Siddhartha Sen

Morgan State University · School of Architecture and Planning

This article provides an overview of the types of educational goals, pedagogical approaches, and substantive topics in planning education related to issues of diversity and social justice. The study is based on a content analysis of one hundred syllabi collected from more than seventy instructors from North American planning schools during 2012–201...

This commentary brings together four scholars who have taught courses in diversity and inequity in planning to reflect on the challenges of speaking to and about issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference in contemporary equity and advocacy planning. Using evidence gathered from over forty-five years of collective teaching experience, we hi...

The article discusses the imposition of European models of architecture and urban planning within India, as well as the negotiations and compromises that took place in shaping colonial urbanism. Insights from multiple analytical and theoretical frameworks are used in the article, and it draws from post-structuralism and theories of dependent urbani...

This paper examines the views of practitioners and other stakeholders in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan region regarding environmental justice. Qualitative interviews were conducted with transportation planners, policymakers, managers and other stakeholders in transportation planning and policy. The findings indicate the public agencies,...

In the 1990s, federal legislation was passed requiring transportation planning to incorporate the interests of all stakeholder groups. One urban transportation mode that is often ignored is pedestrian movement. A group particularly susceptible to dif-ficulties in this mode is the elderly. This study surveys the attitudes of senior citizens in regar...

An overview of recent trends in research on the Indian nonprofit sector is presented. The material is not exhaustive of all research that has been conducted, but instead discusses effects of globalization on the literature. As used here, globalization implies the worldwide rise of economic liberalism, universal trust in political democracy, the adv...

This bibliography presents relevant readings from forty-one courses taught in fifteen graduate planning programs in the United States. Issues of race, gender, class, and ethnicity were a major theme in these courses, which were taught from the 1994-95 to the 1997-98 academic years. The readings are grouped into nine broad categories in this bibliog...

This article discusses some aspects of state–NGO relationships in India at the central and local levels from 1947 onwards. It draws its analytical framework from studies which incorporate organizational complexities and characteristics, political, social, and economic realities, associational cultures of individual countries, and human agency in an...

The article documents the history of the Indian voluntary or non-profit sector involved in socio-economic development of the country. Specifically, three questions are addressed. What type of voluntary organisations existed at what periods of history, and what were their primary activities? Who were the founders, and what were their motives? Can we...

This article examines the types of non-profit organisation (NPO) strategy/orientation that yield the best results in ameliorating India's new Draft Housing Policy by analysing a series of case studies selected from a sample of 29 NPOs. The contribution of the manuscript is threefold. First, the analysis presented has important policy implications b...