Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements

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Andrew Kirby, Arizona State University, Tempe, USAErhard Friedberg, Sciences Po-Paris, Paris, FranceRana P. B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IndiaKongjian Yu, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaMohamed El Sioufi, UN-Habitat, Nairobi, KenyaTim Campbell, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, USAYoshitsugu Hayashi, Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan

This Series focuses on the entire spectrum of human settlements—from rural tourban, in different regions of the world, with questions such as: What factors causeand guide the process of change in human settlements from rural to urban incharacter, from hamlets and villages to towns, cities and megacities? Is this processdifferent across time and space, how and why? Is there a future for rural life? Is itpossible or not to have industrial development in rural settlements, and how? Whydoes ‘urban shrinkage’ occur? Are the rural areas urbanizing or is that urban areasare undergoing ‘ruralisation’ (in form of underserviced slums)? What are thechallenges faced by ‘mega urban regions’, and how they can be/are beingaddressed? What drives economic dynamism in human settlements? Is theurban-based economic growth paradigm the only answer to the quest forsustainable development, or is there an urgent need to balance between economicgrowth on one hand and ecosystem restoration and conservation on the other—forthe future sustainability of human habitats? How and what new technology ishelping to achieve sustainable development in human settlements? What sort ofchanges in the current planning, management and governance of human settlementsare needed to face the changing environment including the climate and increasingdisaster risks? What is the uniqueness of the new ‘socio-cultural spaces’ thatemerge in human settlements, and how they change over time? As rural settlementsbecome urban, are the new ‘urban spaces’ resulting in the loss of rural life and‘socio-cultural spaces’? What is leading the preservation of rural ‘socio-culturalspaces’ within the urbanizing world, and how? What is the emerging nature of therural-urban interface, and what factors influence it? What are the emergingperspectives that help understand the human-environment-culture complex throughthe study of human settlements and the related ecosystems, and how do theytransform our understanding of cultural landscapes and ‘waterscapes’ in the 21stCentury? What else is and/or likely to be new vis-à-vis human settlements—nowand in the future? The Series, therefore, welcomes contributions with freshcognitive perspectives to understand the new and emerging realities of the 21stCentury human settlements. Such perspectives will include a multidisciplinaryanalysis, constituting of the demographic, spatio-economic, environmental, tech-nological, and planning, management and governance lenses.

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EditorT. M. Vinod KumarKozhikode, KeralaIndia

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Foreword I

Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—A Western Pointof View

In his book, ‘Thank you for being late’, Thomas Friedman (2016) describes theWestern world as having both an epidemic of failing communities, as well as alsohaving a plenty of thriving ones—because of strong leaders at the local level. Hesuggests a redesign of our geopolitics and communities, with special attention to theplace of regional development.

The popular notion that America is a nation divided between two coastalmetropolitans that are supposedly thriving, pluralizing and globalizing, comparing avast interior where jobs have disappeared, drug addiction is endemic and everyoneis hoping Trump can bring back the 1950s, is mistaken. The big divide in Americais not between the coasts and the interior: it is between strong communities andweak communities. One can find weak ones along the coast and thriving ones inAppalachia. Yet, the model of urbanization over the past two decades has been farfrom ‘smart’.

Cities, communities and metropolitans are at the forefront of today’s economicchanges and development. In an absurd way, globalization has resurrected urbangovernments in the world. While many old recipes to boost urban economy hadtheir limits by benefiting only small groups, peer-to-peer markets, collectivelyknown as the sharing economy, have shaken these established models and disruptedtransportation, accommodation and an array of urban sectors. New bottom-upproposals, based on open participation and communal evaluation, are thriving withthe implicit commitment to increase equity, sustainability, resilience and diversity.This dynamic urban economic landscape grows on cities. Committed to the UN’sSustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these cities must grow into sustainablemetropolitans. Following a comprehensive review of smart metropolitans, this bookexamines whether this kind of regional development demands a more proactiveurban policy, to grasp emerging opportunities.

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According to former researches, smart and strong communities share a keyattribute: they have created diverse adaptive coalitions, translating—in real time—the skills demanded by the global economy. Metropolitans can leverage thesequalities by tapping local academia for talent and innovations that can diversifytheir economies and nurture unique local assets that would not go away. Localfoundations and civic groups step in to fund supplemental learning opportunities,and local governments help to catalyze it all.

Interestingly, success stories of smart metropolitans appear to be all bottom-up.Examples from Pittsburgh, USA; Johannesburg, South Africa; Gujarat, India; andStuttgart, Germany all portray the same pattern of a whole region that unites aroundone (or few) project(s), which create an adaptive coalition and attract investorsbased on the region’s strengths. These innovative coalitions promote smart grids,transportation's solutions, green industrial strategies and more to draw attention tothe power and necessity of regional development to maintain local solutions andstimulate the economy of the future.

Smart city definition, according to the new urban agenda, represents a sharedvision for a better and more sustainable future, and has been formally adopted bynational governments at Habitat III, on October 2016. Still, a smart city that pro-motes an energetic face-to-face communities and a vibrant urban economy is notenough. The city is not a computer. It must listen to all its people and communitiesand not only to those who have access to technology. The tactic must go hand inhand with strategy. While the strategy is the tool of the governance. The tactic is thetool of the citizens and their choice. Struggling with mass transit systems, educa-tion, sanitation and industrialization, metropolitans trying to leapfrog out of thesechallenges and catch up by engaging in a rapid digitization of their entire economy,transitioning energy to a decarbonized, digitized and decentralized system.

This ambitious project is a collection of inspiring stories about metropolitansrising to the challenges of growing population and incomplete infrastructures. Itdepicts the story of regions that developed extraordinary capabilities and arecoming together to help their citizens to acquire the skills and opportunities to livetheir own futures. In a world of limited resources, regions can get away from the‘take, make, dispose of’ model and capture the full potential of new economicparadigms, business models that based on circularity, such as circular supplies,resource recovery, product life extension, shared platforms and product as a service.Metropolitans can examine how this way of doing business can turn into the newnormal in the twenty-first century. Western metropolitans are already embracing thenewest technologies to increase efficiencies and bring down costs. Yet, they canonly reach their full potential when they become a better place to live. Growingquality of life requires a mature reflection on the evolution of urban developmentand how to harness technology to provide better services, empower people andbuild a better future for all.

The metropolitans’ stories presented here need to be shared. It is not anymore,the ‘smart’ meaning in which smart cities connected to efficiency in sort of a blindtechnological determinism, but huge urban projects with wide-ranging researchconclusions that should be implemented in other urban clusters worldwide.

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In today’s world, different regions are rising together to leverage their unique assetsto provide quality of life.

Employing unorthodox solutions to social challenges, instituting innovativesocial programmes, technical and managerial competence, accountability, trans-parency and citizens’ participation is regarded as a key factor to ensure sustainableprosperity. Regional Development promotes the thinking of a bottom-up andtop-down approach both. From a city perspective, it shall focus on building up aSmart Growth, Smart Environment, Smart Infrastructure, Smart Energy and SmartPeople.

From a Regional Perspective, it shall focus on Building Smart Connectivity andSmart Governance. In smart cities, citizens are taking an active part in the con-ception, design, steering and management of services. In the new smartmetropolitans, it is the responsibility of urban managers to ease the transition to aregional economy and to provide citizens with the opportunity for a new source ofwealth and well-being.

The space entrepreneur Elon Musk has forecasted that a city on Mars with amillion inhabitants could be achieved within 50 years. ‘Well, this is easy, building anew city from scratch to multi-planetary species without having to struggle withrapid population growth and unplanned development and numerous infrastructurechallenges…; however, this book on Smart Metropolitan Regional Development:Economic and Spatial Design Strategies’ required reading for a generation that isgoing to be asked to ‘play science fiction’. Think of it as a guide to thriving andbuilding resilience metropolitans in this age of global hurricanes, so spaceships toMars will turn empty…

Tel Aviv, Israel Dr. Yifat ReuveniCollers School of Management

Tel Aviv University

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Foreword II

Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—An AfricanPerspective

Today, about four out of ten (40.4% in 2015) or nearly half a billion of the Africanpopulation people lives in cities and towns. It is projected that the African urbanpopulation will reach about one billion in 2040. For over a century, a drastic changehas, indeed, taken place in the distribution of African population, with an accel-erated concentration in large urban agglomerations. Development of large urbanagglomerations provides opportunities for economies of scale and agglomeration,but also calls for large investments in infrastructures to respond to the increaseddemand for basic social, health, environment and economic services such as water,sanitation, solid management, energy, streets and public spaces, and mobility,among others. They also require efficient institutions for the management of theseservices, as well as, for the protection of people against violence and insecurity. Thejust-concluded Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) show that, despite pro-gress made towards sustainable urban development, two-thirds of African urbandwellers are still living in slums lacking either improved water, or improved san-itation, or durable housing or sufficient living area. Most of them also do not enjoysecurity of tenure.

Recognizing the unbalanced metropolitan regional development in Africa, andthe multiple problems associated with lack of basic services, many African gov-ernments have taken steps towards policies that transform the urban landscape asechoed in the SDG11 adopted in 2015, the New Urban Agenda adopted in 2016 andthe Africa Agenda 2063 adopted in 2014. The New Urban Agenda adopted inOctober 2016 in Quito encourages governments to commit themselves to adoptinga smart city approach that makes use of opportunities from digitalization, cleanenergy and technologies, as well as innovative transport technologies, thus pro-viding options for inhabitants to make more environmentally friendly choices andboost sustainable economic growth, and enabling cities to improve their service

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delivery (NUA, paragraph 66).1 Recognizing the crucial role ICT can play insustainable development, African Heads of States went further and created aholistic programme ‘Smart Africa’ in 2013. The programme aims to advanceAfrica’s development through ICT by 2025. Five principles are the pillars of theprogramme: (1) ICT at the centre of national socio-economic development agenda;(2) development of broadband; (3) use of ICT to improve accountability, efficiencyand openness; (4) private sector at the centre of economic development; and (5) useof ICT to promote sustainable development. African Heads of State are committedto put in place policies and regulatory environment that will foster partnerships,entrepreneurship, job creation and knowledge sharing. They recognize that ‘ICTshave the ability to level the global playing field, unlock human capital and harnessits full potential’.2

This publication ‘Smart Metropolitan Regional Development: Economic andSpatial Design Strategies’ featuring five African Cities: Conakry in Guinea, Nairobiin Kenya, Abuja in Nigeria, Dakar in Senegal and Johannesburg in South Africa,comes at an opportune time marked by political will to transform Africa urbandevelopment through the integration of ICT in planning, designing and managingcities. For the African cities included in this publication, a Smart MetropolitanRegional Development is viewed as a sustainable, inclusive, resilient and pros-perous metropolitan regional development agenda that promotes a people-centricapproach based on three core components—Smart Metropolitan RegionFoundation, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and SmartInstitutions and Laws. Infrastructure Development complements the basic infras-tructure services under each smart metropolitan foundation and extends to actualinvestment and advancement of services such as transport, ICT, industrial energy,education, health, etc. Environment Sustainability comprises elements of biodi-versity, climate change, waste management, energy, transport, building and pol-lution. Social Inclusion includes aspects of participation in decision-making, as wellas, equal opportunities for growth and prosperity. Social Development encompasseselements of education, health, public space, social inclusion and social capital.Disaster Exposure incorporates elements of mitigation and adaptation to variousdisasters such as flooding, droughts, storms and earthquakes. City Resilience iscomposed of elements of city foundation, environment, social capital and socialdevelopment. Peace and security include the elimination of all forms of discrimi-nation and violence and conflicts, including domestic violence, violence in publicplaces, crime, armed conflicts, terrorism, etc. An insecure metropolitan region limitsopportunities for investment and economic growth and cannot be a smartmetropolitan region.

The publication key findings are that the digital dividends are real and the Africametropolitan regional development must take the opportunity to efficiently integrate

1United Nations GA, October 2016. Draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference onHousing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).2https://smartafrica.org/.

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the use of ICT in all sectors of its development. From the beginning of thetwenty-first century, a digital citizenship, particularly the ‘Millennial’ generation,has started to emerge in Africa as in other regions. The rapid adoption of digitaltechnologies in the economy will have huge benefits both directly and indirectly.However, ICT alone will produce little in the smart metropolitan regional devel-opment. ‘Smart’ is not an end in itself; it is the way ICT is integrated into themetropolitan regional development that will determine the metropolitan regionsmartness. Maximizing the digital dividends requires better integration of ICTs withthe other factors of smart metropolitan regional development such as city founda-tion, institutions and laws, infrastructure development, economic development,environment sustainability, social development, disaster prevention, resilience,peace and security. ICT can be seen as substitution and catalyst factors, but theother factors specific to the urban context are crucial in making smart metropolitanregional development.

Firenze, Italy Priscilla Idele, Ph.D.Deputy Director, UNICEF Office

of Research–InnocentiPidele@unicef.org

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Contents

Part I Introduction

1 Smart Metropolitan Regional Development: Economicand Spatial Design Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3T. M. Vinod Kumar

Part II China, Hong Kong

2 Towards Smarter Regional Development of Hong KongWithin the Greater Bay Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Sujata S. Govada and Timothy Rodgers

Part III Germany, Stuttgart

3 Stuttgart Region—Sustainable Industrialization in StuttgartMetropolitan Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175Michael Hertwig, Joachim Lentes, Nikolas Zimmermannand Manfred Dangelmaier

Part IV Guinea, Conakry

4 Towards a Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—Spatialand Economic Design Strategies: Conakry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Gora Mboup, M. Ibrahima Camara, Nene Mariama Balde,Mustafa Sangare and Khalil Fofana

Part V India, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar

5 Smart Development of Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Twin CityMetropolitan Region, Gujarat, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313Jignesh G. Bhatt and Omkar K. Jani

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Part VI India, Bangalore

6 Towards a Smart Metropolitan Region: A Roadmap forTransforming Bangalore Metropolitan Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359Amit Chatterjee, Binayak Choudhary, Premjeet Das Guptaand Gaurav Vaidya

Part VII India, Chandigarh

7 Smart Chandigarh Tri-City Region: Spatial Strategies ofTransformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403Asfa Siddiqui, K. K. Kakkar, Suvankar Halder and Pramod Kumar

Part VIII India, Delhi

8 Actualizing Smart Regional Aspirations: A Case of the NationalCapital Region, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453Ashok Kumar

Part IX India, Jaipur

9 Smart Tourism Innovations for Smart Region, Case of JaipurMetropolitan Region, India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491Prabh Bedi, Neha Goel Tripathi and H. B. Singh

Part X India, Kozhikode

10 Smart Metropolitan Regional Development: Economic andSpatial Design Strategy for Kozhikode Metropolitan Region . . . . . 539T. M. Vinod Kumar, Namratha Radhakrishnan and Mohammed Firoz

Part XI India, Surat

11 Smarter Economic Opportunities for Surat MetropolitanRegion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621Bhasker Vijaykumar Bhatt, Leena Garg and Krupesh A. Chauhan

Part XII Italy, Naples

12 Spatial and Economic Smart Strategies for the 21st-CenturyMetropolitan City of Naples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665Antonio Caperna, Eleni Tracada, Guglielmo Minervino, Elina Alataloand Maria Cerreta

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Part XIII Kenya, Nairobi

13 Achieving Regional Development Through EnhancedConnectivity in the Nairobi Metropolitan Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759Daniel Githira, Romanus Opiyo and Dennis Mwaniki

Part XIV Nigeria, Abuja

14 Smart Metropolitan Regional Development of Abuja and ItsRegion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797Femi Olokesusi, Femi Ola Aiyegbajeje and Ibitayo Modupe Arije

Part XV Senegal, Dakar

15 Towards a Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—Spatialand Economic Design Strategies: Dakar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829Gora Mboup, Mame Cheikh Ngom, Cheikhou Baldeand Mandiaye Ndiaye

Part XVI South Africa, Johannesburg

16 Towards a Smart Metropolitan Regional Development—Spatialand Economic Design Strategies: Johannesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919Naledzani Mudau, Gora Mboup, Paida Mhangaraand Mfaniseni Sihlongonyane

Part XVII USA, Pittsburgh

17 Metropolitan Regional Scale Smart City Approaches in aShrinking City in the American Rust Belt—Case of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979Sudeshna Ghosh, Sweta Byahut and Calvin Masilela

Part XVIII Conclusion

18 International Collaborative Research: Smart MetropolitanRegional Development: Economic and Spatial Design Strategiesand Conclusions of Cities Case Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025T. M. Vinod Kumar

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Author Biographies

Prof. T. M. Vinod Kumar had 47 years of experience inUrban Planning, as teacher, researcher and adviser/consultant and worked in India, China, Bhutan, Nepal,Malaysia, Indonesia and Hawaii, USA. He was Dean ofStudies, Head of the Department of Urban Planning, HeadCentre for Systems Studies and Analysis, Centre for GISand Remote Sensing, and Centre for Urban Studies ofSchool of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; VisitingProfessor National Institute of Technology, Calicut, andInstitute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia andProfessional Associates, East West Resources SystemsInstitute Honolulu, Hawaii, Fellow Centre for the Study ofDeveloping Societies, Delhi, Project Manager in Councilfor Social Development, New Delhi, Regional ProgramCoordinator at the International Centre for IntegratedMountain Development (ICIMOD) and Planner-Engineerat the Ford Foundation. He is the author of many books andjournal articles. He edited ‘Geographic Information Systemfor Smart Cities’ (Copal:2014), ‘E Governance for SmartCities’ (Springer:2015), ‘Smart Economy in Smart Cities’(Springer:2016) and ‘E-Democracy for Smart Cities’(Springer:2017). He now edits and coordinates this inter-national project ‘Smart Metropolitan RegionalDevelopment’. E-mail: tmvinod@gmail.com.

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Dr. Femi Ola Aiyegbajeje is a Lecturer at theDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences,University of Lagos.Hewas formerly aTeachingAssistantand Academic Advisor (Geography) at the DistanceLearning Centre, University of Ibadan (2011–2016).Femi obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Master ofScience (M.Sc.) andDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degreesin Geography from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Hehas a few publications in form of peer-reviewed journalarticles, book chapters, monographs and conference pro-ceedings. He recently co-authored ‘Smart Economy inSmart Cities’ (2017: Springer), ‘E-Democracy for SmartCities’ (2017: Springer) and ‘Readings in HumanGeography’ (2017: University of Port-Harcourt Press).His research interest is in Human Geography withspecialization in Transport and CommunicationGeography, Medical Geography, Urban and RegionalDevelopment. E-mail: femidavid2002@yahoo.com.

Elina Alatalo graduated as an architect in 2009 byreacting to a blocked design task with a theoreticalreinterpretation resulting in a book Open SourceArchitecture—Johannesburg, South Africa. This led toworking and experimenting around the question of how todevelop cities with bottom-up open processes. She is oneof the initiators and facilitators of Finnish co-workingnetworkMushrooming (www.mushrooming.fi),which hasenabled both novel economical and spatial development inthe cities. Mushrooming has taught the importance of realface-to-face encounters and local informal interactionbeside smart technologies. Elina is currently working onher Ph.D. as part of a larger research consortium Dwellersin Agile Cities (www.agilecities.fi), in EnvironmentalPolicy of Tampere University, funded by Academy ofFinland Strategic Research Council. Consortium sees thatmotivations, knowledge and activities of dwellers arecentral in co-creating diverse and sustainable cities. Elinaenjoys teaching, and she is one of the editors of Versus—aforumof happenings andweb publication aiming to sustainacademic societal responsibility and discussions also inFinnish. E-mail: elina.alatalo@uta.fi.

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Ibitayo Modupe Arije obtained a B.Sc. in Economicsfrom the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and M.Sc. inEnvironmental Management from Coventry University,United Kingdom. With research and career interestscentred on Sustainable Urban Development; she cur-rently works as a research assistant to the leadconsultant to the UN-Habitat in Nigeria. Ibitayo hasactively contributed to the Global State of the UrbanYouth Report 2015/2016: Urban Equity and YouthDevelopment. She presented the Nigerian componentof the report at the Asian Urban Youth Assembly,Melaka, Malaysia in March 2017. E-mail:arije_tayo@yahoo.com.

Cheikhou Balde is an Urban Planner graduated fromthe Institute ofUrbanism of Paris (France) andUniversityof Gaston Berger of Saint Louis (Senegal). Mr. Baldealso holds a Post-Master Degree from theUNESCO CHAIR on Integrated Management andSustainable Development. He has been carrying outmanymissions for 16 years as Urban Planner Expert. Hismain focus areas of interest are urban planning, spatialplanning, land issues and resettlement procedures, envi-ronment, etc. For a decade, Mr. Balde contributesactively, in the framework of projects initiated by thegovernment of Senegal such as: Program ofReinforcement and Equipment of Local Communities(PRECOL), ProgramofActions for the Safeguarding andUrban Development of “Niayes” and green areas ofDakar (PASDUNE), Land Use Reconversion Program(PROSOL). As Senior Urban Planning Consultant of theMunicipal Development Agency, Mr. Balde participatesin the implementation of the multi-sectorial governmentproject “the Stormwater Management and ClimateChange Adaptation Project (PROGEP)”, officiallylaunched in November 2012 with a five year term(2013–2019). The PROGEP consists of four componentsthat are: ComponentA “FloodRiskMainstreaming in theUrban Sector”; Component B “Drainage Investment andManagement”; Component C “Community Engagementin Urban Flood Risk Reduction and Adaptation toClimate Change”; and Component D “ProjectCoordination, Management, Monitoring andEvaluation”. Under the PROGEP, Mr. Balde also

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oversees the Senegalese ambitious initiative“Sustainable City Initiative” supported by the GlobalEnvironment Facility (GEF), the World Bank andUNIDO; it consists of integrating climate change inurban planning, design and management. E-mail:cheikhou.balde@gmail.com.

Ms. Nene Mariama Balde holds a Master degree inUrban Planning and Territorial Management from theBall State University (USA). She is also graduated inGeography from the University of Conakry (Guinea)and in Basic Infrastructures and EnvironmentalManagement from the Institute for Housing and UrbanDevelopment Studies (Netherlands). Since 2014,Ms. Balde is the Deputy Director of the Department ofTerritorial and Urban Planning at the City andTerritorial Management Ministry of the Republic ofGuinea. Prior to that, from 2006 to 2014, she wasSr. Consultant for the preparation of the NationalHousing Policy Vision 2021 of Guinea. From 2004 to2006, she was the Deputy Director at the CityObservatory. From 2002 to 2004, Ms. Balde was theNational Director of Office for Studies and Strategiesof the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing.She has been also consultant of several internationalorganizations including the UNDP and UNFPA for thefollowing projects: “Evaluation of the integration ofclimate change resilience into spatial planning instru-ments” (2013–2014); Support at the formulation of theNational Housing Policy of Guinea (2008–2012);“Evaluation of National Population Policy—Component Urban Management”; and “Evaluationof the Goals of the Millennium Development Goals—Component Urbanization and Sanitation” (2004–2006).E-mail: baldette@yahoo.com.

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Dr. Prabh Bedi is a Geographer, Urban and RegionalPlanner and Geospatial Technology expert. She com-pleted her Post Baccalaureate Certificate in GeographicInformation Systems from Pennsylvania StateUniversity, USA. She graduated from School ofPlanning and Architecture, New Delhi (India) withMaster of Planning. Having over 20 years of experiencein planning and geospatial technologies, she is theFounding Director of Nipun Planners and InfrastructurePvt. Ltd., India. She serves as advisor on environmentand micro-planning projects with Allianz EngineeringTechnology Corp, Cali Colombia. She has been visitingfaculty since 2002 at School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi and other architecture andplanning institutes around Delhi. She has publishedarticles on NUIS, Smart Cities, urban greens andhydrology in the context of sustainability. Her researchinterests include information systems, geospatial tech-nologies, NUIS, smart cities, demography, hydrologyand climate change. E-mail: prabhb@gmail.com.

Bhasker Vijaykumar Bhatt is an Engineer TownPlanner and presently serving as a PG in charge (METCP) and Assistant Professor in Civil EngineeringDepartment of Sarvajanik College of Engineering andTechnology—SCET, Surat. He completed his masters intown planning with a research on Road Safety Audit atSVNIT, Surat. He possesses excellent academic recordsand awarded with several Gold Medals during Diploma,Degree and Postgraduate studies. He provided hisservices in the field of consultancy at national as wellas international level. Research areas of him includeRoad Safety, Urban Planning, Infrastructure Planning,Statistical Analysis Techniques, GIS and ClimateChange effects in urban areas. He at present is a researchscholar and exploring climate change effects interveningurban planning and development. He is activelyassociated with several professional organizations andserving various prestigious posts for better interactionamong educational, engineering and planning fraternity.He has more than 6 years’ experience in technicalconsultancy and about 6 years of engineering teaching.He has guided about 21 PG Dissertations and 10+ UGprojects as well as a few AMIE projects. Towards

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continuous upgradations of skills and technologicaladvancements, he has attempted 50+ events consistingof workshops, training programmes, seminars, conven-tions and symposiums. He frequently organizes eventsfor students and faculty members that ignite activeacademic upgradations and industrial interaction. He haspublished more than 45 technical research papers inconferences and journals. All his works are availableonline for reference along with projects and dissertationreports. Professor Bhasker is a recipient of ‘BestSection Management Committee Member of ISTEGujarat Section 2015’ with efforts going on. Alongwith ISTE Gujarat section, he is Hon. Treasurer for theInstitute of Urban Transport (India) SVNIT RegionalChapter as well as serving as a Hon. Joint Secretaryof the Institution of Engineers (India) South GujaratLocal Centre, a Managing Committee Member for theInstitute of Civil Engineers & Architects (ICEA), Surat.He is chairing a number of committees at his institutesuch as GIC Committee Convener, SCETmate newslet-ter committee convener, Design EngineeringCoordinator and PMMS Coordinator, to name a few.Also, he was honoured by ‘Pedagogical InnovationAward 2015’ by the GTU for his efforts and contribu-tions in engineering education. At the GTU, he was a‘Master Trainer for Faculty Development Programs’conducted at the University wherein he trained 350+teachers of diverse engineering discipline. 1500+ stu-dents have attended his sessions on Design Thinkingapproach that ignites the engineering insights andmotivates the engineering brain to increase capabilities,drastically. He was also awarded as ‘Best Club Secretary2012–13 (Large clubs)’ for serving Rotary Club ofSurat. He an active Member of the Rotary Internationalsince 2005. Recently, he has been active with StartupWeekend Surat (powered by Google Inc.) as a trainer.He has developed his own learning portal, www.bvbhatt.com. E-mail: er.bhasker@gmail.com.

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Prof. Jignesh G. Bhatt received B.E. (Instrumentationand Control Engineering), Gujarat University, India,1997 and M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering,Specialization: Measurement & Instrumentation) fromIIT Roorkee, India, 2010. He acquired industrialexperience in Managerial Positions during 1997–1999. Post industrial experience in managerial positionsduring 1997–1999, since 2000, he has been currentlyserving Dharmsinh Desai University (DDU), India asSr. Assistant Professor (Instrumentation and ControlEngineering Department). He served as Coordinatorand Principal Investigator for Govt. SponsoredResearch and Community Development Projects, PGThesis Supervisor, Invited Expert-Session Chair inConferences and Journal Reviewer-Editorial BoardMember. His research interests include Automation,e-Governance, e-Learning, Instrumentation, Smart City,Smart Grid, Solar City, Solar Energy and WirelessSensor Networks. E-mail: jigneshgbhatt@gmail.com.

Dr. Sweta Byahut is a teacher in the CommunityPlanning Program at Auburn University. She earned aPh.D. in Regional Development Planning from theUniversity of Cincinnati. Her research focuses onimproving urban land management, spatial planningpractices and development regulation in Indian cities. Inthe US, she works on issues of urban sustainability,examining the influence of land use characteristics ontravel behaviour, and the impact of environmental andopen space amenities. Before joining academia,Dr. Byahut has a decade-long experience as an urbanplanner in India in consulting and applied research,spanning areas such as planning legislation and policy,development regulation, comprehensive/urban develop-ment plans, post disaster reconstruction planning andurban revitalization. E-mail: sweta.byahut@auburn.edu.

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M. Ibrahima Camara is a Civil Engineer in BridgeConstruction, Urban Planning and Urban Studies from thePolytechnic Institute of the University of Conakry in 1996.He also holds a post-graduate certificate on IntegratedUrban Planning from Sweden and India where he focuseshis research project on “Restructuring InformalSettlements in Guinea”. Since 2011, M. Camara has beenthe National Director of Territorial and Urban Planning,and Roads and Infrastructures of the City and TerritorialManagement Ministry of the Republic of Guinea. From2011 to 2014, he also was the Coordinator of the Project“Autonomous Sanitation of selected neighbourhoods inConakry”. Since 2011, he has been the Coordinator of theProject “Waste water Management of Moussoudougou”with financial support of the Government of Guinea andthe Arab Bank for the Economic Development in Africa.Prior to that, from 2005 to 2011, M. Camara was the Chiefof Section “Urban Restructuring” at General Mission forUrban Development (MGDU (DATU)/MUH).M. Camara has also been Sr. Consultant with severalinternational firms: 2007–2011, Chief of Mission for theMonitoring of the civil engineering component of theExtension of the Network of the TelecommunicationCompany INTERCEL; 2010, Mission in Sierra Leone forthe diagnostic and evaluation of the Freetown urban roadnetwork; 2006–2007, Chief of Mission for the Monitoringof the sanitation and road network project in Conakryimplemented by the companies EGCEL, ECOTEL andSERICOM. E-mail: ibrahimacamara@gmail.com, ibrahi-macamara@yahoo.fr.

Antonio Caperna Head of International Society ofBiourbanism (ISB), Graduated from the Faculty ofArchitecture in Naples, Antonio has been awarded aPh.D. in Sustainability and Urban Environment fromRoma Tre University. He had previously taught‘Architectural Technology’ and ‘Land and CityAnalysis’ at Faculty of Architecture, University ofRome ‘La Sapienza’ and Sustainable Urban Design atMaster course in Sustainable Interactive Design andMultimedia at RomaTreUniversity. His latest researchis mainly oriented to the emergent field of Biourbanismand to the application of complexity theory, evolutionarybiology, Biophilia and Morphogenesis to define

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procedure/process and tools for a human-oriented archi-tecture and urbanism. E-mail: antonio.caperna@biour-banism.org.

Maria Cerreta graduated in Architecture, Universityof Naples Federico II, Ph.D. in ‘Evaluation Methods forthe Integrated Conservation of Architecture, Urban andEnvironmental Heritage’. She is Director of theAdvanced Course in ‘Real Estate Market and UrbanRegeneration’, Coordinator of the Second Level Masterin ‘Planning and Sustainable Design of the Port Areas’,and member of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture,DiARC, University of Naples ‘Federico II’. She hasbeen senior researcher and coordinator of researchprojects and is actually involved in EU project Horizon2020 ‘REsource Management in Peri-urban Areas:Going Beyond Urban Metabolism’ (REPAiR). She isalso the author of several papers and editor of a bookwith Springer. Her research work is mainly oriented tohybrid assessment of sustainability issues, Multi-CriteriaAnalysis and Multi-Group Analysis in collaborative andinteractive decision-making processes for urban designand spatial planning. E-mail: maria.cerreta@unina.it.

Dr. Amit Chatterjee an Urban and Regional Plannerwrote his doctoral dissertation on urban sustainability ofGreater Mumbai and its satellite towns. Dr. Amit has acombined experience of more than a decade in teaching,research and industry and presently on the faculty ofPlanning, School of Planning and Architecture (SPA),Bhopal as Assistant Professor. Before joining aca-demics, Dr. Chatterjee served the industry in variouscapacities. As principal investigator, Dr. Chatterjee wasinvolved in different international collaborative researchprojects, namely, Co-benefits of Waste Management,Collaborating for Climate, UK-India CapacityDevelopment project for Climate Change and CarbonManagement, etc. Dr. Amit is currently involved in twoof the research and consultancy projects: ‘Shelter forAll’ and Seven Cluster Development Plans underNational Rurban Mission. In academics, his researchinterest is primarily focused on future cities, urbansustainability models and climate change. Besidesattending seminars at national and internationallevel, Dr. Chatterjee contributes papers, book chapters

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to reputed international journals in planning.Dr. Chatterjee edited 11th Issue of InternationalJournal of SPA, Bhopal ‘SPANDREL’ (Masking citiesSmart and Competitive) and currently working on abook focused on Metropolitan Planning andDevelopment. E-mail: amit.chatterjee@spabhopal.ac.in.

Dr. Krupesh A. Chauhan is serving as an AssociateProfessor and SectionHead inUrban Planning Section ofCED, SVNIT, Surat. He got his Master’s in WaterResources Engineering and Town and Country Planningfrom South Gujarat University. He got his Ph.D. in CivilEngineering from SGU. He has field experience of 13+years and teaching experience of 19+ years. His areas ofinterest area Traffic and Transportation planning,Housing, Infrastructure planning and management, etc.His special interests go along fusion of modern andancient house planning techniques that include VastuShastra. He has published more than 20 InternationalJournal papers and more than 40 conferences attended.He has guided several PGdissertation researches in urbanplanning. He also has co-authored book chapters andpublications. He has guided two Ph.D. scholars andguiding six academic research scholars pursuing doctoralstudies. As a guide, he is serving universities of SVNITand GTU. He is a member of many professionalorganizations and has been serving on various posts.He has been involved in prestigious assignments by theState and Central Government such as PMGSY, SmartVillage Development, Housing for all and Unnat BharatAbhiyan, to name a few. E-mail: kac3srb@gmail.com.

Prof. Binayak Choudhary holds a Master’s inEconomics with specialization in MathematicalEconomics and Econometrics. He graduated in RegionalPlanning from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpurand wrote his doctoral dissertation on RegionalEconomics. Currently, Binayak is Professor of Planningand Dean (Research and Development) at School ofPlanning and Architecture, Bhopal (SPAB). His researchareas include urban and regional economics, urban gov-ernance and finance and quantitative techniques in plan-ning. Professor Binayak is on different committees acrossvarious planning schools of India. He supervises/evaluates

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dissertation at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levelboth at SPAB and other national planning schools. Hecontributes papers to international/national journals andconferences and is on the editorial board/ reviewer ofnational and international journals. He carries three-decadelong experience in urban planning, development andmanagement in various capacities across various institu-tions in different parts of India. E-mail: binayak@spab-hopal.ac.in.

Dr. Ing. Manfred Dangelmaier studied mechanicalengineering at the University of Stuttgart. After grad-uating as an engineer, he joined the Fraunhofer IAO in1985 for research and development projects in the fieldof ergonomics. He received his doctorate in 2001 withthe topic: “Amethod for the ergonomic evaluation of thedriver place in passenger cars”. From 2000 to 2001, heset up the Vehicle Interaction Lab at IAO to studyhuman-vehicle interaction using driving simulation.From 2001 he headed the Virtual EnvironmentsCompetence Center and coordinated national and inter-national collaborative research projects focusing on thedevelopment of application areas for virtual environ-ments in the engineering of products, productionsystems, buildings and services. Since 2009 he hasbeen Director of the Engineering Systems business unitwith the Virtual Environments, Visual Technologies,Digital Engineering and Human Factors Engineeringteams. Manfred Dangelmaier publishes in the fields ofergonomics, human-machine interaction, digital productdevelopment and virtual and extended reality. Heteaches Virtual Engineering at the University ofStuttgart and Virtual Product Design at the TechnicalUniversity of Cluj-Napoca. www.iao.fraunhofer.de.E-mail: manfred.dangelmaier@iao.fraunhofer.de.

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Dr. Mohammed Firoz is an architect and urbanplanner by profession. He holds a Ph.D. degree fromIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Post-graduation in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPTUniversity and B.Arch. degree from NIT Calicut forwhich he was as a university rank holder. He has beeninvolved in teaching, researching and consulting at NITCalicut since July 2004. He was also engaged as a visitingteacher at the Architectural Association London (AALondon) for the term May–June 2015. His field of interestincludes rural-urban interface studies, sustainable designand planning, regional development and planning, etc.E-mail: firoz@nitc.ac.in.

Khalil Fofana is a partner with GORA Corp andcurrently working on the Conakry Smart City Project. Hewas Senior National Coordinator since January 2014 atLoblaw/Pharmaprix in the Design & Construction depart-ment in Toronto. Canada. Khalil is an accomplishedsenior executive who has accumulated multiple strategic,logistical and customer service achievements at theToronto Operations Control Center over the course ofmore than 10 years at Bell Canada, Bell Satellite TV,IPTV and Fiber Optic TV and high-speed Internet inCanada. He began his professional career in the financeindustry where he gained a solid experience in this field.First as a Consultant in Individual and Corporate WealthManagement at Investors Group in Montreal in 2000, thenas Financial Analyst with the launch of the Tontine of theAstral Finance Mutual (AXA) in Strasbourg (France) andas Senior Analyst Personal Credit and Businesses at CitiBank Masters Cards Canada in Toronto. He has alwaysevolved as a team through the execution of tasks andinitiatives to achieve business objectives, streamlineprocesses, reduce costs in order to improve customersatisfaction Customers and partners. He holds aBachelor’s degree in Business Administration from theQuébec university in Montréal (UQAM), a Prince 2Project Management Certificate and an active memberof the Project Management Institute (PMI). E-mail:khalilfof@gmail.com.

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Dr. Leena Garg is an architect planner and a teacher.She completed her Graduation in Architecture fromM.S.U. Baroda (1990) with First class, Post-Graduation(Master in Town and Regional Planning) batch topperfrom S.V.N.I.T. Surat (2004), and Ph.D. from S.V.N.I.T.Surat in Town Planning (2017). During her scholarstudies, she explored housing settlement patterns in theexpanding fringe area of a fast-growing metropolitan. Sheis having more than 26 years of industry and teachingexperience. She is currently working as Principal atMahavir Swami Institute of Architecture (BMEF Surat),besides actively working as volunteer in various socialservice activities and NGOs. She has written over 22papers for various national and state level conferenceproceedings conducted all over India, mainly focused ontown planning, transportation planning, gender issuesrelated to urban governance, architecture and environmen-tal issues. She has explored statistical techniques as well asspatial modelling tools for carrying out interventions basedon researches in past. Around four publications inInternational Journals, notable being ‘Development ofAccessibility Index for Newly Expanded City Areas inFuzzy Framework: A Case Study’—a paper presented andpublished in International Journal in the internationalconference (ICTLE 2012) held during 28–29 April 2012 atChennai, India (pp. 173–176, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2012,ISSN 1793-8236); and ‘Temporal Residential SettlementModeling for Recently Expanded Zones: A Case Study InGujarat, India’ (ITES Conference–2012) InternationalConference on Innovative Technologies in Engineeringand Sciences, held during 22–23 December 2012 pub-lished in the Journal: IJSC, International Journal ofScientific Computing (pp. 75–79, Vol. 6, No. 2, July–December 2012, ISSN: 0973-578X) held at Rajkot, India.E-mail: leenagarg.1990@gmail.com.

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Daniel Githira M.Sc. is an urban planner with interestin geographic information management, urban growthmodelling and research. He holds a Master of Sciencedegree in Geo-information Science and Earth observa-tion from the University of Twente (ITC, Netherlands)and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban and RegionalPlanning from the University of Nairobi. For over 8years, he has worked as a consultant spatial planner forthe national government, private organizations,non-governmental organizations, particularly on refu-gee camp settlement planning. Currently, he is aconsultant GIS trainer, a researcher, and a planningconsultant working for the County Government of TaitaTaveta in Kenya. He has membership in the two mainprofessional bodies regulating spatial planning inKenya: the Kenya Institute of Planners (KIP) and theArchitectural Association of Kenya (AAK). E-mail:dangithira@gmail.com.

Dr. Sudeshna Ghosh is Assistant Professor of RegionalPlanning, in the Department of Geography and RegionalPlanning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Ghosh is a scholar in the areasof urban and regional planning, community developmentplanning, land use planning and planning in the develop-ing world. She teaches planning history, global cities,planning methods and seminar courses. She also orga-nizes study abroad courses in India, intended to exploreurbanization issues in contemporary Indian cities. She gother training in architecture and urban planning in Kolkataand Kharagpur (India), and completed her doctoral studiesfrom University of Cincinnati prior to joining IUP. Shereceived several small grants for her research work in theareas of small town economic development in the US andissues of urban poor and slum settlements in thedeveloping world. E-mail: Sudeshna.Ghosh@iup.edu.

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Dr. Sujata S. Govada is an award-winning qualifiedurban designer, certified town planner and a registeredarchitect in India, with over 35 years of diverseinternational experience in Hong Kong, PRC, India,Philippines and the United States working on design andplanning projects. She is the Founding Director of theInstitute of Sustainable Urbanisation and the FoundingandManaging Director of UDP International, a boutiqueglobal practice. Her expertise and research interestsinclude sustainable urbanization, smart city develop-ment, transit and people-oriented development, har-bourfront planning, new town development, urbanrenewal, heritage conservation, affordable housing andcommunity engagement. She is an Adjunct AssociateProfessor at the School of Architecture, ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong and previously taught in theurban planning and urban design programmes at TheUniversity of Hong Kong. She is a Global Trustee of theUrban Land Institute (ULI) and the Founding VicePresident of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Designand Past President of theAmerican Institute of ArchitectsHong Kong Chapter. E-mail: sujata@udpcltd.com.

Premjeet Das Gupta is an Architect and UrbanPlanner teaching as Assistant Professor in School ofPlanning & Architecture, Bhopal. He has around 12years of combined professional and academic experi-ence. He has been a part of the DFID-funded KUSPprogramme in West Bengal from 2005 to 2007.Between 2007 and 2009, he worked in a consultingrole with the firms within the ICICI Bank and IL&FSgroups. He was an Assistant Planner with KolkataMetropolitan Development Authority from 2009 to2013 during which he was involved with transportationand PPP projects. At present, he is involved in researchon Non-Motorized Transport in urban peripheries.E-mail: premjeet@spabhopal.ac.in.

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Suvankar Halder has completed his Master’s degreein Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System(RS & GIS) from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing(IIRS) with specialization in Urban and RegionalStudies and Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning(B.Planning) from School of Planning andArchitecture, Vijayawada. Suvankar is currently work-ing on Air Pollution Modelling to estimate the ambientconcentration of air pollutants. The project focuses onestimating transport emissions using modellingapproach and remote sensing techniques. His researchinterests lie in the field of Urban and Regional Studies,exploring human–environment interaction and its con-tribution to climate change, air pollution modelling,urban transportation planning and network analysis.E-mail: haldersuvankar02@gmail.com.

Michael Hertwig is working as a researcher atUniversity of Stuttgart. His major research fields aredevelopment of suitable IT support of productionprocesses and the procedure development for manu-facturing in urban environments. Additional, he isdoing research in the field of ‘urban manufacturing’ and‘holistic development of manufacturing in context ofurban areas’. He is planning to do his Ph.D. in thisresearch field. In 2008, he graduated in productiontechnology at the University of Combined Studies,Thuringia. In 2013, he was awarded a Diploma inMechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart.He is a member of the association of German engineers(VDI). Based on his expertise, he was invited to be onthe committee of the initiative ‘VDI STADT:DENKEN’. He is contributing to different conferencespresenting the current state of research in the field ofurban manufacturing. E-mail: michael.hertwig@iat.uni-stuttgart.de.

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Dr. Priscilla Idele has more 25 years of research in thefield of population, health and development in theAfrica region and around the globe. After more than 12years with UNICEF Headquarters (New York) invarious senior positions, Dr. Idele was appointed in2017 as the Deputy Director of the UNICEF Office ofResearch-Innocenti, Florence, Italy. Her responsibilitiesinclude the following: research, planning and monitor-ing; oversight of strategic partnerships, donor andexternal relations; resource mobilization; coordinationand facilitation of selected research activities; anddissemination of research results. Prior to her currentposition, Dr. Idele had served UNICEF in variouscapacities as Chief, Data Analysis Unit, Data andAnalytics Section; Chief, Planning and Monitoring,UNICEF Zimbabwe Country Office; and SeniorAdvisor for Statistics & Monitoring, Data &Analytics Section. Prior to joining UNICEF, she wasa Senior M&E Expert with the USAID fundedMEASURE Evaluation Project from 2000 to 2005. In2003, she was a consultant with the UN-Habitat for thedevelopment of slum indicators use to monitor theMillennium Development Goals Slum Target asreported to the United Nations MDG report 2004.Dr. Idele has authored several books and articles inpeer-reviewed journals on health, HIV/AIDS, popula-tion dynamics and other social and urban issues. Shewon various awards in the field of research on healthand development. She is also a co-author in theforthcoming book ‘Smart Economy in SmartAfrican Cities’. Dr. Priscilla Idele holds a Ph.D. inSocial Statistics from Southampton University (UnitedKingdom), Master’s degree in Population Studies fromNairobi University (Kenya), and B.Ed. in BusinessEducation from Kenyatta University (Kenya). E-mail:Pidele@unicef.org.

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Dr. Omkar K. Jani is currently the Principal ResearchScientist (Solar Energy) at Gujarat Energy Researchand Management Institute (GERMI). His primary goalsinclude advisory for various solar-related governmentand private initiatives, developing and undertakingfundamental and applied research, and capacity build-ing. Dr. Jani is a Member of the State AdvisoryCommittee of the Gujarat Electricity RegulatoryCommission. He is also an advisor to severalclean-tech companies and NGOs. Dr. Jani receivedhis Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from GeorgiaInstitute of Technology with specialization in SolarPhotovoltaic Science and Engineering, and his post-doctoral fellowship from the Institute of EnergyConversion, Delaware. E-mail: omkar.j@germi.res.in.

Col K. K. Kakkar was born on 13 June 1965 inJodhpur, Rajasthan. After completing his post-graduationin Mathematics from Punjab University Chandigarh, hejoined the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, and wascommissioned into the Regiment of Artillery in December1989. The officer received his second PG degree in M.Sc.Tech (Weapons Systems) in 2000 from Pune University.His thirst for newer areas of technology earned him histhird Master’s in Science (Information Technology) fromPunjab Technical University, Jalandhar (Punjab) in March2005. In 2011, he took 2 years study leave to completeM. Tech in Remote Sensing and GIS from IIRS Dehradunwith specialization in Urban and Regional studies, wherehis thesis on Greater Chandigarh Region was recognizedas a benchmark in geospatial technologies as applicable inthe field of Urban and Regional Planning. He continues tobe a strong votary of applying Geospatial technology forproblem-solving even after his retirement in 2017 and tothat effect, is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in RemoteSensing engineering from PEC (deemed to be University),Chandigarh. E-mail: kewalkakkar@gmail.com.

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Prof. Ashok Kumar, Ph.D. is working as a Professor inthe School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi since1993. His research interests include Inclusive CityPlanning, Spatial Justice and Planning Epistemologies.He has published nearly 100 papers in national andinternational refereed journals, written and edited eightbooks, and published 18 book chapters. He is the Editorof the ITPI Journal since 2002. A co-authored chapter hasbeen published in the prestigious The RoutledgeHandbook of Planning Theory in 2017. Currently, Prof.Kumar is working on a co-authored book manuscript on‘City Planning in India’ under contract with Routledge,which is expected to be published in mid-2018. E-mail:a.kumar@spa.ac.in.

Pramod Kumar is the Head, of the Urban and RegionalStudies Department, at the Indian Institute of RemoteSensing, Dehradun, India. He is also the Group Head ofProgramme Planning and Evaluation Group of IIRS. He isan alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur, India and joined IndianSpace Research Organization in 1991. Earlier, he hasworked as Assistant Engineer at CES, New Delhi. He hasbeen involved in more than 50 national level/technologydemonstration and research projects using geospatial dataand techniques to evolve solutions for natural resourcesmanagement and brought out technical reports andresearch publications. He has published more than 40papers in journals and conference proceedings and manytechnical reports. He is the recipient of ISRO TeamExcellence Awards for two projects. At present, he hasresearch interests in urban water utilities and urbanhydrology. E-mail: pramod@iirs.gov.in.

Joachim Lentes is Head of Department and Memberof the Management Board at the Fraunhofer Institutefor Industrial Engineering IAO and Lecturer forMathematical Methods for Production Planning at theUniversity of Stuttgart. He acts as reviewer forinternational conferences and journals likeInternational Journal for Production Research andInternational Journal for Production Economics as wellas for governments. His main research areas are theintegrated engineering of products and productionsystems as well as strategies for next-generation

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development and production as they can be summarizedas Industry 4.0 and urban manufacturing, a field where heis active since 2011. E-mail: joachim.lentes@iao.fraun-hofer.de.

Dr. Calvin Masilela is Professor of Geography andRegional Planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,USA. He also serves as Program Director, Bachelor ofScience in Regional Planning, and Program Directorof the Upward Bound Math and Science Program. Hisscholarly works on planning education, land reform, landuse, development and urbanization issues have appearedin African Geographical Review, Habitat International,Journal of Geography, Planning and Environment B,Small Town, The Third World Planning Review, ThePennsylvania Geographer and Regional DevelopmentDialogue. His most recent work, a book chapter on urbanagriculture, has been accepted for publication by TheWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and RegionalStudies. E-mail: Calvin.Masilela@iup.edu.

Dr. Gora Mboup is the President and CEO of GORACorp after more than 25 years of international devel-opment experience as a coordinator of the Demographicand Health Survey Programme of USAID for 10 years,and as a Senior Demographer and the Chief of theGlobal Urban Observatory, United Nations HumanSettlements Programme (UN-Habitat) for another 10years. In June 2014, UN-Habitat honoured Gora with aplaque “in recognition of ten years of distinguished anddedicated service to the United Nations”. GORA Corphas signed several MoUs with international partners toadvance sustainable, inclusive, resilient, and prosperoussmart cities: the Arab Urban Development Institute(AUDI) in 2017, UN-Habitat in 2016, the Ministry ofUrban Development of India in 2015, etc. Goraco-authored the book “Smart Economy in SmartCities” published in September 2016 by Springer. Heis presently coordinating the book project “SmartEconomy in Smart African Cities” covering 30–50African cities to be published by Springer in the first

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quarter of the year 2018. During his tenure withUN-Habitat, Gora authored a landmark urban planningand mobility book “Street as Public Spaces and Driversof Urban Prosperity” in 2013 and four series of theState of World Cities: (1) SWCR 2012/13—Prosperityof Cities; (2) SWCR 2010/11—Bridging the UrbanDivide; (3) SWCR 2008/09—Harmonious Cities;(4) SWCR 2006/30—Thirty of the Habitat Agenda.Since 2015, Gora collaborated with UN-Habitat in themonitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) 11 as well as in the Monitoring of theSecurity of Tenure. Since December 2016, Gora hasalso been an International Consultant of the AfricaTransport Policy Program (SSATP) with the WorldBank. He was also external member of the TechnicalAdvisory Group of the Global Environment Facility(GEF)’s Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP). He wasalso panellist at the Inter-Ministerial panel at theAfrican Union First meeting on FinancingInfrastructure Programmes in Africa held in Togo inMarch 2017. Since September 2017, Gora is alsoassisting the United Nations Economic Commission forAfrica (UNECA), UN-Habitat and the African Unionon the Harmonized Monitoring Framework and theRegional Action Framework for the New UrbanAgenda. Gora has also been an International consultantof the Senegal Sustainable Cities Initiative for theWorld Bank and the Government of Senegal. Gora is aSenior Fellow of the Global City Institute (GCI) of theUniversity of Toronto and provides public lectures inseveral universities such as London School ofEconomics (UK), Columbia University, University(USA) of Twente (ITC, The Netherlands) and RoyalInstitute of Technology (Sweden). Gora holds a Ph.D.in Demography, a Master’s degree in Demography, aBachelor’s Degree in Statistics, a Bachelor’s Degree inEconomics and a first degree in Mathematics andPhysics. E-mail: gmboup@gora4people.org.

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Dr. Paida Mhangara is a Remote Sensing and GISprofessional by training and is currently employed as aManager for Research and Applications Developmentat the South African National Space Agency (SANSA)in the Earth Observation Directorate. Paida has exten-sive experience and expertise in remote sensing,geographical information systems and environmentalgeography. He has been a principal scientist and projectmanager on a number of international earth observationscience projects such as the FP7 projects, AMESD,TIGER, TIGER-Net, Garnet-e, EOPOWER andGeonetcab. Dr. Mhangara is currently a missionscientist responsible for co-leading the scientific pro-cess of defining technical specifications for a new SouthAfrican earth observation satellite code-namedEO-SAT1 which will be South Africa’s contributionto the African Resource Management Constellation.Paida is a member of many international scientificcommittees in earth observation such as thePROBA-Vegetation satellite International ScientificUser Committee, Landsat Ground Operators TechnicalWorking Group, SANSA Earth Observation MissionAdvisory Committee, and has participated in theCommittee of Earth Observation Satellites WorkingGroup on Capacity Building and Data Democracy andthe Global Human Settlements Layer Project. In May2014 was nominated as the representative for Africa tothe Global Remote Sensing Water Initiative scientificreview committee of the World Bank, WaterPartnership Program (WWP) to review the DraftRemote Sensing for Water Resources ManagementScoping Report. Within SANSA Paida is responsiblefor leading a team of scientists and plays a leading rolein initiating and managing all earth observationresearch and application development projects.E-mail: pmangara@sansa.org.za.

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Guglielmo Minervino is a Ph.D. student working ongenerative programmes for urban regeneration in historicalsettlements, a research part of the International DoctorateProgram in Urban Regeneration & Economic Development(IDP URED)—UniversitàMediterranea of Reggio Calabria—Italy. He is also Member of the International Society ofBiourbanism. He studied in Italy, UK and USA. Interestand experience in strategies and processes for asystemic urban development, participatory processes,community-based urban regeneration, Mediterraneanurbanism, placemaking, self-building and social inno-vation. E-mail: guglielmo.minervino@unirc.it.

Naledzani Mudau is a Remote Sensing Scientist at theSouth African National Space Agency. She graduated atthe University of Paris VI where she received hermaster’s degree in Remote Sensing. Naledzani devel-oped her interest in mapping and monitoring of humansettlements during the master’s scholarship applicationprocess where she was required to present a case study onthe application of remote sensing. After her M.Sc.graduation she landed her first job at the private companywhere she worked as a Remote Sensing Technicianresponsible for satellite image processing and GIS datacapturing. She thenmoved to a Council for Scientific andIndustrial Research where she advanced her imageprocessing and application development skills.Passionate about human settlements, Naledzani alsoworked at Eskom, as a Remote Sensing and GIS advisorwhere she introduced and managed development ofremote sensing applications to support planning andmaintenance of electricity infrastructure. She has sincebeen focusing on the use of Earth observation technolo-gies to support planning and monitoring of humansettlement and infrastructure development. She is alsofocusing on the use of Earth observation data in theplanning and monitoring of UN SustainableDevelopment Goals, African Agenda 2063 as well asNational Development Plan. She currently co-chairsAfriGEOSS Sustainable Urban Development and SouthAfrica-GEO Human Settlement working groups whichpromote the use of Earth observation to support sustain-able development. E-mail: nmudau@sansa.org.za.

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Dennis Mwaniki is a consulting urban and environ-mental planner and spatial data expert based in Nairobi.He is currently supporting methodological developmentsand data generation for monitoring of SustainableDevelopment Goal 11 “Sustainable Cities and HumanSettlements”. He has previously worked as a GIS andresearch consultant at the Global Urban Observatory(GUO) and the Best Practices units of UN-Habitat.InGUO,hedeveloped and implemented themethodologyfor calculating the amount of land allocated to streetsforover 100 cities. He contributed to the State of theWorld’s Cities report: Prosperity of Cities in 2012–13;and to the publication “streets as public spaces and driversof urban prosperity”. He has also worked as a GIS andurban planning consultant with the Slum DwellersInternational Kenya; the Center for Urban Research andInnovations at the University of Nairobi; and variousprivate companies based inNairobi. He holds aMasters inEnvironmental Planning and Management and aBachelors degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Hisinterests are in urban research, spatial modelling, smartcity systems and sustainable development. Mr. Mwanikiwas a co-author in the publications “Smart Economy inSmart Cities” and “E-Democracy for Smart Cities”.E-mail: denmwa02@gmail.com, dangithira@gmail.com.

Mandiaye Ndiaye is a Sr. Urban Planner andGeographer (Geo-Spatial Analyst) and an Engineer inTerritorial Management, Decentralization andDevelopment. M. Ndiaye received an M.B.A. from theUniversity of Paris Dauphine, a Postgraduate Degree inDecentralized Territorial Management and TerritorialDevelopment from the National School of AppliedEconomy of Senegal. He also holds a PostgraduateDegree in Geomatics (Development and Management ofGeographical Information) from the University of Ile Ife(Nigeria), and Geography Master’s degree from theUniversity of Dakar (Senegal). He has also receivedcertificates for professional training on ‘Urban Planningand Development’ from the National Centre of smalltowns (Beijing, China), and ‘Urban InfrastructurePlanning and Management’ from the Human SettlementManagement Institute (NewDelhi, India). Since 2016, hehas been the Chief of the Division Territorial Studies and

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Urban Poles at the Department of Urbanism and Housingof the Ministry of Urban Renewal, Housing and LivingEnvironment of Senegal. Prior to that, from 2013 to 2016,he was the Coordinator of the Coordination Committeeof theProgrammeZAC, and from2004 to2013hewas theCoordinator of the ZAC project at the Department ofUrbanism and Architecture. He was the National FocalPoint and Principal Coordinator of the NationalCommittee of the Third Habitat Conference onSustainable Urban Development and Housing. He alsorepresented Senegal at theAfricanUnionWorkingGroupin charge of the elaboration of the Africa CommonPosition Towards Habitat III. He also wasMember of theNegotiation team of the Project Document of Habitat III.He was also Member of the Committee for BuildingPermits. Since 2006, he is the Representative of Ministryof Urban Development on Negotiation with UnionGroups. From 2006 to 2014, he was the Focal Pointof the National Statistical office at the Ministry of UrbanDevelopment. He also represented the Ministry at theMillenniumDevelopmentGoalsNational Committee andseveral other national committees. E-mail: mnjaye@ya-hoo.fr.

Dr. Mame Cheikh Ngom is presently a Researcher anda Teacher at theUniversity CheikhAntaDiop (UCAD) ofDakar. He has an extended experience in management oflocal collectivities, territorial planning, local developmentand governance and decentralization. At the UCAD, hislecture at theMaster degree covers the following: networkconfiguration, territorial development and decentralizedcooperation; at the Bachelor’s degree, his lecture coversthe geography of Senegal. Prior to joining UCAD,Dr. Ngomhad 18 years of experience in local governmentmanagement including 4 years on accounting system,finance and treasury with the city of Pikine and manyyears of administration with other municipalities of thedepartment of Pikine. Dr. Ngom is the coordinator ofGRED (Group for Research and Development Studies).He has also experience in rural community developmentas per his experience in the rural community of Diass in2007 where he oversaw programmes on environment andnatural resources management. He successfully imple-mented an urban development project commissioned by

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ENDA GRAF, EVE and GRAIM ENDA in 2012. He ispresently the coordinator of the Professional AssociationCof Safy and President of the Association for theDevelopment of Bandia. Dr. Ngom holds a Ph.D. ingeography and regional planning, and municipal gover-nance, a Master’s degree in Urban Governance andDecentralization, a Master’s degree in Marketing inFisheries and a Bachelor’s degree in Geography. E-mail:thieeko@hotmail.com.

Prof. Femi Olokesusi has a B.Sc. (Honours) SecondClass Upper Grade from theUniversity of Lagos, Akoka, aMaster’s degree in Environmental Studies from YorkUniversity, Toronto, Canada, and a Ph.D. in Geography(with specialization in Environmental Planning andManagement) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.A fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners(FNITP) andHotel and TourismManagement Associationof Nigeria (FHATMAN), he retired as a ResearchProfessor from the Nigerian Institute of Social andEconomic Research (NISER), Ibadan in 2016.At NISER, he was Director of Physical DevelopmentDepartment for about 6 years andamongother professionaland administrative duties, and also acted as theDirector-General/Chief Executive Officer of the InstitutefromDecember 2010 toAugust 2011.A1994/95FulbrightAfrican Senior Scholar at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, USA, Femi has conducted severalstudies for several national and international agencies.Examples the World Bank, United Nations DevelopmentProgramme, UNCTAD, Geneva, African TechnologyPolicy Studies Network, UK-DfID, London;International Development Research Centre, Ottawa,Canada; Federal Ministry of Environment and NationalPlanning Commission, Abuja. Also, he served as aresource person on Nigeria Vision 20:2020 and theNational Infrastructure Master Plan. Femi served as aconsultant to the UN-Habitat in 2014/2015 on the CityStructure Plan Projects for Lokoja and Dekina. He iscurrently a Professor in the Tourism and EventsManagement Programme, Afe Babalola University,Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State as well as a member of theIndependent Advisory Group of the World Bank-assistedIbadanUrban FloodManagement Project. He has over 100

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peer-reviewed publications to his credit and is presentlyconducting research in the areas of Environmental Changeand Tourism, Smart Cities and Smart TourismDestinations. E-mail: femioloke@yahoo.com.

Romanus Opiyo Ph.D. is a lecturer in University ofNairobi, based in the department of Urban and RegionalPlanning. He has been part of a research team “AfricanCentre of Excellence for Studies in Public andNon-motorised Transport (ACET) covering Nairobi, Dares salaam and Cape Town”. Currently he is also thecoordinator for Centre of Urban Research and Innovations(CURI), University of Nairobi. He has over fifteen(15) years’ experience in consultancy and research workwith a number of them focussing on transportation policyand institutional framework, urban security and safety,preparation of master plans. Romanus has also beenengaged in various Environmental and Social ImpactAnalysis, violence, security and safety, InstitutionalGovernance and livelihoods projects and surveys. He hasalso done studies and consultancies for GovernmentDepartments and various international organizations invarious areas including building capacities for AfricaPlanners through United Nations Centre for RegionalDevelopment (UNCRD) both in Kenya and Botswana asfacilitator in data collection, analysis and projects evalu-ation techniques. He has Fourteen (14) years universitylecturing and project supervision experience. He is a leadEnvironmental Impact Assessment/Auditor Lead Expertregistered by Kenya National Environment ManagementAuthority (NEMA). He has published in the area of urbanand rural transport, smart cities, urban security andinformal sector. Romanus has presented in variousconferences both nationally and internationally includingmaking presentation inWorldUrban Forum (WUF)whichis one of the most respected forums for urban scholars andpractitioners. E-mail: romanop2000@gmail.com.

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Namratha Radhakrishnan has completed herBachelor of Architecture from the University of Keralaand Master of Technology with specialization in Urbanand Regional Planning from CEPT University. She has 9years of international consulting experience acrossgeographies such as the Middle East, North Africa,South East Asia, India and China, and sector experienceincludes industrial cities, SEZs and real estate. She iscurrently working as a faculty in the Department ofArchitecture and Planning, National Institute of PlanningCalicut. E-mail: namratharadhakrishnan@gmail.com.

Dr. Yifat Reuveni directs the social finance innovationactivity at the JDC Institute for Leadership andGovernance, where she is responsible for the R&D andimplementation of social finance models. She is alsoresponsible for enhancing the entrepreneurial and socialfinance ecosystem building in Israel in order to sustainregulation and deal flows for impact investments.Dr. Reuveni teaches B.A. and M.B.A. courses in socialfinance, social and profitable entrepreneurship, and alter-native economicmodels at theCollerBusiness School, TelAviv University and at the College of ManagementBusiness School, and is beneficiary of several EU grantssuch as Murie Curie (FAB‐MOVE) and Erasmus +CLEVER. Until 2014, she was the Head of the RecanatiBusiness School’s Development and InternationalRelations Unit. She completed a B.A. in Economics andPhilosophy and anM.A. in Communication Technologiesat the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. on theevolving of the new economy at McGill University,Montreal, Canada, focusing on the high-tech industries inNorth America and Europe. As a recipient of a CanadianInternational Development Agency (CIDA) scholarship,she participated in the McGill Program for Economic andSocial Rights, working with the Mohawk people (firstnation) inKahnawake, Canada, andwriting an assessmentreport of business opportunities in the Mohawk commu-nity (the KANATA 2000 Report). Prior to her time spentin Canada Yifat worked for 5 years with the Associationfor Human Rights in Israel as director of the consultingdepartment, working with security forces and publicservice leaders. She has given courses on the new economyand the neo-liberal economy at the Recanati Business

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School, Colman Business school and Ben-GurionUniversity’s School of Business and Management. Shementors entrepreneurs from around the world forInnovation and International Development, is involved innumerous initiatives in Israel to promote socialentrepreneurship and has acted as a judge for severalenterprise pitching competitions. Her current academicactivities consist of participation in an international researchgroup on social entrepreneurship at the Center for SocialEconomy at the Liege HEC Business School, focusing onalternative finance models as the financial infrastructure forsuch entrepreneurship, acting as social and sustainablefinance board member at OXFORD, beneficiary of MarieSkłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation StaffExchange (RISE—FAB-MOVE: For a Better Tomorrow:Social Enterprises on the Move—2016–2018, beneficiaryof CLEVER—Creative economy—EU Erasmus + 2016–2019 writing social finance case studies and leading twoIsraeli research groups in Tel Aviv University and in theCollege of Management Business School.

Timothy Rodgers is a Research Associate at the Institutefor Sustainable Urbanisation, and Project Coordinator andResearch Associate at UDP International. He holds aMaster’s degree in Transport Policy and Planning from theUniversity of Hong Kong, and a Bachelor’s degree inEconomics and Geography (Urban Systems) from McGillUniversity, Canada. His research experience at UDPInternational includes research and report writing on currentissues such as Smart Cities and Affordable Housing,assisting in the development of a Smart City Frameworkwith a focus on People, Place and Planet as core elements,as well as conducting research on public and private projectproposals and reports. He was the team lead for the HongKong chapter of the collaborative international researchpublication ‘Smart Economy in Smart Cities’, and con-tributed to the Hong Kong chapter of the collaborativeinternational research publication ‘E-Democracy for SmartCities’. E-mail: tim@udpcltd.com.

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Mustafa Sangare is a partner with GORA Corp andcurrently working on the Conakry Smart City Project.He is also currently working at the IFC/World BankGroup over 10 years and as Meetings & ConferenceServices Coordinator. Mustafa was awarded a degree inComputer Service Specialist at TESST University ofAlexandria Va. He has competencies in SQL Server,deploying applications, deploying database in differentenvironments like test and production environments.Ability to write, tuning and optimizing query perfor-mance, troubleshooting connection related issues.Mustafa has also gained extensive professionalismand experience in investment management with apartnership with Diversified Energy Corp and ARCOGlobus focusing on developing countries. E-mail:mustafasangare@msn.com.

Mfaniseni Sihlongonyane is an associate professorand Coordinator of Post-graduate Studies in the Schoolof Architecture and Planning. He studied geographyand Theology at the University of Swaziland in whichhe got a 2:1 in 1992. In 1993, he trained as a teacher toobtain a Post-graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)with distinction. From 1994 to 1995, he did a Mastersin Development Planning at Wits University and from2004 to 2008 he obtained a doctorate (DPhil) at OxfordUniversity. He has been the undergraduate coordinatorin the School between 2008 and 2011. He was alsodirector of the Planning Programme from 2011 to 2014.He also served as a member as well as the alternativechair of the South African Council of Planners in2008-2012 and 2013 to 2017 respectively. He waschairperson of the organization committee for the 52ndCongress of ISOCARP which was held in Durban in2016. He has been a hall coordinator at EsselenResidence between 199-2003 and warden for EOHResidence from 2007 to date. His research interestsspread over a wide range of theoretical, applied andpolicy arenas in the global as well as African realms ofdevelopment. The research encompasses principally theinterface between development and urban studies lar-gely within the context of the poignant dynamics of thepolitical economy in Africa. Over the years, he hasworked and published in areas of land reform, planning,

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gender, spatial development, urban politics, local eco-nomic development, community development, andAfrican city. The analysis of these topics is drawn froma wide range of disciplines which include: economics,history, sociology, anthropology, political and geogra-phy. Moreso, his insights in the exploration of theseareas are draw from his experience as an African.E-mail: Mfaniseni.Sihlongonyane@wits.ac.za.

Asfa Siddiqui is currently working as a Scientist atIndian Institute of Remote Sensing (Indian SpaceResearch Organization) since 2014. She did herBachelor’s in Architecture from Govt. College ofArchitecture, Lucknow in 2011 and Master’s inPlanning with specialization in Urban Planning fromSchool of Planning and Architecture, NewDelhi in 2013.She worked at NIT Kozhikode (Calicut) prior to joiningISRO. She joined Indian Institute of Remote Sensing(IIRS), ISRO in January 2014. Herwork focuses on urbanand regional areas with emphasis on energy and envi-ronment. E-mail: asfa.aas@gmail.com, asfa@iirs.gov.in.

H. B. Singh is a retired Professor of Urban andRegionalPlanning from School of Planning andArchitecture, NewDelhi. Apart from academics, he works as a developmentconsultant/advisor to a few MNCs and has led theirprofessional teams. An Architect and Town Planner byqualification from University of Roorkee and School ofPlanning and Architecture, New Delhi, he went on to doan advanced course in Urban Management Developmentfrom the University of Birmingham U.K. He wasemployed in responsible positions in the Town andCountryPlanningDepartment of theGovernment ofUttarPradesh and Government of India, before his stint of 12years as Chief Architect Planner in one of the largestuniversities—A.B.U. Zaria, Nigeria. After his return,he was selected to the position of the Principal,Government College of Architecture, Lucknow, throughUPPublic ServiceCommission. Finally, he joinedSchoolof Planning and Architecture New Delhi (An Institutionof National Importance) and retired as Professor and

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Head, Department of Regional Planning and Centre forRural Development. He has written a large number ofprofessional articles and co-authored three books, thelatest being ‘Urbanisation in India: Spatial Perspectives’.He has extensively travelled and delivered lectures in fewprestigious American universities. His varied and globalexperience in academics and profession, in developingand developed countries, various tiers of Governmentsand MNCs, have provided him with deeper and contex-tual understanding of Urban and Regional Planningconcerns. E-mail: hbsinghvats@gmail.com.

Dr. Eleni Tracada is Principal Tutor in the BuiltEnvironment (Architecture) at the University of Derby,UK; Chartered Member RIBA Part III; Senior Fellowof HEA. She graduated in architecture, Faculty ofArchitecture of Florence, Italy (1980) and worked as aself-employed architect in Florence (1983–1993). Shewas awarded an MA in Interior Design at ManchesterMetropolitan University (1996) and a Ph.D. byPublished Works at the University of Derby (2015).She taught Interior Design at Leeds College of Art &Design, Leeds (2001–2007). She is a Member of theScientific Committee of the International Society ofBiourbanism; she has been Editor in Chief of theJournal of Biourbanism (2011–2014). She participatedin international research projects, such as BESTLeonardo Lifelong learning (2011–2013), Wor(l)dswhich Exclude (2013–2014), Dance ArchitectureSpatiality (2012–2014). Her main research interestsinclude architecture, human behaviours in urban spaces,architectural psychology and placemaking, ageing andvulnerable communities’ needs in accommodation andurban design and smart cities and economies. Heroutputs disseminate ideas and recommendations onplanning frameworks and social policies. E-mail:E.Tracada@derby.ac.uk.

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Dr. Neha Goel Tripathi is an environmental plannerwith over 15 years of experience in EnvironmentalManagement and Architecture. She is presently workingas Assistant Professor in School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi. She did her post-graduationfrom School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi inMaster of Planning, specialization in EnvironmentalPlanning (2003) and was awarded the Gold medal foroverall performance. She is Associate Member, Instituteof Town Planners, New Delhi, Member, Council ofArchitecture, New Delhi and Member, Indian BuildingCouncil, New Delhi. National Environmental ScienceAcademy. Experience of more than 10 years in the fieldof environmental planning and architecture and workedon projects like Zonal Development Plan forEco-sensitive Area, Mount Abu, Indian Institute ofManagement, Indore, Manali Redevelopment Plan, etc.She has published articles on field of Ecologicalfootprint, Solar Zoning, Climate change, etc. Awardedthe first prize from the Hon’ble Minister for Housing &Urban Poverty Alleviation, Kumari Selja for paperpresentation, Climate Change and Indian CitiesPerspectives presented for World Habitat Day 2011organized by HUDCO, New Delhi. E-mail:nehagtripathi@gmail.com.

Gaurav Vaidya is an Infrastructure Planner and Asst.Professor in School of Planning and Architecture,Bhopal. He has around 11 years of professional expe-rience in industry and academics as well. He had workedfor more than 4 years (during 2009–2013) as UrbanPlanner in the Urban Development & Urban HousingDepartment, Govt. of Gujarat on various assignments,some of them are as follows: preparation of GandhinagarDevelopment Plan, Ahmedabad GandhinagarComprehensive Mobility Plan, Clean Green & SolarGandhinagar Master Plan, 3 Town Planning Schemes,12 City Development Plans, Detail Project Reports forMunicipal Water Supply & Urban Poor HousingProjects, Urban Reforms Appraisal and CapacityBuilding Programs for Municipalities of Gujarat, etc.As civil engineer, he executed various small-scale civilengineering projects during 2004–2007 with the capac-ity of Asst. Consultant Engineer. At present, he is

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involved in the research of ‘Management of urbansanitation services’, ‘Regional-urban infrastructure link-ages’ and ‘Green infrastructure development’. E-mail:gaurav.vaidya@spabhopal.ac.in.

Nikolas Zimmermann is working as a researcher atFraunhofer IAO. He has led several industrial andscientific projects and gained a lot of experience in theengineering domain. He has competencies in the fieldof additive manufacturing technologies, optimisationand digitalisation of development and productionprocesses as well as semantic knowledge manage-ment. He is in charge of the Digital Engineering Lab,which is a demonstration centre in Stuttgart, Germanyfor research activities and demonstrators concerningDigitalisation and Industry 4.0 influences. Furthermore,he also participates in the Future Work Lab(FWL) initiative, which shows how industry work willlook like in the future. Over 60 different Industry 4.0solutions are presented in the FWL. He holds aDiploma in Mechanical Engineering with specializationin Production Technology from the University ofKarlsruhe (KIT). E-mail: nikolas.zimmermann@iao.fraunhofer.de.

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