Designing Trans-Generational Urban Communities: An Approach Towards Inclusive Cities in the Indian Context

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

Basudatta Sarkar is an architect-planner and academician presently teaching at National Institute of Technology Rourkela as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Architecture. She has completed her doctoral research from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2016. Her areas of interest include vulnerability assessment; age sensitive and gender sensitive neighbourhood; green infrastructure and impact assessment of social ties in Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterpries (MSME).

Haimanti Banerji, is a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning and the Associate Dean of Continuing Education and Outreach at IIT Kharagpur. She has more than 19 years of working experience with the vulnerable groups in urban Indian context. She is one of the authors of Universal Design India Principles (c) NID, 2011. Her recent contribution towards mainstreaming inclusion in the domain of urban planning and development is the Inclusive City Framework and revision of URDPFI guidelines, and preparation of online courses and toolkits for professional along with UN-Habitat and NIUA. Dr. Banerji is also actively involved in the Global Housing Technology Challenge (GHTC), an initiative by Govt. of India to provide ’Housing for All’ in various capacities. Her recent international academic collaborations include Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania and MIT, USA.