Agrawal
Biographic Data
| ID | 21660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agrawal |
| FAMILY NAME | Agrawal |
| SIGNATURE | AGRAWAL |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5147-6445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Public Housing in Postwar Colombo’s Urban Regeneration: Pathology of Housing Discourse
This paper examines the Colombo Urban Regeneration Project (URP) as a state-driven initiative aimed at transforming Colombo into a “world-class” urban center in postwar Sri Lanka. Drawing on qualitative interviews with relocated families, the study examines how militarized governance and speculative urban planning have shaped the lived experiences of residents resettled in URP’s public housing. Using the concept of housing pathology, the paper in…
Temporarily housing the homeless in Northern Indigenous communities: A case of the Tłı̨chǫ region
Commissioned by the Tłı̨chǫ Government in the Northwest Territories (NWT), this study proposes a model for delivering temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness in remote Indigenous communities in Canada. Drawing on a literature review, interviews with government officials and frontline service providers, and site visits across the NWT, it outlines approaches grounded in regional realities. Inspired by Inuvik’s housing approach, the s…
Evaluating mandated intermunicipal collaboration in Alberta, Canada, through the lens of Institutional Collective Action
Alberta’s mandatory Intermunicipal Collaboration Frameworks (ICFs) are agreements meant to help plan, deliver, and fund intermunicipal services. This study, using an Institutional Collective Action lens, assesses their effectiveness. We find that ICFs can foster trust and reduce defection risk, but collaboration remains uneven across service agreements, principles, and joint committees. Key challenges include unsatisfactory resolutions via arbitr…
The state of hazard risk communication in Canada: A municipal perspective
Effective disaster risk communication remains a key challenge for Canadian municipalities striving for resilience and risk reduction. This paper examines eight case studies across five provinces to explore local risk communication strategies and framings. It identifies three main approaches: place-based, community-based, and privately driven. Risk is predominantly framed in biophysical and objective terms, though larger municipalities are adoptin…
Military-assisted postwar public housing in Sri Lanka: A scoping review
Vulnerability portrayals across climate risk discourses in Bhubaneswar: An evolutionary perspective
Climate governance studies suggest that the way climate risk and vulnerability are conceptualized, defined, and managed has consequences for people and places. In this paper, we analyze how different climate risk discourses and their vulnerability portrayals are constructed and have evolved in Bhubaneswar city in India. We conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis of various climate action plans and policy documents, as well as a thematic analysis of…
Housing and Homelessness in Indigenous Communities of Canada’s North
A disproportionate number of Indigenous people are homeless in Canada—a situation that is particularly grave in Canada’s North. This study assesses the extent of the current housing and homelessness problem and identifies contributing factors in the Tłıchǫ region of the Northwest Territories (NWT). It concludes that the housing and homelessness issue is severe, with one of the four communities in the region—Behchokǫ̀—being the site with the most …
Household energy-related carbon footprint in residential neighbourhoods in high-latitude cities: A case of Edmonton in Canada
Rights and planning: Challenges, progress, and approaches
For this special edition of Planning Practice and Research, we invited scholars and practitioners to contribute their works documenting and/or alleviating planning problems that concern the widespr
Human rights and municipal land use bylaws in Atlantic Canada
Human rights are inalienable rights we each possess by virtue of being human. The Atlantic provinces in Canada are the least studied with respect to understanding how much their cities and towns fulfill constitutional and quasi-constitutional human rights obligations in their land use bylaws. This paper aims to answer this question: what are the critical human rights challenges confronting zoning bylaws of Atlantic Canadian cities? Using a mixed …
Urban planning and group and collective rights in Québec, Canada
Group and collective rights are human rights, but such rights emerge when the members of a group are discriminated against in order to protect the group temporarily or in perpetuity, depending on how long the discrimination lasts. Studies investigating urban issues from the lens of a group right or collective right are almost non-existent. Using Kymlicka’s rights framework and relying on empirical work in the French-speaking Quebec province in Ca…
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada
Canada occupies a leadership role in resettling refugees as part of the United Nation's durable solutions to the global refugee crisis. Although resettlement is an important demonstration of international solidarity, it also poses many challenges for policymakers in terms of optimizing integration and settlement outcomes for refugees. Under the Canadian Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP), government officials are responsible for choosing the c…
Exploring spatiotemporal changes of the urban heat Island effect in high-latitude cities at a neighbourhood level: A case of Edmonton, Canada
Urban heat exposures have increased considerably in cities around the globe due to rapid urbanization and the changing climate. This study explores the spatiotemporal variations in surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) across multiple seasons as well as the relationship between neighbourhood-level SUHI intensity and three major factors—land surface, anthropogenic heat, and population characteristics—in a high-latitude city. The study focuses on the …
Spatiotemporal Land Use Changes in Remote Rural Regions of India Between 2000 and 2020
This study tracks the spatiotemporal changes in high-population growth and high-density rural regions of India, also called ‘urural’. The urural areas are remote, high-density rural areas far from zones of urban influence. Deriving the land use and land cover changes from the Global Land Cover and Land Use Change dataset and analysing them in the most populated and dense districts, the study confirms the hypothesis that land uses are continuously…
Human rights and the city: A case of Ontario, Canada
Human rights are inalienable rights we each possess by virtue of being human. In Canada, Ontario has been at the forefront of progressive human rights policies. Despite this, human rights complaints related to land use regulations have been on the rise. This study pursues three questions: Why are human rights challenges against land-use regulations increasing? What human rights challenges do Ontario municipalities face? and how do they respond? W…
Assessing inequity in zoning bylaw: A case of Edmonton, Canada
Equity is a key concern for municipalities, yet current planning scholarship lacks clear, pragmatic guidance on how to identify inequity in municipal zoning bylaws. Although controversial, zoning is the primary legal tool to regulate land and its use. This study examines aspects of the current City of Edmonton zoning bylaw that are most inequitable by closely following the city’s ongoing Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiative. Applying but also expandin…
Understanding risk communication in practice: Insights from municipalities in Alberta, Canada
Risk communication is emerging as an important risk-reduction and resilience-building strategy to deal with future risks to communities. However, the linkages between municipalities’ risk communication approaches and existing development priorities remain underexplored. The paper examines ways in which risk communication is practised at the municipal level in the Canadian context, using five municipalities of varying sizes in the province of Albe…
Something old, something new, something green: Community leagues and neighbourhood energy transitions in Edmonton, Canada
Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada
Annexation is the most common form of municipal boundary adjustment in Canada, yet a systematic analysis of annexations is missing from the academic literature. This begs two key questions: Why do Canadian municipalities annex land? What are the land use outcomes of annexation? This qualitative and quantitative case study of Alberta, a Canadian prairie province, reveals that trends in annexation activity, motivations, and land use outcomes are br…
Human Rights and the City: A View From Canada
In planning matters, human rights challenges are increasing, so planning scholars and practitioners must understand the issues and find ways to address them. In this Viewpoint I argue that the Canadian state, through constitutional and quasi-constitutional protections as well as its active judiciary, has strengthened the rights of Canadians to tackle issues at the city level. Nonetheless, the pursuit of these rights is ongoing, especially regardi…
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: Insights from Edmonton, Canada
Cities are important partners in developing solutions towards a low-carbon pathway. However, given the variation in geography, a need exists to study urban energy transitions through a nuanced approach that addresses space- and place-based factors. Based on document analysis and interviews with municipal employees and local energy experts in Edmonton, Canada, we explore how location and availability of energy sources, political territoriality, ph…
Does Community Size Matter in the Settlement Process? The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada
Affordable Housing for Emiratis in the United Arab Emirates: The Case Study of Ras Al Khaimah
Adequate and affordable housing is a basic human need, and in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation composed of seven emirates, housing is treated as a constitutional right of every Emirati national. Using interviews with municipal and housing officials and a survey of the housing beneficiaries, the study evaluates the efficacy of the two national housing programs in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah that provide subsidies for affordable homeo…
Salute to Reviewers 2017–2018/ Hommage aux évaluateurs de 2017–2018
Diagnostic utilisation of ground based imaging and non-imaging sensors for digital documentation of heritage sites
Evolution of Ethnic Enclaves in the Toronto Metropolitan Area, 2001–2006
Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Programs: Experience of Syrian Refugees in Alberta, Canada
Immigrants and homelessness—at risk in Canada's outer suburbs
Homelessness is a risk for growing numbers of immigrants. Largely as a result of low incomes, newcomers are more likely than the Canadian‐born to spend over 50 percent of total household income on housing costs. Many newcomers suffer ‘hidden homelessness’. They do not use shelters and other services, but share accommodation, couch‐surf and rely on their social contacts for temporary and precarious housing. The adverse impact of low incomes on the…
Does Community Size Matter in the Settlement Process? The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada
Twice Migrants in Canada: Who Are They and How Do They Perform Economically
Does Proximity Matter in Promoting Interfaith Dialogue
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: Insights from Edmonton, Canada
Cities are important partners in developing solutions towards a low-carbon pathway. However, given the variation in geography, a need exists to study urban energy transitions through a nuanced approach that addresses space- and place-based factors. Based on document analysis and interviews with municipal employees and local energy experts in Edmonton, Canada, we explore how location and availability of energy sources, political territoriality, ph…
Ethnic Spatial Segmentation in Immigrant Destinations-Edmonton and Calgary
Making the Match: Understanding the Destining Process of Government-Assisted Refugees in Canada
Canada occupies a leadership role in resettling refugees as part of the United Nation's durable solutions to the global refugee crisis. Although resettlement is an important demonstration of international solidarity, it also poses many challenges for policymakers in terms of optimizing integration and settlement outcomes for refugees. Under the Canadian Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP), government officials are responsible for choosing the c…
Something old, something new, something green: Community leagues and neighbourhood energy transitions in Edmonton, Canada
Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada
Annexation is the most common form of municipal boundary adjustment in Canada, yet a systematic analysis of annexations is missing from the academic literature. This begs two key questions: Why do Canadian municipalities annex land? What are the land use outcomes of annexation? This qualitative and quantitative case study of Alberta, a Canadian prairie province, reveals that trends in annexation activity, motivations, and land use outcomes are br…
Diagnostic utilisation of ground based imaging and non-imaging sensors for digital documentation of heritage sites
Faith-based Ethnic Residential Communities and Neighbourliness in Canada
Faith-based ethnic neighbourhoods are growing rapidly across the Greater Toronto Area and other metropolitan areas of Canada. These residential communities are a type of enclave that develops aroun...
Immigrants and homelessness—at risk in Canada's outer suburbs
Homelessness is a risk for growing numbers of immigrants. Largely as a result of low incomes, newcomers are more likely than the Canadian‐born to spend over 50 percent of total household income on housing costs. Many newcomers suffer ‘hidden homelessness’. They do not use shelters and other services, but share accommodation, couch‐surf and rely on their social contacts for temporary and precarious housing. The adverse impact of low incomes on the…
High‐income Indian immigrants in Canada
The paper develops a socio‐economic profile of the Indo‐Canadian diaspora, arguably one of the largest Indian diaspora in the world and the second largest immigrant group in Canada, by analyzing landing records, tax data, and census and micro data files. The study suggests that Indian immigrants in Canada can be viewed as forming two broad streams: those who achieve incremental upward mobility with time in the country; and, those who do not exper…
Design review in a post-colonial city: The Delhi Urban Art Commission
Evolution of Ethnic Enclaves in the Toronto Metropolitan Area, 2001–2006
Economic disparities among South Asian immigrants in Canada
This paper outlines the economic experiences of four South Asian ethno-cultural subgroups – Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans – which, together, form the largest visible minority group in Canada. The economic performance of the South Asian subgroups is compared using customized tables from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Administrative Database. The paper argues that all four subgroups, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, in particular–…
Does Proximity Matter in Promoting Interfaith Dialogue
Twice Migrants in Canada: Who Are They and How Do They Perform Economically
Salute to Reviewers 2017–2018/ Hommage aux évaluateurs de 2017–2018
Diagnostic utilisation of ground based imaging and non-imaging sensors for digital documentation of heritage sites
Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Programs: Experience of Syrian Refugees in Alberta, Canada
Ethnic Spatial Segmentation in Immigrant Destinations-Edmonton and Calgary
Affordable Housing for Emiratis in the United Arab Emirates: The Case Study of Ras Al Khaimah
Adequate and affordable housing is a basic human need, and in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a federation composed of seven emirates, housing is treated as a constitutional right of every Emirati national. Using interviews with municipal and housing officials and a survey of the housing beneficiaries, the study evaluates the efficacy of the two national housing programs in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah that provide subsidies for affordable homeo…
Human Rights and the City: A View From Canada
In planning matters, human rights challenges are increasing, so planning scholars and practitioners must understand the issues and find ways to address them. In this Viewpoint I argue that the Canadian state, through constitutional and quasi-constitutional protections as well as its active judiciary, has strengthened the rights of Canadians to tackle issues at the city level. Nonetheless, the pursuit of these rights is ongoing, especially regardi…
Understanding the uneven geography of urban energy transitions: Insights from Edmonton, Canada
Cities are important partners in developing solutions towards a low-carbon pathway. However, given the variation in geography, a need exists to study urban energy transitions through a nuanced approach that addresses space- and place-based factors. Based on document analysis and interviews with municipal employees and local energy experts in Edmonton, Canada, we explore how location and availability of energy sources, political territoriality, ph…
Does Community Size Matter in the Settlement Process? The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada
Understanding risk communication in practice: Insights from municipalities in Alberta, Canada
Risk communication is emerging as an important risk-reduction and resilience-building strategy to deal with future risks to communities. However, the linkages between municipalities’ risk communication approaches and existing development priorities remain underexplored. The paper examines ways in which risk communication is practised at the municipal level in the Canadian context, using five municipalities of varying sizes in the province of Albe…
Something old, something new, something green: Community leagues and neighbourhood energy transitions in Edmonton, Canada
Trends, motivations, and land use outcomes of municipal annexation: A case of Alberta, Canada
Annexation is the most common form of municipal boundary adjustment in Canada, yet a systematic analysis of annexations is missing from the academic literature. This begs two key questions: Why do Canadian municipalities annex land? What are the land use outcomes of annexation? This qualitative and quantitative case study of Alberta, a Canadian prairie province, reveals that trends in annexation activity, motivations, and land use outcomes are br…
Exploring spatiotemporal changes of the urban heat Island effect in high-latitude cities at a neighbourhood level: A case of Edmonton, Canada
Urban heat exposures have increased considerably in cities around the globe due to rapid urbanization and the changing climate. This study explores the spatiotemporal variations in surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) across multiple seasons as well as the relationship between neighbourhood-level SUHI intensity and three major factors—land surface, anthropogenic heat, and population characteristics—in a high-latitude city. The study focuses on the …
Spatiotemporal Land Use Changes in Remote Rural Regions of India Between 2000 and 2020
This study tracks the spatiotemporal changes in high-population growth and high-density rural regions of India, also called ‘urural’. The urural areas are remote, high-density rural areas far from zones of urban influence. Deriving the land use and land cover changes from the Global Land Cover and Land Use Change dataset and analysing them in the most populated and dense districts, the study confirms the hypothesis that land uses are continuously…
Human rights and the city: A case of Ontario, Canada
Human rights are inalienable rights we each possess by virtue of being human. In Canada, Ontario has been at the forefront of progressive human rights policies. Despite this, human rights complaints related to land use regulations have been on the rise. This study pursues three questions: Why are human rights challenges against land-use regulations increasing? What human rights challenges do Ontario municipalities face? and how do they respond? W…
Assessing inequity in zoning bylaw: A case of Edmonton, Canada
Equity is a key concern for municipalities, yet current planning scholarship lacks clear, pragmatic guidance on how to identify inequity in municipal zoning bylaws. Although controversial, zoning is the primary legal tool to regulate land and its use. This study examines aspects of the current City of Edmonton zoning bylaw that are most inequitable by closely following the city’s ongoing Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiative. Applying but also expandin…
Vulnerability portrayals across climate risk discourses in Bhubaneswar: An evolutionary perspective
Climate governance studies suggest that the way climate risk and vulnerability are conceptualized, defined, and managed has consequences for people and places. In this paper, we analyze how different climate risk discourses and their vulnerability portrayals are constructed and have evolved in Bhubaneswar city in India. We conduct a Critical Discourse Analysis of various climate action plans and policy documents, as well as a thematic analysis of…
Housing and Homelessness in Indigenous Communities of Canada’s North
A disproportionate number of Indigenous people are homeless in Canada—a situation that is particularly grave in Canada’s North. This study assesses the extent of the current housing and homelessness problem and identifies contributing factors in the Tłıchǫ region of the Northwest Territories (NWT). It concludes that the housing and homelessness issue is severe, with one of the four communities in the region—Behchokǫ̀—being the site with the most …
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