Urban and Regional Planning Education

Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning studentsat the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi since the last 23 yearsafter finishing his doctorate from the University of Liverpool, U.K. Widelyknown for his expertise in spatial justice, capabilities and planning, andcollaborative planning theory, Prof. Kumar has published nearly 100 papers innational and international journals, authored, edited, and co-edited 10 books,and contributed over 20 book chapters. Currently he is Editor of the ITPIJournal of the Institute of Town Planners, India. Previously he has been Editorof SPACE: The SPA Journal of Planning and Architecture published by SPA NewDelhi. FormerlyChief Planner, Town and Country Planning Organization, New Delhi for more than12 years, Dr. D.S. Meshram has greatly influenced the planning profession inIndia since the last four decades. Currently Dr. Meshram is the President ofthe Institute of Town Planners, India. Prior to this Dr. Meshram has held theposition of Chairman of the All India Board of Town and Country PlanningEducation of AICTE for nine years when he got prepared the model curricula bothfor undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more than two yearsDr. Meshram was appointed Advisor (Urban Development) to Government of Uttarakhand. Krishne Gowda is the Director at the University School of Design, University ofMysore, Karnataka since December 2014. Before this Prof. Gowda held theposition of Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysorefor nearly six years. He has been working as a Professor of Urban and RegionalPlanning at the University for over 12 years. So far he has supervised 16doctoral students. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers injournals, and also authored and co-authored 8 book chapters. He is a greatorganizer of academic events.