Sustainability in India’s rapidly developing urban areas
Envisioning the Future and Understanding the Realities of India’s Urban Ecologies
An Interdisciplinary Conference hosted by Kennesaw State University in conjunction with our 'Year of India' program and in collaboration with Georgia State University's Urban Studies Institute and the Consulate of India, Atlanta.
Dates: March 15 - 17, 2018
India, a land of ancient wisdom and cultural world heritage, is home to the world’s first cities. In the last twenty years it has experienced unprecedented growth, development, and change, altering its physical, cultural, and social landscape with dramatic effect. Today, its cities embody a paradoxical mix of globalization, modernity, and advanced technology with regionalism, tradition, and religion, juxtaposed with extreme poverty and inequality.
Sustainability, in all its facets has emerged as a key problem in India’s development story. Urbanization is not an independent variable of development, but an integral part and product of the development process itself. Therefore, there is a need to understand urban issues as part of a larger development process affecting both rural and urban communities and livelihoods, employing historical and contemporary perspectives (with regional and global implications).
Building off research in the fields of Sociology, Biology, and Architecture, the conference will examine contemporary urban growth in India and its effects on the everyday ecologies of its people. Our goal is a more holistic understanding of India’s urban ecologies, their interdependence, and the need for more sustainable strategies for urbanization. India’s cities can provide applicable lessons to the more global concerns of urbanization around the world.
Potential topics include:
- Is there a distinctly ‘Indian’ Urbanism?
- Rural Urbanization and Urban Planning
- Balancing Growth and Development
- Colonial and Postcolonial Cities
- Dispersed Cities
- Infrastructure and Innovation in Historic Cities
- Global/Smart City Development in India and its Implications
- E-governance and Technology
- Green Cities and Sustainability
- Current Trends, Future Projections, and Key Challenges for Sustainability
- Inclusive Growth: Slums, Urban Villages, and the Challenge of Urbanism
- Value Struggles: Waste, Work and Ecology
- Agrarian Crisis and Land Acquisition
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
- Impacts of Urbanization on the Environment
- Urban Health, Wellness and Quality of Life
- Global Warming, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Re-emerging Diseases
- Infrastructure & Industrialization: Impact on Air, Water, Sanitation & Pollution
Exhibit:
Multicultural India: A Visual Journey
Featuring the photography of Robert Arnett
Gallery Hours of operation are:
M-F 9:00am- 4:30pm.
Sat. 9:00am- 2:00pm
KSU Social Science Building Atrium
402 Bartow Ave, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Poster Session:
"The Indian Garment Industry in Global Context"
Featuring the work of Students from Dr. Jason Rhodes’ courses on Geography.
Early Reception:
March 15, 2018
Friday, March 16th 2018
- 8:00am- 4:30pm:On- Site Registration,
Main Office Arch. Bldg.
Please pay any outstanding registration fees and pick up conference materials
- 8:15am Bus Shuttle from Hotel to Architecture Building, KSU
- 8:30am- 9:15am: Presenters Breakfast, Reception,
Architecture Gallery
Reserved for Presenters and Full Registration Attendees
- 9:25am- 9:45am: Welcome & Opening Introduction,
Pitt Jury Space
- Welcome: Dan Paracka, Director of Academic Initiatives and Professor of Education Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA USA
- Introduction: Dr. Tony Rizzuto- Chair, Department of Architecture Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA USA
Ravi Ghadge- Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA USA
- Welcome: Dan Paracka, Director of Academic Initiatives and Professor of Education Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA USA
- 9:45am- 11:30am: Paper Session 1,
Rm 174
Title: History & Influences
- Paper 1- ‘Turning Leaves: Colonial Ecological Texts and the Making of Goan Modernity’ – R. Benedito Ferrao, College of William & Mary
- Paper 2- ‘Chandigarh: a 21st Century Smart City?’ – Dhruvee Patel Kennesaw State University
- Paper 3- ‘Recovering Sustainable Design Practices in Early Post-Independence India Housing: Two Case Studies’ – Daniel Williamson, SCAD Atlanta
- Paper 1- ‘Turning Leaves: Colonial Ecological Texts and the Making of Goan Modernity’ – R. Benedito Ferrao, College of William & Mary
- 11:30pm- 12:30pm: Paper Session 2,
Rm 174
Title: The Impact of Globalization
- Paper 4- ‘Inclusive Growth and the Urban Question’ - Dr. Ravi Ghadge, Kennesaw State University
- Paper 5- ‘Human Rights, Globalization and Immigrants in the Indian City’ – Tinaz Parvi, Spelman College
- Paper 4- ‘Inclusive Growth and the Urban Question’ - Dr. Ravi Ghadge, Kennesaw State University
- 12:30- 1:45pm: Presenters Luncheon,
Architecture Gallery
Reserved for Presenters and Full Registration Attendees
- 1:45pm - 3:30pm: Paper Session 3,
Rm 174
Title: Globalization, Sustainability and Housing Equity
- Paper 6- ‘Deriving Framework for Slum Rehabilitation through Environmental Perspectives ; Case Study Mumbai India’ – Ashwini Bhosale, B.R. Harne College of Architecture, Vangani, Maharashtra India
- Paper 7- ‘Who’s Mumbai is it? Urban Contestations in a Globalizing City’ – Dr. Ravi Ghadge, Kennesaw State University
- Paper 8- ‘Housing for All in India – as a Sustainable Development Goal’ – Nadia Shah, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Paper 6- ‘Deriving Framework for Slum Rehabilitation through Environmental Perspectives ; Case Study Mumbai India’ – Ashwini Bhosale, B.R. Harne College of Architecture, Vangani, Maharashtra India
- 3:30pm- 3:45pm: Coffee Break,
Architecture Building
Coffee and Beverages will be available for Registered Attendees
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm: Keynote Presentation 2,
Pitt Jury Space
Featuring: Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha
- 6:30pm: Bus Shuttle to Reception,
TBA
Saturday, March 17, 2018
- 8:00am- 4:30pm: On- Site Registration Main Office, Arch Bldg
Reserved for Presenters and Full Registration Attendees
- 9:00am- 10:00am: Keynote Presentation 2,
Pitt Jury Space
Featuring: Johannes Nijman
- 10:00- 10:15am: Coffee Break,
Architecture Bldg.
Coffee and Beverages will be available for Registered Attendees
- 10:15am- 12:00am: Paper Session 4,
Rm174
- Paper 9- 'Critical Success Factors for the Implementation of Smart Cities Mission in India' - Amrita Chowdhury, Director, Gaia Smart Cities Mumbai India
- Paper 10- ‘India’s Unbalanced Urban Growth: and Appraisal of Trends and Processes’ - Purva Sharma, UNC Greensboro
- Paper 11- ‘Bike Sharing in India: Fad or Sustainable Way of Life’ - Amrita Chowdhury, Director, Gaia Smart Cities Mumbai India, Mona Sinha, Kennesaw State University and Nuri Sinha The Georgia Institute of Technology
- Paper 9- 'Critical Success Factors for the Implementation of Smart Cities Mission in India' - Amrita Chowdhury, Director, Gaia Smart Cities Mumbai India
- 12:00pm- 1:00pm: Presenters Luncheon,
Architecture Gallery
Reserved for Presenters and Full Registration Attendees
- 1:00am- 2:00am: Salon Session 1,
Rm 174
Title: TBA
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2:00pm- 3:00pm Salon Session 2,
Rm 174
Title: TBA
- 3:15pm Bus Shuttle to Hotel
- 7:15pm Shuttle to Bailey Performance Hall
- 8:00pm Duo Virtuoso Concert Performance by Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Charuasia,
Bailey Performance Center
Venues: various, above
Registration: $210 regular , $150 students, here
Contact: http://dga.kennesaw.edu/yearof/YoI_ Conference_2018.php, Dan Paracka at dparacka@kennesaw.edu.
Select papers will be eligible for publication in a special issue of KSU's peer-reviewed Journal of Global Initiatives focused on india.
