Vinayak M Bharne
Vinayak Bharne is a practicing urban designer and city planner based in Los Angeles, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California - School of Architecture, and University of Illinois Chicago - College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs. He was former Asia-Pacific Development Commission Traveling Scholar to Japan, and former Presidential Fellow at the USC Marshall School of Business.
He is the Co-Director of My Liveable City, a global think tank and knowledge platform focused on creating inclusive and sustainable cities, and also serves as the Executive Editor of its bi-annual journal. His professional work ranges from satellite cities, new towns, campus plans, and housing for corporate, private, and institutional clients to urban policies and strategic advising for government and non-government agencies worldwide. His research interests include intersections of ecology and urbanism, sacred territories, affordable housing, indigenous cultures, informal urbanism and global heritage conservation.
Bharne was recognized as a 2015 Urban Edge Award honoree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee for his contributions to the field of urban design. In 2023 he received the Academic Leadership & Impact Award for urbanism from the University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum. In 2024, he was bestowed the John Chase Visionary Award for excellence in urban design & planning from the American Planning Association Los Angeles Section, and the National Allied Professional Appreciation Award from the Indian Society of Landscape Architects for significant contributions to the profession of landscape architecture.
He is the Co-Director of My Liveable City, a global think tank and knowledge platform focused on creating inclusive and sustainable cities, and also serves as the Executive Editor of its bi-annual journal. His professional work ranges from satellite cities, new towns, campus plans, and housing for corporate, private, and institutional clients to urban policies and strategic advising for government and non-government agencies worldwide. His research interests include intersections of ecology and urbanism, sacred territories, affordable housing, indigenous cultures, informal urbanism and global heritage conservation.
Bharne was recognized as a 2015 Urban Edge Award honoree at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee for his contributions to the field of urban design. In 2023 he received the Academic Leadership & Impact Award for urbanism from the University of Southern California Pacific Asia Museum. In 2024, he was bestowed the John Chase Visionary Award for excellence in urban design & planning from the American Planning Association Los Angeles Section, and the National Allied Professional Appreciation Award from the Indian Society of Landscape Architects for significant contributions to the profession of landscape architecture.
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Netherlands, the Paleiskwartier in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Designing for Sustainability through upcycling tells the inside story of nearly three decades how policies were made, decisions taken, designs created, how the projects developed in phases and how the city government partnered the private sector in a unique way. A series of essays and short interviews with key players involved -including directors, designers, developers and city-officials - provides a detailed overview of how this project was actually realized.
How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value?
This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to Rome, and Delhi to Moscow, this volume examines a vast range of topics – indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones, and modern landmarks. It surfaces numerous inherent issues – water stress, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration, and polity, expanding the definitions of heritage conservation as both a professional discipline and socio-cultural catalyst. This book argues that the intellectual and praxis limits of heritage conservation – as the agency of reading, defining, and intervening with built heritage – can be expansive, aimed at bigger positive change beyond a specific subject or object; plural, enmeshed with multiple fields and specializations; and empathetic, born from the actual socio-political realities of a place.