Surajit Chakravarty
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3857595 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Surajit Chakravarty |
| PRENOMES | Surajit |
| SOBRENOME | Chakravarty |
| ASSINATURA | CHAKRAVARTY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8020-5396 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums
Sympathy for the bogeyman planner
This paper reports findings from a survey of public-sector urban planners in India. The survey attempts to gauge planners’ opinions on the importance of planning values in everyday decisions and the degree to which these values are delivered in practice. In-depth interviews were used to validate the survey results and investigate themes further. The study presents a nuanced and contextualized analysis of the attitudes and mindsets of planners. It…
Seeing into the entropic state
The Integrated Command and Control Centre (IC3) has emerged as a key component of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India. Although the mission has been widely critiqued, IC3s were used for communications, resource allocation and inter-departmental coordination in many cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, based in the state of Kerala, uses in-depth interviews with personnel who were actively involved in the pandemic response, along wi…
Challenges of consultant-led planning in India’s smart cities mission
The growing involvement of private-sector consultants in urban planning has been critiqued as a potential problem, mainly due to doubts over their ethical position. India’s Smart Cities Mission which aims to equip 100 cities with smart technologies, relies on private consultants both to plan the interventions and to implement them. With the planning phase now complete, and implementation in its early stages, this study examines the proposals gene…
Continuous Production and New Forms of Labour
This article makes two arguments. First, that advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created multiple parallel flows of consumption that allow us to be productive continuously, in the sense of generating value for the economy. Second, the struggle over social time poses emergent challenges for planning and urban design. After introducing the relevant themes, this article explains how value is derived from labour and the p…
Drive-through cities
This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility – labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers’ attitudes of dominanc…
Un-Cities
Cities of the Arabian/Persian Gulf region have grown from dusty outposts into bustling centers of the global economy in a matter of a few decades. The oil wealth has been invested wisely to create world-class infrastructure, particularly ports and roads. In addition, most major cities of the region serve as hubs for international airlines. Moreover, each city is attempting to create its own tourism identity, developing an image based on a combina…
Global Cities, Public Transportation, and Social Exclusion
As cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council grow and integrate with global markets, questions relating to their unique social compositions continue to emerge. Abu Dhabi has been competing with other cities in the region through massive investments in infrastructure and megaprojects, including the provision of public transportation. The paper examines the issues of bus ridership in Abu Dhabi and relates it to the broader debates on social exclusion …
Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi
Imagining Shared Space
Murals have long been used in communities to express solidarity and voice political opinions. As neighborhoods become increasingly diverse, complex economic and political motivations emerge for making murals that reflect new claims and contests over space. Focusing on recently designated ethnic “-towns” in the Greater Los Angeles area, the study finds that murals reveal multiple narratives and motives, including negotiations over space, identity,…
Global Gentrifications
Golden geese or white elephants? The paradoxes of world heritage sites and community-based tourism development in Agra, India
This study examines the relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHSs) and local community development in Agra, India. We investigate two interrelated themes: the role of planning in developing the tourism potential of the Taj Mahal and other WHSs in Agra, and the impact of the WHS framework on the development of the city. We analyze the weaknesses of the institutions and agencies responsible for Agra's inability to convert the development pote…
Entertainment–Retail Centres in Hong Kong and Los Angeles
This paper examines the evolution and recent trends in the design of Entertainment Retail Centres (ERCs) in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Most of the literature on spaces of consumption and leisure deals with economic reasons for the development of these spaces, and with the social, cultural, and political implications of the phenomenon. There are limitations to this approach that this study addresses. First, there has been a lack of attention to pr…
Global Cities, Public Transportation, and Social Exclusion
As cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council grow and integrate with global markets, questions relating to their unique social compositions continue to emerge. Abu Dhabi has been competing with other cities in the region through massive investments in infrastructure and megaprojects, including the provision of public transportation. The paper examines the issues of bus ridership in Abu Dhabi and relates it to the broader debates on social exclusion …
Imagining Shared Space
Murals have long been used in communities to express solidarity and voice political opinions. As neighborhoods become increasingly diverse, complex economic and political motivations emerge for making murals that reflect new claims and contests over space. Focusing on recently designated ethnic “-towns” in the Greater Los Angeles area, the study finds that murals reveal multiple narratives and motives, including negotiations over space, identity,…
Drive-through cities
This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility – labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers’ attitudes of dominanc…
Seeing into the entropic state
The Integrated Command and Control Centre (IC3) has emerged as a key component of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India. Although the mission has been widely critiqued, IC3s were used for communications, resource allocation and inter-departmental coordination in many cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, based in the state of Kerala, uses in-depth interviews with personnel who were actively involved in the pandemic response, along wi…
Golden geese or white elephants? The paradoxes of world heritage sites and community-based tourism development in Agra, India
This study examines the relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHSs) and local community development in Agra, India. We investigate two interrelated themes: the role of planning in developing the tourism potential of the Taj Mahal and other WHSs in Agra, and the impact of the WHS framework on the development of the city. We analyze the weaknesses of the institutions and agencies responsible for Agra's inability to convert the development pote…
Entertainment–Retail Centres in Hong Kong and Los Angeles
This paper examines the evolution and recent trends in the design of Entertainment Retail Centres (ERCs) in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. Most of the literature on spaces of consumption and leisure deals with economic reasons for the development of these spaces, and with the social, cultural, and political implications of the phenomenon. There are limitations to this approach that this study addresses. First, there has been a lack of attention to pr…
Golden geese or white elephants? The paradoxes of world heritage sites and community-based tourism development in Agra, India
This study examines the relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHSs) and local community development in Agra, India. We investigate two interrelated themes: the role of planning in developing the tourism potential of the Taj Mahal and other WHSs in Agra, and the impact of the WHS framework on the development of the city. We analyze the weaknesses of the institutions and agencies responsible for Agra's inability to convert the development pote…
Global Gentrifications
Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi
Imagining Shared Space
Murals have long been used in communities to express solidarity and voice political opinions. As neighborhoods become increasingly diverse, complex economic and political motivations emerge for making murals that reflect new claims and contests over space. Focusing on recently designated ethnic “-towns” in the Greater Los Angeles area, the study finds that murals reveal multiple narratives and motives, including negotiations over space, identity,…
Global Cities, Public Transportation, and Social Exclusion
As cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council grow and integrate with global markets, questions relating to their unique social compositions continue to emerge. Abu Dhabi has been competing with other cities in the region through massive investments in infrastructure and megaprojects, including the provision of public transportation. The paper examines the issues of bus ridership in Abu Dhabi and relates it to the broader debates on social exclusion …
Un-Cities
Cities of the Arabian/Persian Gulf region have grown from dusty outposts into bustling centers of the global economy in a matter of a few decades. The oil wealth has been invested wisely to create world-class infrastructure, particularly ports and roads. In addition, most major cities of the region serve as hubs for international airlines. Moreover, each city is attempting to create its own tourism identity, developing an image based on a combina…
Continuous Production and New Forms of Labour
This article makes two arguments. First, that advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created multiple parallel flows of consumption that allow us to be productive continuously, in the sense of generating value for the economy. Second, the struggle over social time poses emergent challenges for planning and urban design. After introducing the relevant themes, this article explains how value is derived from labour and the p…
Drive-through cities
This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility – labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers’ attitudes of dominanc…
Challenges of consultant-led planning in India’s smart cities mission
The growing involvement of private-sector consultants in urban planning has been critiqued as a potential problem, mainly due to doubts over their ethical position. India’s Smart Cities Mission which aims to equip 100 cities with smart technologies, relies on private consultants both to plan the interventions and to implement them. With the planning phase now complete, and implementation in its early stages, this study examines the proposals gene…
Sympathy for the bogeyman planner
This paper reports findings from a survey of public-sector urban planners in India. The survey attempts to gauge planners’ opinions on the importance of planning values in everyday decisions and the degree to which these values are delivered in practice. In-depth interviews were used to validate the survey results and investigate themes further. The study presents a nuanced and contextualized analysis of the attitudes and mindsets of planners. It…
Seeing into the entropic state
The Integrated Command and Control Centre (IC3) has emerged as a key component of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India. Although the mission has been widely critiqued, IC3s were used for communications, resource allocation and inter-departmental coordination in many cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study, based in the state of Kerala, uses in-depth interviews with personnel who were actively involved in the pandemic response, along wi…
Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums
Political science (12 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Economic geography (6 obras) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras)