georgia Relationship: A Window of Opportunity

India and Georgia, representing two ancient surviving civilizations in the world, are not located far away from within Asia. The two nations had deep linkages in the past; however, they mostly remained disconnected over the past few centuries for various reasons. In recent years, they are experiencing a steady rise in people-to-people engagement, especially in trade. Considering the changing global geopolitical realities and increasing avenues of Europe-Asia trade, India urgently needs to revive and rebuild its historic ties with Georgia to meet its national interests in the 21st century. Georgia could be a ‘Gateway to Europe’ for India

Factors of Participatory Urban Policy: Urban Activism through the prism of Post-materialistic Theory

Article “Factors of Participatory Urban Policy: Urban activism through the prism of Post-materialistic Theory”, through the prism of Post-materialistic theory analyses data’s of Georgia accumulated during the 5th and 6th waves of World Value Survey (WVS) and studies how materialistic values of the societies are changing and becoming post-materialistic. The main focus is on public participation in city government and especially on urban activism. As, in Georgian reality, green activism is the main form of activism, article questions either it is the reaction on numbers of ecological and urban problems that appeared in Tbilisi during last 10 years,  or still it is a sign of shifting materialistic Georgian society into the side of post-materialistic values.

How to make Rustavi Livable City

Article discusses principles of sustainable urban development and focuses on three main concepts of urban development, based on sustainable development notions: Green City, Eco City, and Livable City. At the same time, the article examines concepts of development of Rustavi suggested by the Rustavi Land use Master plan and offers the vision for transforming Rustavi into Livable City

Smart City Components in Tbilisi

Article concentrates on reasons of urbanization and problems that has been appeared in cities during the process of mass urbanization. Challenges that cities are facing are related with infrastructural, socio-economic, political, environmental issues. To deal with new reality, it became necessary to create new concepts of urban development, that will guarantee the sustainable future of the urban areas. Article underlines the importance of one of the urban concepts – “Smart City”, development, structure and components of the concept. Article also speaks about the achievements of Tbilisi according to the concept of  “Smart City”