Overview
Company / Institute
ISOCARP
Track
Track 3 LIVEABLE PLACES and healthy cities: planning for people
Position
Urban Planner
Bio
Mahak Agrawal is an urban planner, researcher from India. Currently working on the issue of sanitation deprivation and climate change response across districts of coastal and northeast India, she has served as an expert reviewer to the Second Order Draft of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
In different capacities, she has worked with non-profit organisations, development banks, universities and research institutes, as well as technical divisions of government-at the Centre and city level in India. Next to her contribution to the United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative, Mahak explores innovative, enduring research-guided solutions for pressing urban and regional environmental problems. She is specifically interested in the climate change and urban studies investigating the multi-track approach and inequalities of adaptations and transformations, development and geography, associated global challenges and human geography.
An advocate of open data for effective urban management, monitoring and response, she often provides thought leadership to the Young Academic Network of Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the South Asia Centre at London School of Economics. In 2017, she was awarded the Prof. V.N. Prasad Best Thesis Award for best thesis in Master of Planning in India.
Speaking Engagement
1. Second Plenary -
09 Sep, 2019
16:00 | Speech: Mobility and Metropolis - Cable Car SystemsMarc Funda, Transport Planner, Doppelmayr16: 10 | Speech: Empowering Smart Cities with Con...
2. Closing Plenary -
12 Sep, 2019
16:00 | Congress Summary by the General Rapporteur and the Congress Team Martina Juvara, Director, URBAN SilenceLuo Wenjing, Urban Planner, Wuhan Pla...
