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Contact Details:

M-409 NAB, IIM Calcutta, Diamond Harbour Road, Joka, Kolkata, 700104, India

Academics

Academic Background:

2010 Ph.D. in Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California 2003 Master of Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2001 Bachelor of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi 2001 Rank 1 in GATE (Architecture and Urban Planning)

Courses Taught:

Environment and Development (with Prof. Bhaskar Chakrabarti) Planning and Management of World Cities Society, Power and Urban Space

Awards:

2007 Attachment Program Grant from Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University to conduct doctoral fieldwork in Hong Kong for six months 2006 Gill Chin Lim travel grant to present a paper in the International Development track at the 47th ACSP annual conference 2005 Urban and Global Certificate fellowship – University of Southern California 2004 Merit scholarship for Doctoral studies - Price School, University of Southern California (4 years) 2003 Fellowship under the Network for European and US Regional and Urban Studies (NEURUS) program to spend a semester at the University of Groningen 2001 Arts fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2001 Merit scholarship for graduate studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2 years) 2001 Gold Medal for Best undergraduate planning thesis at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi 2001 Yale-UNDP certificate on Public Private Partnerships for Urban Environmental Services

Consulting Interests:

Urban Planning and Management Local Governance Public Participation

Current Projects:

Studies related to planning and urban management in various cities Urban villages in New Delhi Tourism-led urbanization in the Lahaul-Spiti region

Experience

Work Experience:

2010 - 2017 Assistant Professor at Al Hosn University, Abu Dhabi (Promoted to Associate in 2017)

Research

Journal Publications:

Chakravarty, S. (2020). Continuous production and new forms of labor: A case for reclaiming public time. Journal of Human Values, 26(1), 75-92. Chakravarty, S. and Qamhaieh, A. (2019). Planning the mirage: Lessons for planning education from Abu Dhabi. Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 3(1), 23-36. Chakravarty, S. and Chan, F.H. (2016). Imagining shared space: Multivalent murals in new ethnic “-towns” of Los Angeles. Space and Culture, 19(4), 406-20. Qamhaieh, A. and Chakravarty, S. (2016) Global cities, public transportation and social exclusion: A study of the bus system in Abu Dhabi. Mobilities, Vol 12(3), 462-78 Chakravarty, S and Irazabal, C. (2011). Golden geese or white elephants? The paradoxes of world heritage sites and community-based tourism development in Agra, India. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, 42(3), 359-76. Irazabal, C. and Chakravarty, S. (2007). Entertainment-retail centers in Hong Kong and Los Angeles: Trends and lessons. International Planning Studies, 12(3), 241-71. Chakravarty, S. (2003). Neoliberalism and vehicular pollution in New Delhi. Mainstream, XLI (10).

Conferences:

(From 2012) 2019 Making Indian cities smart: Framing incongruencies and reconciliation (co-authored) International Conference on Information Systems annual conference, Munich 2019 ‘What else?’: Community perspectives on tourism-led urbanization in Spiti, India AESOP Annual Congress, Venice 2019 Fallout of shortsighted spot zoning: Hospital parking in downtown Abu Dhabi Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Los Angeles 2019 Catapulting over complexity: A review of the smart cities mission in India Regional Studies Association Australasia Conference, Christchurch 2018 Planning the Mirage: Lessons for Planning Education from Abu Dhabi Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 32nd Annual Congress, Gothenburg 2018 Buying (into) sustainability: Technocratic Environmentalism in Abu Dhabi UP-City Conference, Hiroshima [Presented remotely by video] 2016 Tradition as Event: Imagined Pasts in Abu Dhabi’s Urban Form International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Kuwait City 2016 Globalization and changing urbanism of US cities: Diversity, cosmopolis, and the right to the city (co-authored) Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco 2015 An argument for a holistic urban planning approach to sustainability Ecocity World Summit, Abu Dhabi 2015 Between temporalities: Informalized governance of Urban Villages in Delhi Japan Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS) 28th Annual Conference, Tokyo 2015 Art as community stewardship: A new direction for planning? Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) 29th Annual Congress, Prague 2015 Public Participation as policy transfer: Need for critique and theorization National Seminar on Public Participation at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi 2014 Deconstructing in/formality in Delhi Beyond the Strawman: Post-colonial and Western urban theory. University of Ghent 2013 Labor, mobility and spatial justice in Delhi’s Annanagar squatter settlement (co-authored) 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2013 What’s Arabic for Charrette? Public participation for Bani Yas Park, Abu Dhabi (co-authored) 49th ISOCARP Congress, Brisbane 2013 Planning the Recovery: Dubai’s search for a new model (co-authored) Joint ACSP/27th AESOP Annual Congress, Dublin 2013 Strangers in a box: the bus as contested space in Abu Dhabi (co-authored) Joint ACSP/27th AESOP Annual Congress, Dublin 2013 Spatial justice and the world city fetish Realizing Global Justice: Theory and Practice, University of Tromso 2013 Housing, oligopoly and world city aspirations in Abu Dhabi (co-authored) 43rd Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco 2012 Myths of modernity and tradition: Abu Dhabi’s postmodern urbanism International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Portland 2012 Space and the parallel flows of productive time 26th AESOP Annual Congress, Ankara 2012 Colour, culture and aspiration in Abu Dhabi (co-authored) Annual conference of the Center for the Study of Communication and Culture (CECC), Lisbon

Research Interests:

Housing, Transportation, Land Use, Community Planning Tourism and Urbanization Civic Engagement Planning Theory - Informality, Diversity and Inclusion, Production of Space

Books/Book Chapters:

Chakravarty, S. and Negi, R. (Eds.) (2016). Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. Springer. Chakravarty, S. (2019). Un-cities: The urbanism of rapidly growing cities in the Gulf Region. In Banerjee, T. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (Eds.) The New Companion to Urban Design. Routledge. Chakravarty, S. (2017). Buying (into) sustainability: Technocratic environmentalism in Abu Dhabi. IN Caprotti, F. and Yu, L. (Eds.) Sustainable Cities in Asia. Routledge Chakravarty, S. (2016). Discontents of modernity: Space, consumption and loss in Hong Kong ‘new wave’ and Bombay ‘parallel cinema’ of the 1980s. IN Kolluri, S. and Lee, J. (Eds.) Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas: Palgrave-Macmillan. Chakravarty, S. (2016). Towards meaningful participation: A reform agenda for Indian conditions. IN Kumar, A. and Prakash, P. (Eds.) Public Participation in Planning in India. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Banerjee, T., Chakravarty, S. and Chan, F.H. (2016). Negotiating the identity of diaspora: Ethnoscapes of Southeast Asian communities in Los Angeles. IN Moroni, S. and Weberman, D. (Eds.) Space and Pluralism. Budapest: CEU Press. Chakravarty, S. and Negi, R. (2016). Introduction: Contested urbanism in Delhi’s interstitial spaces. IN Chakravarty, S. and Negi, R. (Eds.) Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. New Delhi: Springer. Chakravarty, S. (2016). Between informalities: Mahipalpur Village as entrepreneurial space. IN Chakravarty, S. and Negi, R. (Eds.) Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. New Delhi: Springer. Chakravarty, S. (2015). Religious structures on traffic lanes: Production of informality in New Delhi. IN Narayanan, Y. (Ed.) Religion and Urbanism: Reconceptualising Sustainable Cities for South Asia. Abingdon: Routledge. Husnein, A. and Chakravarty, S. (2015). Planning the recovery: Dubai’s search for a new model of development. IN Wagner, F., Mahayni, R.G. and Piller, A.G. (Eds.) Transforming Distressed Global Communities. Burlington: Ashgate. Chakravarty, S. and Ball, P. (2015). Beige heritage/ golden towers: Colour, culture and aspiration in UAE. IN Bogushevskaya, V. and Colla, E. (Eds.) Thinking Colours: Perception, Translation and Representation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Chakravarty, S. and Qamhaieh, A. (2014). City upgraded: Redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi. IN Lees, L., Shin, H. and Lopez-Morales, E. (Eds.) Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement, Bristol: Policy Press. Chakravarty, S and Irazabal, C. (2013). Golden geese or White elephants? The paradoxes of world heritage sites and community-based tourism development in Agra, India. IN Phillips, R. and Robers, S. (Eds.) Tourism, Planning and Community Development. New York: Routledge. (Journal article reprinted as book chapter.)