Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities organized by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata in association with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research January 15 and 16, 2015 Day 1 9.00 – 9.15 Welcome Address by the Director, IDSK 9.15 – 10.00 Keynote Address, Darshini Mahadevia Chair: Amiya Kumar Bagchi 10.00 – 11.45 Thematic Panel 1. O.P. Mathur, The Future of India's Urbanization: Efficient, Equitable, or Sustainable 2. Annapurna Shaw, Towards sustainable cities in India 3. Achin Chakraborty, Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization Chair: Adriana Allen 11.45 – 12.00: Tea/coffee break 1 Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities
(Note: There would be parallel technical sessions at the 6th floor auditorium and 5th floor seminar room at IDSK. All the lectures would be recorded and the video CD would be made available to all the participants of the conference.) 12.00 – 2.00 Venue: 6th floor auditorium Technical session 1: Urban Planning and Governance 4. Gopa Samanta, Beyond Metropolitan Shadow: Governing Small Towns in Eastern India 5. Asish Ghosh, Jenia Mukherjee and Joy Karmakar, ‘At Risk’: Understanding Kolkata’s vulnerability through dichotomies in Urban Planning 6. Parama Banerji and P. K. Bhanja, Participatory Urban Planning under Kolkata Urban Services for the Poor (KUSP) Programme: Haora City, West Bengal 7. Ashwani Luthra, Challenges and Opportunities for an Infant Metropolis: Case of Amritsar as a Sustainable City 8. Sheema Fatima, Urban Development in Patna: A Governance Perspective Chair: Darshini Mahadevia 12.00 – 2.00 Venue: 5th floor seminar room Technical Session 2: Gentrification 9. Priya Sangameswaran, Urbanization and Sustainability in the (Once) Industrial Suburb of Thane 10. Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, An Abandoned Port: Urban Transformation in Begal’s Southern Frontier 11. Dwiparna Chatterjee, Rising Urban Aspirations in the Gentrified Textile Mill Areas of Mumbai: Urbanism Redefined in the Inner City Space 12. Vipin Kumar, Configuring the Urban: Problems of a theory of Inclusive Growth Chair: O.P. Mathur 2.00 – 3.00: Lunch 3.00 – 4.15 Venue: 6th floor auditorium Technical session 3: Civic Infrastructures 13. Atanu Chatterjee, Land Tenure for the Urban Poor and its Implication on the Provision of the Security of Tenure and Property Rights: A Case of Ahmedabad City 2 Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities
14. Srabani Sengupta, Urban Development Projects in West Bengal 15. Prachi Sharma, Understanding Jaipur Transit Plan through Actor Network Theory Chair: Prabhat Dutta 3.00 – 4.15 Venue: 5TH floor seminar room Technical session 4: Urban Inequity 16. Niranjan Sahoo, Understanding the Processes and Patterns of Exclusion in Urban Space: A Case of Three Indian Cities 17. Debapriya Ganguly, State and Strategies of Governance: Looking at the Urban Poor in Visakhapatnam City 18. Binay Krishna Pal, Envisioning the Core: The Future ‘Smart Cities’ of India and the Challenges of the Homeless Chair: Achin Chakraborty 4.15 – 4.30: Tea/coffee break Day 2 10.00 – 12. 00 Venue: 6th floor auditorium Technical session 5: Disasters and Resilience 19. Vibha Aurora and Renuka Thapliyal, Carrying Capacity of Shimla: Assessing its Bio‐physical Resource Base 20. Anju Joon and Ajay Katuri, Urbanization and Industrial Disaster 21. Sakti Mandal and Ratnadip Ray, Urban Heat Island Mapping Use in Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques – A Case‐study on KMDA Region, West Bengal 22. Sukanya Koner, Harshita Thakre and Bikram Brahma, Development Shaping the Disaster Resilience: A Case‐study of Mumbai Mega‐Floods Chair: Asish Ghosh 10.00 – 12.00 Venue: 5th floor seminar room Technical session 6: Waste Management 3 Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities
23. Sajith Shaikh and Avinash Y. Kumar, Performance Assessment in Service Delivery of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Metropolitan Cities: A Comparative Assessment of the case of Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad 24. Anwesha Borthakur, Generation and Management of Electronic Waste in India: A Study of Pune and Bangalore 25. Sneha Sharma and D. Parthasarathy, Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations and Negotiations around Kanjur‐Marg Dumping Ground Mumbai Chair: Mahalaya Chatterjee 12.00 – 12.15: Tea/coffee break 12.15 – 1.45 Venue: 6th floor auditorium Technical session 7: Emissions and Energy Use 26. Mukesh Lakum, ‘Socio‐technical Transitions of Urban Mobility in Delhi’: From High to Low Carbon 27. Sohail Ahmad, Felix Creutzig and Baiocchi Giovanni, The Greenness of India: Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development 28. Aparajita Mukherjee and Sudakshina Gupta, Estimation of Vehicular Pollution in Kolkata Chair: Uttam Bhattacharya 12.15 – 1.45 Venue: 5th floor seminar room Technical session 8: Urban‐rural/urban‐pu linkages 29. Mathew Kuriakose, Quotidian Urbanisation in Kuttanad (IITB) 30. Sana Huque and Sarmistha Pattanaik, Changing Urbanism: A Case‐study of East Kolkata Wetland (IITB) 31. Ramkrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta and Bitul Gangal, Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management: A Case‐study of Fringe Area of Capital NCT – Delhi Chair: Hoffman Pascale 1.45 – 2.45: Lunch (Note: The last session can be attended by all followed by vote of post‐conference agenda and thanks) 4 Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities
2.45 – 4.45 Venue: 6th floor auditorium Technical session 9: Urban Ecology and Environmentalism 32. Amit Jain, Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and the Shades of Power in a Metropolis 33. Amrita Sen and Sarmistha Pattanaik, Urban Space in a Protected Zone: Conservation and Conflicts in Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park 34. Hemant Kumar Chouhan and D. Parthasarathy, Urban at the Edges: Mumbai’s Coastline Urbanisms 35. Debanjana Dey and Sarmila Banerjee, How Costly is the Decay of East Kolkata Wetlands? An Estimation of Opportunity Cost for Kolkata 36. Neha Singh and D. Parthasarathy, Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur Chair: Sharmila Banerjee 4.45 – 5.00 Post‐conference agenda 5.00 – 5.10 Vote of thanks 5 Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities

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