Chandan Deuskar

Join Penn IUR for a conversation with Chandan Deuskar on his book Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics, recently published in collaboration with PennPress as part of our ongoing series The City in the Twenty-First Century.

In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. He draws on literature from multiple disciplines (urban planning, political science, sociology, anthropology, and others), statistical analysis of global data on urbanization, and an in-depth case study of urban Ghana. Urban planners and international development experts working in the Global South, as well as researchers, educators, and students of global urbanization will find Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics informative and thought-provoking.

This is a hybrid event. Lunch will be served for those attending in person.  Please register with the link above to attend.

Chandan Deuskar is an urban planning researcher and international development practitioner whose work focuses on urbanization in the Global South. Chandan currently works as an Urban Development Specialist at the World Bank. In 2020-2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Institute for Urban Research as well as a fellow at the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow. He completed a PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He also holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in architecture from Columbia University. He was raised in Mumbai, India, and currently lives in Washington, DC. 

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