One Idea, Many Plans: American "Neighborhood Unit" Concept in Independent India

Date/Time:	Monday, 15 Oct 2012 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:	130 College of Design
Cost:	free
Contact:	Jane Rongerude
Phone:	515-294-5289
Channel:	College of Design
Categories:	Lectures
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Sanjeev Vidyarthi, assistant professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will describe how the American planning idea of the neighborhood unit was institutionalized as the prototypical model for designing residential neighborhoods in independent India, how the concept was transformed and how Indian cities actually developed over time. Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series.

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Trained as an architect, urban designer and urban planner, Vidyarthi has lived, worked and studied in India, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He holds an honors degree from the Sir JJ School of Architecture at the University of Mumbai; a Master of Architecture in Human Settlements from the University of Leuven, Belgium; and a Master of Urban Planning and a PhD in Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning from the University of Michigan. Vidyarthi's research focuses on city-building processes, urban theory and design, and globalization and development. His doctoral dissertation explores how ideas travel across planning contexts, what happens to them over time and why--specifically, how different urban actors transformed the concept of the American neighborhood unit in independent India.

Cosponsored by the College of Design and Department of Community and Regional Planning.