Bish Sanyal
Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning
Director, SPURS and Humphrey Programs
Room 9-435A
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: sanyal@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-3270
Current Research
Comparative approaches to administrative decentralization (UNDP), formalizing informal land markets (Lincoln Land Institute), politics of organization in the informal economy.
Selected Publications
Comparative Planning Cultures, Ed, 2005, Routledge: New York.
Planning as Anticipation of Resistance, Planning Theory, Vol. 4, No. 2, (2005), pp. 225-245
Globalization, Ethical Compromise and Planning Theory, Planning Theory, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2002), pg. 117-124. Sage Publications.
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery: A Case of Unforeseen Conflicts in Mumbai, India, coauthored with Vinit Mukhaja, World Development, Vol. 29, No. 12, December (2001).
The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Successes, Failures and Challenges (1900-2000), Eds. Lloyd Rodwin and Bish Sanyal, 1999, Cambridge, MA.
High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology, Eds. D. Schon, B. Sanyal and W. Mitchell, 1998, MIT Press: Cambridge.
Cooperative Autonomy: The Dialectics of State - NGO Relationships in Developing Countries (Geneva: International Institute for Labor Studies, Research Report No. 100, 1994).
Recent Classes
11.025J D-Lab: Development Fall 09
11.189 New House International Development Seminar Series Fall
11.201 Gateway: Planning Action Fall 09
11.464 The Informal Sector and the Household Economy Spring
11.472 D-Lab: Development Fall 09
11.953 (S07) Shelter, Settlement and Development: Design and Planning Challenges of Contemporary Indian Cities Spring 07
Recent Awards
Additional Information
Trained as an Architect Planner with a doctorate from University of California at Los Angeles. Sanyal has served as a planning consultant to Ford Foundation, World Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Center for Human Settlements, United Nations Development Program, and the United States Agency for International Development. Research experience in India, Bangladesh, Zambia, Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon, Brazil, and Curacao.
Research areas of interest are: urban economy and housing, Planning Institutions and Processes; Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in development process; Planning Education and Theory.
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