Rethinking Urban Land Use Planning in India
24012014Dear Friend:
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 Rethinking Urban Land Use Planning in India by Vaidehi Tandel of Department of Economics, University of Mumbai.
Date: Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Time: 3.45 p.m.
Venue: Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021
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Planning in Indian cities is under pressure to adapt to the dynamic urban condition but is constrained by the technical and bureaucratic process of master/development plan making. As a result, plans are neither able to adequately meet infrastructure requirements nor address the increasing informalization of shelter and livelihoods in cities. Why don’t Indian cities look like their spatial plans? How does planning respond to informal development? What should be the nature of planning in Indian cities? These are the key questions explored. To illustrate the divergence between spatial plans and actual land use, an empirical study of land use in a suburban area in Mumbai is undertaken and the reasons for this divergence are discussed. We find that master/development plans based on technical principles with micro level detailing are unable to foresee and&n bsp; adapt to the economic dynamics and spatial restructuring in Mumbai and are partly undermined by “occupancy urbanism” (Benjamin 2008). Finally, we articulate a re-thinking of urban planning in India so that plans are better able to reflect the requirements and needs of the citizens. The presentation is based on a co-authored paper by Vaidehi Tandel along with Abhay Pethe, Ramakrishna Nallathiga, and Sahil Gandhi.
Vaidehi Tandel is currently a doctoral student at the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the political economy issues in the governance of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. She has published co-authored papers in peer reviewed journals and has co-authored a chapter in a forthcoming book. She also has worked on projects commissioned by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, World Bank, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Her research interests lie in the areas of New Institutional Economics, Urban Economics, Urban Studies, and Political Economy. She can be reached on vaidehi.tandel@gmail.com.
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Spanish artist Omar Arraez
24012014Dear friends,
It would be a great pleasure if you will join us on this especial event we have programmed, in which the huge paper portraits of Indian and Nepali women and men
Hoping to see you then, warmest regards.
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drawed by the Spanish artist Omar Arraez,
will become the human landscape for a theatre performance based on the Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels.Hoping to see you then, warmest regards.
Jesús Clavero-Rodríguez
Instituto Cervantes
Cultural Manager
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Concert by Hungarian Virág Kiss (piano) and Sándor Dezső (cello)
24012014Dear Friends,I am happy to inform you that the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre, in cooperation with Delhi Music Society and India International Centre, presents a concert by noted Hungarian musicians Virág Kiss (piano) and Sándor Dezső (cello) at the India International Centre on Monday, 27th January 2014 at 6.30 p.m.
Please see the attached invitation.
All are welcome!
With best regards,
Hungarian Centre –
Johanna Balchandani
Senior Cultural Adviser
Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre
1-A Janpath, New Delhi – 110 011