Urmi Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4211894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Urmi Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Urmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5869-942X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
(Re)adaptation of urban space in post-disaster recovery
Geopolitical priorities, governance gaps, and heritage subjectivities
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent around the world, causing extensive damage to both the physical and social fabric of cities and towns. Reconstruction of a city’s architecture and built heritage becomes a priority to safeguard lives, livelihoods, traditions, and cultures. The process, however, is replete with conflict and mediation between different tiers of governance resulting in a complex ‘heritagescape’. Drawing on the post-disast…
Between Mandala and World Stage
Cities change. A sudden natural disaster may destroy a city. Spaces that were once important for the citizens and political life may be lost to development. Spaces that survive hold the quirks of history, culture, and society. This article develops a historical account of urban public space that explores the changing relationship between space, political order, identity, and memory. Using Tundikhel, the largest public open space of national signi…
Study protocol
The HULAP study has been designed and implemented by a multi-disciplinary team and integrates differing methodologies to purposefully impact on policy and practice on healthy ageing in high and low-middle income countries. It has particular strengths in its combination of objective and self-reported measures using validated tools and the integration of GPS, accelerometer and GIS data to provide a robust assessment of 'spatial energetics'. The str…
Ruptured space and spatial estrangement
Public space is increasingly recognised to be central to spatial discourse of cities. A city’s urbanism is displayed in public spaces, representing a myriad of complex socio-cultural, economic and democratic practices of everyday life. In cities of the Global South, especially those with nascent democracies, different values attached to a space by various actors – both material and symbolic – frame the contestation, making the physical space a no…
Between enabling and provider approach
With the world becoming increasingly urban, housing poverty in the global south has made the metaphor ‘planet of slums’ a global reality. This paper revisits the dichotomy of enabler vs. provider debate in housing policy that preoccupied housing scholars in the last few decades. Drawing on the government intervention in Brazil and India, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of enabling strategy has now come of an age. Among …
Lost in transition? Emerging forms of residential architecture in Kathmandu
Mapping the Kathmandu Valley With Aerial Photographs by Erwin Schneider
Reviewed: Mapping the Kathmandu Valley With Aerial Photographs by Erwin Schneider By Neils Gutschow and Hermann Kreutzmann. Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal Books, 2013. 216 pp. US $ 48.00. ISBN 978-9937-597-06-7
Urban Navigations
Affordable housing development in India
Affordable housing has been the latest addition in the lexicon of Indian policy circles. As neoliberalism started gathering political and policy momentum, the discourse around low-income housing has shifted towards the Government of India's agenda of ‘affordable housing for all’. A stated goal of the policy is to increase housing supply, including the low-income category. Today, however, the manifesting goals of affordable housing design seem to …
The hindered self-help
No longer Sukumbasis
Housing Reform in Kolkata
Since 1991 the housing sector in Kolkata has been the subject of significant reforms based on profound changes in the political economy of the State of West Bengal. The paper reviews four reform initiatives: public-private partnership, privatisation of public rental housing, development of New Towns, and the finance sector deregulation in Kolkata and discusses their relevance to the urban context of the city. It is observed that the new reform me…
The Performance of Public-sector Housing in Kolkata, India, in the Post-reform Milieu
The public sector has been a prominent actor in the urban housing sector in the State of West Bengal for the past three decades. Reform measures introduced since 1990 have led to a shift in the mode of public housing delivery from direct provision to providing housing in the market model. The concept of private-sector participation in construction and finance has emerged as a natural response to meet the colossal demand for housing within governm…
The challenge of squatter settlements in Kathmandu
Squatter settlements and slums have become widespread in many Third World cities. Numerous squatter settlements have emerged in different urban centres across Nepal in the last two decades, with Kathmandu, the capital city, being the epicentre. Increasingly, new migrants are clustering in diminishing prime open spaces and environmentally sensitive areas. Though the proportion of squatter housing is low compared to other Third World cities, it is …
Liberalization and the privatization of public rental housing in Kolkata
Government intervention and public–private partnerships in housing delivery in Kolkata
Government intervention and public–private partnerships in housing delivery in Kolkata
The hindered self-help
Housing Reform in Kolkata
Since 1991 the housing sector in Kolkata has been the subject of significant reforms based on profound changes in the political economy of the State of West Bengal. The paper reviews four reform initiatives: public-private partnership, privatisation of public rental housing, development of New Towns, and the finance sector deregulation in Kolkata and discusses their relevance to the urban context of the city. It is observed that the new reform me…
The Performance of Public-sector Housing in Kolkata, India, in the Post-reform Milieu
The public sector has been a prominent actor in the urban housing sector in the State of West Bengal for the past three decades. Reform measures introduced since 1990 have led to a shift in the mode of public housing delivery from direct provision to providing housing in the market model. The concept of private-sector participation in construction and finance has emerged as a natural response to meet the colossal demand for housing within governm…
Liberalization and the privatization of public rental housing in Kolkata
Between enabling and provider approach
With the world becoming increasingly urban, housing poverty in the global south has made the metaphor ‘planet of slums’ a global reality. This paper revisits the dichotomy of enabler vs. provider debate in housing policy that preoccupied housing scholars in the last few decades. Drawing on the government intervention in Brazil and India, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of enabling strategy has now come of an age. Among …
Affordable housing development in India
Affordable housing has been the latest addition in the lexicon of Indian policy circles. As neoliberalism started gathering political and policy momentum, the discourse around low-income housing has shifted towards the Government of India's agenda of ‘affordable housing for all’. A stated goal of the policy is to increase housing supply, including the low-income category. Today, however, the manifesting goals of affordable housing design seem to …
No longer Sukumbasis
The challenge of squatter settlements in Kathmandu
Squatter settlements and slums have become widespread in many Third World cities. Numerous squatter settlements have emerged in different urban centres across Nepal in the last two decades, with Kathmandu, the capital city, being the epicentre. Increasingly, new migrants are clustering in diminishing prime open spaces and environmentally sensitive areas. Though the proportion of squatter housing is low compared to other Third World cities, it is …
Geopolitical priorities, governance gaps, and heritage subjectivities
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent around the world, causing extensive damage to both the physical and social fabric of cities and towns. Reconstruction of a city’s architecture and built heritage becomes a priority to safeguard lives, livelihoods, traditions, and cultures. The process, however, is replete with conflict and mediation between different tiers of governance resulting in a complex ‘heritagescape’. Drawing on the post-disast…
Ruptured space and spatial estrangement
Public space is increasingly recognised to be central to spatial discourse of cities. A city’s urbanism is displayed in public spaces, representing a myriad of complex socio-cultural, economic and democratic practices of everyday life. In cities of the Global South, especially those with nascent democracies, different values attached to a space by various actors – both material and symbolic – frame the contestation, making the physical space a no…
Lost in transition? Emerging forms of residential architecture in Kathmandu
The challenge of squatter settlements in Kathmandu
Squatter settlements and slums have become widespread in many Third World cities. Numerous squatter settlements have emerged in different urban centres across Nepal in the last two decades, with Kathmandu, the capital city, being the epicentre. Increasingly, new migrants are clustering in diminishing prime open spaces and environmentally sensitive areas. Though the proportion of squatter housing is low compared to other Third World cities, it is …
Liberalization and the privatization of public rental housing in Kolkata
Government intervention and public–private partnerships in housing delivery in Kolkata
Housing Reform in Kolkata
Since 1991 the housing sector in Kolkata has been the subject of significant reforms based on profound changes in the political economy of the State of West Bengal. The paper reviews four reform initiatives: public-private partnership, privatisation of public rental housing, development of New Towns, and the finance sector deregulation in Kolkata and discusses their relevance to the urban context of the city. It is observed that the new reform me…
The Performance of Public-sector Housing in Kolkata, India, in the Post-reform Milieu
The public sector has been a prominent actor in the urban housing sector in the State of West Bengal for the past three decades. Reform measures introduced since 1990 have led to a shift in the mode of public housing delivery from direct provision to providing housing in the market model. The concept of private-sector participation in construction and finance has emerged as a natural response to meet the colossal demand for housing within governm…
No longer Sukumbasis
The hindered self-help
Urban Navigations
Affordable housing development in India
Affordable housing has been the latest addition in the lexicon of Indian policy circles. As neoliberalism started gathering political and policy momentum, the discourse around low-income housing has shifted towards the Government of India's agenda of ‘affordable housing for all’. A stated goal of the policy is to increase housing supply, including the low-income category. Today, however, the manifesting goals of affordable housing design seem to …
Mapping the Kathmandu Valley With Aerial Photographs by Erwin Schneider
Reviewed: Mapping the Kathmandu Valley With Aerial Photographs by Erwin Schneider By Neils Gutschow and Hermann Kreutzmann. Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal Books, 2013. 216 pp. US $ 48.00. ISBN 978-9937-597-06-7
Lost in transition? Emerging forms of residential architecture in Kathmandu
Between enabling and provider approach
With the world becoming increasingly urban, housing poverty in the global south has made the metaphor ‘planet of slums’ a global reality. This paper revisits the dichotomy of enabler vs. provider debate in housing policy that preoccupied housing scholars in the last few decades. Drawing on the government intervention in Brazil and India, it is argued that the transformative and adaptive capacity of enabling strategy has now come of an age. Among …
Study protocol
The HULAP study has been designed and implemented by a multi-disciplinary team and integrates differing methodologies to purposefully impact on policy and practice on healthy ageing in high and low-middle income countries. It has particular strengths in its combination of objective and self-reported measures using validated tools and the integration of GPS, accelerometer and GIS data to provide a robust assessment of 'spatial energetics'. The str…
Ruptured space and spatial estrangement
Public space is increasingly recognised to be central to spatial discourse of cities. A city’s urbanism is displayed in public spaces, representing a myriad of complex socio-cultural, economic and democratic practices of everyday life. In cities of the Global South, especially those with nascent democracies, different values attached to a space by various actors – both material and symbolic – frame the contestation, making the physical space a no…
Between Mandala and World Stage
Cities change. A sudden natural disaster may destroy a city. Spaces that were once important for the citizens and political life may be lost to development. Spaces that survive hold the quirks of history, culture, and society. This article develops a historical account of urban public space that explores the changing relationship between space, political order, identity, and memory. Using Tundikhel, the largest public open space of national signi…
Geopolitical priorities, governance gaps, and heritage subjectivities
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent around the world, causing extensive damage to both the physical and social fabric of cities and towns. Reconstruction of a city’s architecture and built heritage becomes a priority to safeguard lives, livelihoods, traditions, and cultures. The process, however, is replete with conflict and mediation between different tiers of governance resulting in a complex ‘heritagescape’. Drawing on the post-disast…
(Re)adaptation of urban space in post-disaster recovery
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