Contents: 1. Geospatial technology and applications in urban and regional planning/Y.V.N. Krishna Murthy. 2. An overview of urban development/M. Kamraju. 3. Urbanization-the future of cities: an unrealistic growth causing societal pandemic/Kanagiri SN Prasad and Mohd Akhter Ali. 4. Analysis of urban sprawl and water dynamics of Kalinganagar industrial region of Jajpur district of Odisha/S. Panigrahi, S. Giri and K. M. Sethy. 5. Spatiotemporal analysis of dog bites in Srinagar city/Muzafar Ahmad Wani, Insha Mohideen, Shamim Ahmad Shah and Tanweer Ahmad Malik. 6. Geoinformatics aided urban land bank identification and mapping - a case study of Berhampur municipal corporation of Ganjam district, Odisha state, India/Binita Tripathy, K. M. Sethy and P. Mishra. 7. A qualitative study on role of satellite cities in India/P. Manisha, Sanja Devi, M. Kamraju. 8. Coastal cities and erosion issues: a study along – the coast of Puri town, Odisha, India using remote sensing and GIS/Ms. Prachi Prava Panda, Prof. Manas Ranjan Das and Nihar Ranjan Das. 9. Impact assessment of anthropogenic stress on green spaces of Srinagar City, Jammu and Kashmir/Saleha Jamal, Wani Suhail Ahmad, Md Ashif Ali, Umar Amin Reshi and Sarfaraz Asgher. 10. Air and noise pollution status/Syeda Azeem Unnisa, Vattikoti Praveen, Akhtar Rasool and Bharath Raj. 11. Climate change and its impact on water- comparative study/Ms. Shakuntala Pratihary and Prof Kabir Mohan Sethy. 12. Transformation of transboundary River Padma (Ganges)/Shaik Riyaz Basha and B. Laxamiah. 13. Developmental planning for the slums in Srinagar city/Sameer Fayaz, G. M. Rather and M. Sultan Bhat.