Lakshmi Priya Rajendran
Biographic Data
| ID | 300089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lakshmi Priya Rajendran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lakshmi Priya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajendran |
| SIGNATURE | RAJENDRAN L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4974-4663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and mobility: Household dynamics, caregiving and patriarchal constraints shaping women’s movement in Kochi, India
Women’s mobility is shaped by gendered social norms, caregiving responsibilities and patriarchal expectations. This study examines how middle-aged women in urban India navigate mobility constraints produced by household gender dynamics and care work. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and Hochschild’s ‘second shift’, the analysis explores how women’s mobility choices are conditioned by internalised norms and the everyday demands of caregivi…
Temporal Entanglements, Fragmented Spaces: Planning, Politics, and Place Rhythms
What does it mean for urban planners and designers to shape places through and with time? The 2020 public health restrictions highlighted the relevance of Carlos Moreno’s et al. (2021) 15-minute-city concept, which outlined the need for a “chrono-urbanism” incorporating societal resilience micro-infrastructures. Notions of temporal planning, however, have deeper roots; Kevin Lynch’s classic imageability (1964) and place-timing studies (1972) high…
"Where Is the Time?": Time Poverty and Women's Urban Mobility Narratives in Kochi, India
Time poverty disproportionately affects urban women due to the societal expectations of balancing their work and gender roles. In urban environments, women’s time use is significantly influenced by their daily mobility experiences. Despite a wealth of existing research on time use and mobility, mostly in developed countries, understanding gendered dimensions of mobility and time poverty in cities of developing nations remains unexplored. Using Ti…
From multiversity to politiversity: Decolonial pedagogy in the age of genocide
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
The ‘peri-urban turn’: A systems thinking approach for a paradigm shift in reconceptualising urban-rural futures in the global South
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Disruptive (un)certainties: Emergent socio-spatial narratives of/in the everyday public realm in Istanbul
The public realm of Istanbul manifests a visceral fear and agony caused by several social–political conflicts and struggle which has impacted the everyday life of people. Through an artistic representation of public space perception and experience in Istanbul, we reflect on how the socio-political context impacts the everyday spatialities entangling individual and collective memory, current events and future un(certainties). Going beyond the domi…
Royal Gardens in Republican Iran: A case study of the Golestan Palace Garden, Tehran
In 1925, the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime led to the deliberate destruction of Qajar gardens (1785 to 1925), most of which were converted into military bases. A limited number, such as the Golestan Palace Garden, were partly preserved. However, there had been mass destruction of ‘unsolicited’ and ‘outdated’ buildings by the Qajars and the denigration of religious rituals. Following the fall of the monarchy and establishment of the Islamic R…
Peri-urbanization, dynamics, and challenges in developing countries towards sustainable urban growth - Special Section Editorial
Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures
A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK
This article examines density and deprivation, the two important parameters that define health and well-being in cities. Discussions are drawn from a case study conducted in Birmingham in four neighborhoods characterized by their different population density and deprivation levels. Data were collected through questionnaires developed from a set of subjective well-being measures and built environment audits, based on the Irvine Minnesota Inventory…
A renewed approach to conservation policy of historical gardens in Iran
In Iran, due to political and economic challenges, historical gardens are not celebrated as an important part of the country’s heritage. The issue of garden conservation is widely neglected, and up to now, there has been no record of its own history. This paper retrospectively re-examines the changes in the perception of cultural heritage through the lens of historical gardens in twentieth-century Iran. The data have been collected from unexamine…
Image of place as a byproduct of medium: Understanding media and place through case study of Foursquare
The ‘peri-urban turn’: A systems thinking approach for a paradigm shift in reconceptualising urban-rural futures in the global South
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK
This article examines density and deprivation, the two important parameters that define health and well-being in cities. Discussions are drawn from a case study conducted in Birmingham in four neighborhoods characterized by their different population density and deprivation levels. Data were collected through questionnaires developed from a set of subjective well-being measures and built environment audits, based on the Irvine Minnesota Inventory…
A renewed approach to conservation policy of historical gardens in Iran
In Iran, due to political and economic challenges, historical gardens are not celebrated as an important part of the country’s heritage. The issue of garden conservation is widely neglected, and up to now, there has been no record of its own history. This paper retrospectively re-examines the changes in the perception of cultural heritage through the lens of historical gardens in twentieth-century Iran. The data have been collected from unexamine…
Image of place as a byproduct of medium: Understanding media and place through case study of Foursquare
A renewed approach to conservation policy of historical gardens in Iran
In Iran, due to political and economic challenges, historical gardens are not celebrated as an important part of the country’s heritage. The issue of garden conservation is widely neglected, and up to now, there has been no record of its own history. This paper retrospectively re-examines the changes in the perception of cultural heritage through the lens of historical gardens in twentieth-century Iran. The data have been collected from unexamine…
Mediated Identities in the Futures of Place: Emerging Practices and Spatial Cultures
A Socio-Spatial Approach to Enable Inclusive Well-Being in Cities: A Case Study of Birmingham, UK
This article examines density and deprivation, the two important parameters that define health and well-being in cities. Discussions are drawn from a case study conducted in Birmingham in four neighborhoods characterized by their different population density and deprivation levels. Data were collected through questionnaires developed from a set of subjective well-being measures and built environment audits, based on the Irvine Minnesota Inventory…
Royal Gardens in Republican Iran: A case study of the Golestan Palace Garden, Tehran
In 1925, the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime led to the deliberate destruction of Qajar gardens (1785 to 1925), most of which were converted into military bases. A limited number, such as the Golestan Palace Garden, were partly preserved. However, there had been mass destruction of ‘unsolicited’ and ‘outdated’ buildings by the Qajars and the denigration of religious rituals. Following the fall of the monarchy and establishment of the Islamic R…
Peri-urbanization, dynamics, and challenges in developing countries towards sustainable urban growth - Special Section Editorial
Disruptive (un)certainties: Emergent socio-spatial narratives of/in the everyday public realm in Istanbul
The public realm of Istanbul manifests a visceral fear and agony caused by several social–political conflicts and struggle which has impacted the everyday life of people. Through an artistic representation of public space perception and experience in Istanbul, we reflect on how the socio-political context impacts the everyday spatialities entangling individual and collective memory, current events and future un(certainties). Going beyond the domi…
The ‘peri-urban turn’: A systems thinking approach for a paradigm shift in reconceptualising urban-rural futures in the global South
With the rapid pace of urbanization, urban sprawl has become a prevalent phenomenon, particularly in the global South, leading to the emergence of peri-urban spaces where rural-urban interfaces occur. These peri-urban areas exhibit dynamic and continuous interactions among social, economic, and environmental systems, offering valuable insights for fostering resilient futures. However, this aspect remains largely unexplored in current research due…
Temporal Entanglements, Fragmented Spaces: Planning, Politics, and Place Rhythms
What does it mean for urban planners and designers to shape places through and with time? The 2020 public health restrictions highlighted the relevance of Carlos Moreno’s et al. (2021) 15-minute-city concept, which outlined the need for a “chrono-urbanism” incorporating societal resilience micro-infrastructures. Notions of temporal planning, however, have deeper roots; Kevin Lynch’s classic imageability (1964) and place-timing studies (1972) high…
"Where Is the Time?": Time Poverty and Women's Urban Mobility Narratives in Kochi, India
Time poverty disproportionately affects urban women due to the societal expectations of balancing their work and gender roles. In urban environments, women’s time use is significantly influenced by their daily mobility experiences. Despite a wealth of existing research on time use and mobility, mostly in developed countries, understanding gendered dimensions of mobility and time poverty in cities of developing nations remains unexplored. Using Ti…
From multiversity to politiversity: Decolonial pedagogy in the age of genocide
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics).…
Gender and mobility: Household dynamics, caregiving and patriarchal constraints shaping women’s movement in Kochi, India
Women’s mobility is shaped by gendered social norms, caregiving responsibilities and patriarchal expectations. This study examines how middle-aged women in urban India navigate mobility constraints produced by household gender dynamics and care work. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and Hochschild’s ‘second shift’, the analysis explores how women’s mobility choices are conditioned by internalised norms and the everyday demands of caregivi…
Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)