Rethinking Urban Land Use Planning in India
24 01 2014
Dear 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
24 01 2014
Dear 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.
,
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)
24 01 2014
Dear 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
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