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Faculty Profile

Neema Kudva

Title

Associate Professor

Department

City & Regional Planning

Address

217 W. Sibley Hall

Phone

(607) 255-3939

Email

kudva@cornell.edu

Neema Kudva's research focuses on international urbanization particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development at the local level. She has explored various aspects of the role of public agencies and nongovernmental organizations in planning and development (primarily in South Asia but also in the U.S.). She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on a rapidly growing smaller city and its region in southwestern India and on an edited Reader (with Faranak Miraftab) on cities across the global south. 

 

Kudva directs the International Studies in Planning Program and is affiliated with the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, the South Asia Studies Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Visual Studies Program at Cornell, and is a faculty fellow at Carl Becker House. She is also the cochair (2009–11) for the Global Planning Educators Interest Group (GPEIG) at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Prior to joining CRP in 2001, she worked as a planning consultant to public agencies in San Francisco and as an architect in India and Europe.

 

Kudva received her Dip.Arch. from the school of architecture at Ahmedabad, India, in 1989 and her M.Arch./M.C.P. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2001.

Courses (selected)

  • CRP 1101  The Global City
  • CRP 3201 / 5201  Qualitative Methods
  • CRP 5130  Introduction to Planning Practice and History
  • CRP 6150  Current Issues and Debates on NGOs
  • CRP 3901/6710 Seminar on International Planning

Publications (selected)

  • “Creating Space for Participation, the Role of Organizational Practice in Structuring Youth Participation,” Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society, with David Driskell (2009)
  • “The Everyday and the Episodic, Understanding the Spatial and Political Impacts of Informality,” Environment and Planning (2009)
  • “Gender Quotas, the Politics of Presence and the Feminist Project: What does the Indian Experience Tell Us?” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, with Kajri Misra (2008)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)

  • Emerging Directions in Decentralized Participatory Planning, Small Grants Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell (2010–11)
  • Water in South Asia conference, Small Grants Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell, with Durba Ghosh and Anne Blackburne (2010–11)
  • Building the Informalized City, Small Grants Program, Institute for Social Sciences, Cornel, with Jeremy Foster and Lily Chi (2010–11).
  • Illinois-WUN International Development Grant Program, Virtual Cities, A Web-based Shared Teaching Resource Initiative, with Faranak Miraftab and Ken Salo (2009–10)
  • Urban Livelihoods in Africa, Faculty Fellows in Service, Public Service Center, Cornell (2006–07)

Exhibitions and Presentations (selected)

  • Trash Talk: the Messy Business of Theorizing NGOs, Urban Civil Society, and the State, Political and Cultural Expressions of Indian Democracy, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2010)
  • The Challenge of Urban Planning in India, National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NITK-K), Suratkal, India (2010)
  • Mapping Mangalore: Commodities, Cityspace, and Citizenship, Indian City: State, Space, and Citizenship in the Global Era, Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata and the University of Michigan at Kolkata, India (2010)

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