Vikas Chand Sharma is an architect and academic with 13 years of experience in architectural and urban design, research, and teaching. Currently an Associate Professor at Chandigarh University, and a research scholar in Architecture at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, he specializes in developing sustainable urban design strategies for historic cities. He is also a Scientific Committee Member of Contesti. Città, Territori, Progetti (Journal of Regional and Urban Planning, Architecture Department, University of Florence). His foundational research established critical connections between religious spatial patterns and new urbanist principles (Springer Nature, 2016). Vikas has published in the Journal of Architecture & Urbanism (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University) and Landscape Research (Taylor & Francis), where his recent work advances visual analytical methodologies for historic urban environments. His research combines phenomenological approaches with digital mapping techniques to address urban challenges, offering implementable frameworks for resilient, inclusive, and culturally responsive urban development. Dr.

Sandeep Dua is a Professor in the Department of Architecture at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He holds a PG Diploma in Urban Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and a PhD in Architecture from IIT Roorkee. His research interests encompass mathematics in architecture and urban form, history and theory of architecture and urban design. With a 30-year experience, Dr. Dua has published extensively on topics such as medieval domestic architecture, colonial and post-colonial architectural styles, and urban form and architecture. He has also undertaken research project funded by AICTE, New Delhi. Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tyagi is an accomplished academician, researcher, and consultant.

He is presently working as a professor at Chandigarh University, Mohali, India. He is an alumnus of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (Central University) and Kurukshetra University, India. He has more than 22 years of experience in the industry, teaching, training, consultancy, and expertise in destination management, travel process and disruptive technologies. He has published over 40 research papers in international journals indexed in the quality database and authored/edited 20 books. He is a reviewer for many international journals in tourism, management, and technology. Dr. Elena Tarsi is an architect and has done Ph.D.

in urban territorial and environmental planning. She is currently a researcher at the Department of Architecture of University of Florence where she is the coordinator of LabPSM--Laboratory City and territory in the Global South. She is also "collaborator researcher" at the Centre for Social Studies of University of Coimbra. Her research interests focus on informal settlements dynamics both in the Global South and the Global North. Recently, she has dealt with the impacts of climate change in cities and the role of cities and territories in the European Green Deal policies.