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City Form for India: Sustainable Urban Form for Indian Cities

• About the Project

• Major Objectives

• Project Funding

• Core Team Members 

• Project Meetings

• City Form Newsletter

• City Form Report

About the Project

NIUA is partnering with Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) Ahmedabad, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Delhi, IIT Delhi and network of stakeholders for this research project.

Major Objectives  

The objectives of this proposed project are as follows: 

• Identify gaps in knowledge relating to sustainable urban form in India cities; 

• Identify gaps in policy and practice relating to sustainable urban form in Indian cities; 

• Examine how policy is interpreted and implemented at the local level; 

• Investigate how urban form performs in terms of sustainability. 

Faridabad and Rajkot have been selected for pilot study.

Project Funding

• Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India

• UK- India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI), British Council

Team Members working on the project at NIUA  

• Prof. Chetan Vaidya

• Ms. Satmohini Srivastava Ray

• Ms. Arpita Dayal

• Ms. Shruti Behera

Project Meetings/activities

• City Form India: Peer Review Meeting, 16 February 2010

• Presentation on Climate Change and Sustainable Cities in 'Globe 2009' 1 December 2009

• Participation in the 5th  Conference on CMS Vatavaran 2009, 29 October 2009

• Meeting at Rajkot and Ahmedabad, 7-8 August 2009

• Visit to U.K., July 2009

• Framework Meeting at Delhi, 26-27 May 2009

• Conference: City Form-India: Sustainable Urban Form for Indian Cities, 21 August 2008

Project Report

• Final Report Submitted to Ministry of Urban Development, GOI (March 2011)

• Download Summary Report

• For complete report please contact sray@niua.org 

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