Afternoon of October 22nd, the MID program holds the second development and practice lecture. The U.S. Cornell University Professor Neema Kudva was invited to present on the topic “Small Cities, Big Issues – Why small cities matter in debates on urban poverty & inequality”. MID program executive director Zhilin Liu hosted this lecture.
Within two hours, Professor Kudva introduced urbanization in India in particular Southern India and the fact all urban population living in smaller space. And in depth she spoke about collective violence, informality in urban space and other political challenges.
Neema Kudva's research focuses on international urbanization particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development at the local level. Kudva directs the International Studies in Planning Program and is affiliated with the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, the South Asia Studies Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Visual Studies Program at Cornell, and is a faculty fellow at Carl Becker House
. Kudva received her Dip.Arch. from the school of architecture at Ahmedabad, India, in 1989 and her M.Arch./M.C.P. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2001.
