Future Challenges of Cities in Asia (PDF)

Postgraduate and Graduate students, besides guiding Masters and PhD dissertations. In his research, he explores relations between resources management and social distributions of power, leadership, economic development and the impacts of policy and development organizations on these relations. In all these, the special focus has been on large scale infrastructures in rural and urban areas. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has co-authored and co-edited books and has published extensively.Neha Sami studies urban and regional development and governance in post-liberalization India. Her research focuses on the governance arrangements of mega-projects, regional planning, and on environmental governance questions in Indian cities, particularly around issues of climate change adaptation. Neha is currently faculty at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore, India where she teaches on questions of governance and sustainability as well as anchors the Research Programme. She also serves on the Editorial Collective of Urbanisation. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Mumbai. Dr Bing Zhang is the Chief Planner of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and Adjunct Professor at Tongji and Tianjin Universities. He chairs the Academic Committee of Historic City Conservation, Urban Planning Society of China. He has a series of outstanding works in urban and regional planning, including a number of books and more than 70 papers on Theory and History, Heritage Conservation and Strategic Planning. In 2012-2016, as a Pilot Researcher, Bing Zhang has been involved in the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) and was a visiting scholar at the TU Delft in 2012, at the Development Planning Unit, UCL, in 2013, and at ENSAPB in Paris in 2015.