Research Activities
Niche areas of Research
Guru Ramdas School of Planning has been engaged in research in the thrust areas in the domain of urban and regional planning. In context of the urban, the focus has been on all aspects of sustainable urban planning and development. As such urban housing, informality in cities, transportation planning and management, landuse conversions and conformity, urban heritage conservation, landscape planning and design, neighbourhood and site planning, urban environmental planning, urban governance, privatized models in spatial development, infrastructure provision, peri-urban development and related themes have been the subjects of research. Besides being urban centric, the research endeavours have also targeted the regional and the rural spatial context with themes around Rurban planning and development, regional planning, district and block plans, regional infrastructure development, village upgradation, ecological preservation and environment improvement in regional settings, regional transportation networks, regional settlement hierarchies, climate change and adaptation, disaster and risk management. The research initiatives of the department have been documented and published across national and international journals.