Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Environment & Climate
- Policy & Planning
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Urban Planning, Disaster risk, Infrastructure Planning, Global South, India
Cohort
2023-2027
Biography
Vineetha Nalla is pursuing her PhD in Planning from the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research and interests span across the themes of urban risk, disaster risk reduction and recovery, resilience, urban planning and affordable housing. In her past research with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Vineetha explored affordable housing and infrastructure planning in India's cities, disaster managment policy and planning, representations of disaster impacts, and experiences of recovery post disasters. Currently she is exploring the intersections of urban planning, identity-based politics and the production of disaster risk in urban areas.
Publications
Harish, S., Nalla, V., Ranjit, N., & Satish, N. (2024). Landlordism, social relations and built form in informal private rental housing markets in India. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 39(1), 493–515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10084-4
Few, R., Ranjit, N., Nalla, V., Jain, G., Tebboth, M., Singh, C., Chhotray, V., Marsh, H. (2023). ‘We are not in the same boat’: representations of disaster and recovery in India’. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 92, 103709.
Nalla, V., Ranjit, N., Udupa, Y., Madhavan, M., Arvind, J., Jain, G., & Malladi, T. (2022). In V. Nalla & N. Ranjit (Eds.), ‘Afterwards: Graphic narratives of disaster risk and recovery from India’. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
Nalla, V., Johnson, C., Ranjit, N., Sen, G., Peddibhotla, A., Anand, M.C., Bhatia, N., & Bazaz, A.B. (2022). ‘Considering curriculum, content, and delivery for adaptive pathways: Higher education and disaster resilient infrastructure in the Indian urban context’. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, DOI: 10.1080/23789689.2022.2134645
Johnson, C., Jain, G., Nalla, V., & Cáceres-Martínez, J. D. (2021). ‘Risk as a subjective concept and its influence on decision-making’. In C. Johnson, G. Jain, A. Lavell (Eds.), Rethinking urban risks and resettlement in the global South (pp. 77-95). UCL Press. (Accessed at: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/155742)
Nalla, V., Ranjit, N., & Jain, G. (2021). ‘Representations of disaster recovery needs: A study of legal frameworks and litigation in Odisha’. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 57, 102163.