[Urbanstudy] CPR CSH Workshop on 31 May by Sanjeev Vidyarthi

[Shahana Sheikh]

Dear All,

As part of our Urban Workshop Series, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi, are delighted to invite you
to a Workshop on* From the Local to Regional: Who is Planning Urban India
and How?* by* Sanjeev Vidyarthi*, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and
Policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago


Date:               Tuesday, 31st May 2016

Time:               3.45 p.m.

Venue:             Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma
Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021

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Who is making the plans shaping fast-growing Indian cities and their
metropolitan regions? The presentation, which shares preliminary findings
of this research, is organized in two parts. The first part describes the
changing perception of spatial plans within the planning discipline. Plans,
for example, are no longer seen as precise and predictive in character but
incremental and provisional by nature. There is a growing recognition that
a diverse range of actors (homeowners, squatters, developers, politicians
etc.) make different kinds of plans (informal, tacit, spontaneous,
incremental and more) as they anticipate and prepare for an uncertain
future in an increasingly urbanized world. The second part of presentation
will then illustrate the wide variety of existing and emergent urban actors
and their plans that are beginning to shape Indian urban regions in
unprecedented ways.


*Sanjeev Vidyarthi* is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy
at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Trained as an architect, urban
designer and spatial planner, Sanjeev studies ideas and actions in the
domain of human settlements focusing upon the meanings and purposes of
planning for places. His research interests span the fields of planning
theory and history and globalization and development studies, and his
current research explores who does (and should do) the planning work.
Exploring planning efforts in a wide variety of urban settings, Sanjeev has
lived, worked and studied in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the
United States over the past couple decades, while maintaining a strong
research agenda around the spatial planning and development
of post-independence India.


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This is the seventy sixth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the
Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research
(CPR). These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating
to the development of the city and try to address all its facets including
its administration, culture, economy, society and politics. For further
information, please contact: Christine Ithurbide at
<christine at csh-delhi.com>
<christine at csh-delhi.com>christine at csh-delhi.com, Partha
Mukhopadhyay at * <partha at cprindia.org>
<partha at cprindia.org>partha at cprindia.org <partha at cprindia.org>* or
Marie-Hélène Zerah at * <marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr>
<marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr>marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr
<marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr>*


We look forward to welcoming you to CPR for what promises to be an
interesting discussion. Please feel free to share this invitation with
friends and colleagues who may be interested

Best regards,
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