Urban and Regional Planning Education (PDF)

Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning students
at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi since the last 23 years
after finishing his doctorate from the University of Liverpool, U.K. Widely
known for his expertise in spatial justice, capabilities and planning, and
collaborative planning theory, Prof. Kumar has published nearly 100 papers in
national and international journals, authored, edited, and co-edited 10 books,
and contributed over 20 book chapters. Currently he is Editor of the ITPI
Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India. Previously he has been Editor
of SPACE: The SPA Journal of Planning and Architecture published by SPA New
Delhi.


Formerly
Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Organization, New Delhi for more than
12 years, Dr. D.S. Meshram has greatly influenced the planning profession in
India since the last four decades. Currently Dr. Meshram is the President of
the Institute of Town Planners, India. Prior to this Dr. Meshram has held the
position of Chairman of the All India Board of Town and Country Planning
Education of AICTE for nine years when he got prepared the model curricula both
for undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more than two years
Dr. Meshram was appointed Advisor (Urban Development) to Government of Uttarakhand.


Krishne Gowda is the Director at the University School of Design, University of
Mysore, Karnataka since December 2014. Before this Prof. Gowda held the
position of Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore
for nearly six years. He has been working as a Professor of Urban and Regional
Planning at the University for over 12 years. So far he has supervised 16
doctoral students. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers in
journals, and also authored and co-authored 8 book chapters. He is a great
organizer of academic events.