Advances in Urban Planning in Developing Nations: Data Analytics and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780367549688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Arnab Jana

Opis

This book examines the application of urban science and engineering in different sectors of urban planning and looks at the challenges involved in planning 21st-century cities, especially in India.

 

O autorze

Arnab Jana is an assistant professor at the Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, and associate faculty at the Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) Bombay, India. He works in the field of urban infrastructure policy and planning, primarily focusing on public health policy, application of ICT in urban and regional planning, sustainability, and environmental issues. He was visiting faculty at Hiroshima University, Japan, in 2016. He has a Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He was awarded the prestigious Monbukagakusho Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Government of Japan. He is also an alumnus of the Asian Program of Incubation of Environmental Leadership (APIEL), University of Tokyo. He has a Master's in City Planning from IIT Kharagpur. He has guided several doctoral and postgraduate students and has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, and books.