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CSRD organises a lecture by Dr Anil Kumar Roy

CSRD organises a lecture by Dr Anil Kumar Roy

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Centre for the Study of Regional Development

School of Social Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

 

Invites you all to a lecture on

 

Big Data in Urban Planning

 

By

Dr Anil Kumar Roy,

Associate professor 
Faculty of Planning , CEPT University, Ahmedabad

 

Date: April 20, 2018

Time: 4.00 PM

Venue: Cartographic Lab, CSRD, SSS III (Ist Floor) 


Abstract: Big data is the data set that does not fit into any normal computer excel sheet, it is accurate and most authentic  that makes policy makers and urban planner's job easy. It not only help plan urban area with voluminous but also authentic and accurate data minimizing the chances of errors for future projections. This preliminary study focuses on the various uses of big data in urban planning and at the same demonstrates a couple of small sectoral projects in Ahmedabad metropolitan region using big data. These projects are urban mobility and urban food delivery using mobile network users data. The future prospects of use of big data in urban planning has been discussed in detail.  

Second part of the lecture will include the scope of geographer for urban and regional planning and moving ahead to use both conventional and big data platform at CEPT University. 

 

Brief profile of the speaker : Dr Anil Kumar Roy holds a PhD degree in urban geography from CSRD, JNU and a master  degree in urban and regional planning from CEPT University. He specializes in the process of urbanisation and urban theory in global South. His current research interests are big data and urban planning, urbanisation and development, urban environment and poverty. He is also working on planning education in India.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.