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Courses |
• Development Innovation
• Urban Management
• Urban planning studio
• Cities without slums |
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• Urban Management
• Housing and Slums
• Development Policy
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| Profile |
Prof. Dinesh Mehta is a Professor Emeritus at CEPT University, Ahmedabad where he teaches urban management, housing and development planning. He has been associated with CEPT since 1977, when he joined CEPT as Assistant Professor. He was the Director of School of Planning, CEPT from 1985-92. Dr. Mehta was been the Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India, during 1992-97. He has worked with United Nations, at UN-HABITAT, Nairobi as head of the Urban Management Programme. Dr. Mehta has a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, and a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, IIT, Madras, India. |
| Recent Significant Projects / Publications |
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Financing water and sanitation at local level, (jointly with Meera Mehta) (mimeo), Wateraid, 2007 |
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Our Common Past: the contribution of the Urban Management Programme, Habitat Debate Vol 11 (4) December 2005 |
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Partnerships for Better Municipal Management, Asian Cities in the 21st Century, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, 2000 (jointly edited with Naved Hamid and Mildred Villareal) |
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“Financing of Urban Services in India: A case for appropriate pricing and cost recovery”, Habitat International, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 487-502, 1998. |
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“Participatory Urban Environmental Management: A case of Ahmedabad, India”, Woodrow Wilson Center series on “ Urbanization, Environment and Security”, Washington, 1998 |
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Metropolitan Housing Market: A case of Ahmedabad, Sage, New Delhi, 1987 |
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| Advisory Services |
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Advisor, All India Institute of Local Government, Mumbai |
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Member, Technical Advisory Group, GUDM, Govt of Gujarat |
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