Sneha Mandhan

Sneha Mandhan (she/her) is an urban planner, architect, and educator with an interdisciplinary practice in planning, urban design, architecture, design research, and community engagement. She collaborates on city building and engagement projects with Monumental Projects, People Design Co-operative, and the Department of Words and Deeds. She teaches graduate courses in urban design at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, and holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an undergraduate degree in architecture from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal (NIT Bhopal).

Her work focuses on exploring and incorporating culture into the planning and design of cities. She is currently pursuing a PhD in planning at the University of Toronto, where she is working to discover and share the stories of banquet halls as important sites of cultural celebration for the South Asian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area.

Publications 

Mandhan, Sneha, and Kelly Gregg. “Managing the Curb - Public Space and Use of Curbside Cafes during the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Cities (London, England), January 2023, 104070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104070.

Hess, Paul, and Sneha Mandhan. “Ramming Attacks, Pedestrians, and the Securitization of Streets and Urban Public Space: A Case Study of New York City.” Urban Design International, March 7, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41289-022-00180-2.

Birge, David, Sneha Mandhan, Waishan Qiu, and Alan M. Berger. “Potential for Sustainable Use of Trees in Hot Arid Regions: A Case Study of Emirati Neighborhoods in Abu Dhabi.” Landscape and Urban Planning 190, October 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.05.008.
Peer-reviewed book chapter:

Mandhan, Sneha and Alan Berger. “Coupling Environmental and Socio-Cultural Sustainability for Better Design. A Case Study of Emirati Neighborhoods and Landscape.” In Routledge Companion to Landscape Architecture, 2018.

Peer-reviewed Book Review:

Mandhan, Sneha. (2023, January 20). Episodes from the Social Life of the Delhi Metro. [Review of the book The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, by Rashmi Sadana]. Metropolitics, https://metropolitics.org/Episodes-from-the-Social-Life-of-the-Delhi-Met...