Souvanic Roy

Academic Qualifications

PG Diploma in Housing and Urban Development (ICHUD), IHS, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Diploma in Urban Management Tools for Climate Change (DUMTCC), IHS, Rotterdam, Erasmus University, Netherlands
PhD, BESU Shibpur
MURP, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
B.Arch, University of Calcutta

Urban and Environmental Planning, Urban Housing, Livelihood and Community Planning, Heritage Conservation and Urban Development, Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Planning, Cost Effective and Alternative Technology in Architecture, Community Based Natural Resource Management

Latest Publications

1 Atul Chauhan , Souvanic Roy , Abhinandita Kundu, Assessing sediment dynamics and retention services in the vulnerable mountain ecosystem of the Indian Himalayas, 196(10), 10.1007/s10661-024-13073-4, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2024

2 Suchismita Chatterjee, Souvanic Roy, Rent Generation, Social Networks and Urban Transformation in Minority-dominant Neighbourhoods of Kolkata, LVIII NNo 52, Page 45-52, Economic & Political Weekly, 2023

3 T. Chatterji, G. Gotz, P. Harrison, R. Moore, Souvanic Roy, Capacity in motion: comparative Covid -19 governance in India and South Africa, https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2022.2154829, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2022

4 Rituparna Pal, Souvanic Roy, Biswajit Thakur, Assessment of energy efficiency for traditional non-engineered and engineered residential buildings- A case for North-Eastern India, 61(2), 440-451, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2022

5 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, Atanu Chatterjee, Global contagion and local response: the influence of centre–state relations and political culture in pandemic governance, 43:3, 192-211, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 2021

6 M. Pramanik, S. Szabo, I. Pal, P. Udmale, J. O’Connor, M. Sanyal, Souvanic Roy, Z. Sebesvari, Twin Disasters: Tracking COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan’s Impacts on SDGs in the Indian Sundarbans, 63:4, 20-30, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 2021

7 Souvanic Roy, Tathagata Chatterji, The Pandemic and Reimagining of Urban through the Lens of Progressive State Responses, 49(3-4), 45-55, Social Scientist, 2021

8 SubhaChakraborty, SatiprasadSahoo, DebaleenaMajumdar, Swati Saha, SouvanicRoy, Future Mangrove Suitability Assessment of Andaman to strengthen sustainable development, Volume 234, 597-614, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019

9 Nilanjan Sengupta, Souvanic Roy , Himadri Guha, Assessing embodied GHG emission reduction potential of cost-effective technologies for construction of residential buildings of Economically Weaker Section in India, volume 19, 139-156, Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2018

10 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, Envisioning a Humane Urban Policy for India, The Wire.in, 2018

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Research Areas

Collaborative US India Consortium Research on Housing, Livelihood & Vulnerability of the Urban Poor in the Cities of Global South
Collaborative Research under UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub in partnership with leading UK, Canadian and Asian Institutions
Collaborative Research with Deptt. of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA on “Redevelopment of West Bengal’s Jute Mills in Post-Industrial Kolkata, India”. Collaborators: Prof. Brent Ryan (MIT) & Prof. Souvanic Roy
Collaborative Research on Heritage Conservation and Urban Development at Serampore, West Bengal in partnership with National Museum of Denmark
Collaborative Research on Smart Wise Inclusive Cities (SWIC) - India Pilot in collaboration with Manchester Urban Institute -University of Manchester and Xavier University, Bhubaneswar
Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency in Built Environment
Socio Ecological Resilience in Fragile Ecosystems
Climate Change and Cities
Urban Heritage Conservation
Urban Housing and Regeneration

Teachings

PG Courses

1 Detailed Project Report 2 Planning Project II

UG Courses

1 Landscape & Site Planning Practice 2 Architectural Conservation 3 Housing

Publications

7 Souvanic Roy, Tathagata Chatterji, The Pandemic and Reimagining of Urban through the Lens of Progressive State Responses, 49(3-4), 45-55, Social Scientist, 2021

10 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, Envisioning a Humane Urban Policy for India, The Wire.in, 2018

11 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, The National Urban Policy Is a Great Opportunity for Course-Correction, The Wire.in, 2018

12 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, How Indian Cities are Squeezing the People out of Public Spaces:, The Wire.in, 2018

13 Souvanic Roy, Tathagata Chatterji, Post-industrial Urban Transformation in a Transitional Metropolis: Implications for Housing Rights and Environmental Justice in Industrial Slum Tenements in Urban Core, Research Monograph on "Cities, Rural Migrants and Urban Poor: Issues of Violence & Social Justice: The Ordinary City and Exploration of an Urban Future " by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2017

14 Subrata Kr. Paul, Souvanic Roy, Tourism based Heritage Conservation in Murshidabad: An Appraisal, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Taylor and Francis, 2016

15 Sukanya Ghosh, Souvanic Roy, Manas Kr. Sanyal, Applicability of Soft System Methodology in Problem Analysing in the Field of Affordable Housing, 17(1), 51-62, Shelter, 2016

16 Souvanic Roy, The Smart City Paradigm in India: Issues and Challenges of Sustainability and Inclusiveness, 44(5-6), 29-48, Social Scientist, 2016

17 Souvanic Roy, Tathagata Chatterjee, From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India, L'Espace Politique (Online),29/2016-2, 2016

18 Sukanya Ghosh, Souvanic Roy, Manas Kr. Sanyal, Soft System Methodology as a Tool to Understand Issues of Governmental Affordable Housing Programme of India: A Case Study Approach, 97(3), 343-354, Journal of Institute of Engineers of India, 2016

19 Souvanic Roy, Smart Cities-India’s New Urban Agenda? Proceedings of the International Symposium on “Urban Quest South Asia”, 27-39, South Asia Urban Forum, Colombo,Sri Lanka, 2015

20 Souvanic Roy, Smart City: Utopia and Reality, The Statesman 13th and 14th July,2015, 2015

21 Souvanic Roy, Manas Kr. Sanyal, Sustainable Slum Improvement Models: Ban Mankong in Thailand and PRODEL in Nicaragua, 7(12), 23-28, TerraGreen, 2015

22 Bhabani P. Mukhopadhyay, Souvanic Roy, Susanta Chaudhuri, Soumen Mitra, Influence of Geological Parameters on Landslide Vulnerability Zonation in Darjeeling Town in Eastern Himalayas, Volume 4 Number 2, 27-46, Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management (AJEDM), 2012

1 Souvanic Roy, Climate Proofing of Indian Cities: Need for Paradigm Shift in Urban Development, 34-46, Proceedings of the International Symposium on “Livable Habitat and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Key to Smart Growth” published by IIT, Kharagpur, 2016

2 Souvanic Roy, Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Experience of Megacities in Asia, 37-48, Proceedings of the “Asian University Network Forum on Advances in Research” published by Aichi Gakuin University, Japan, 2015

1 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy & Atanu Chatterjee, Sub-national Political Culture and Covid-19 Pandemic: Governance Response Towards Life & Livelihood Vulnerabilities of Urban Poor in India, Local Government and the Covid-19 Pandemic A Global Perspective (ed) Carlos Nunes SilvaChapter 28, 713-738, , 2022

2 Soumen Mitra, Souvanic Roy, Subrata Kr. Paul, Rehabilitative Planning Strategy for Transformative Changes of Vulnerable Communities in Indian Sundarban., Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand (eds) Yamahata, C., Seekins, D.M., Takeda, M.Volume 1, 259-278, , 2021

3 Subrata Kr. Paul, Souvanic Roy, Soumen Mitra, Urban Dynamics, Socioeconomic Transformation and Built Heritage in a Historic Town of India: An Appraisal, Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand (eds) Yamahata, C., Seekins, D.M., Takeda, M.Volume 1, 115-136, , 2021

4 Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy, Gentrification and Post-industrial Spatial Restructuring in Calcutta, India, Gentrification around the World Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology (eds) J.Krase, J. DeSenaVolume II, 269-288, , 2020

5 Souvanic Roy, Tathagata Chatterji, The smart city policy of India and its governance implications, Smart Cities in Asia Governing Development in the Era of Hyper- Connectivity (eds) Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon TanChapter 7, 108-126, , 2020

6 Subrata Kr. Paul, Abhinanda Chatterjee, Souvanic Roy, Issues and Challenges for Transit-Oriented Development in the Scenario of a Developing Country: The Case of Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India, Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment: A Focus on the Global SouthChapter 4, 65-90, , 2020

7 Souvanic Roy, Development Efforts towards Ecological Sustainability in Calcutta: Transformation of a Metropolis, Rights and Security in India, Myanmar, and Thailand (eds) Yamahata, C., Sudo, S., Matsugi, T.Volume 1, 31-46, , 2020

8 Souvanic Roy, Soumen Mitra, Sudip Kr. Roy, Manas Kr. Sanyal, Landuse and Infrastructure Development Strategy for Planned Transformation of Bally- Howrah-Uluberia Planning Area, Urban Development in Howrah: Socio-Economic Perspectives”, Primus Books, New Delhi312-348, , 2015

9 Souvanic Roy, Architectural Design, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781472521576)49-56, , 2015

10 Souvanic Roy and Soumen Mitra, Eco-development and Biodiversity Conservation- A Study of Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, “Insights from the Field: Studies in Participatory Forest Management in India”, published by Winrock International India , New Delhi221-242, , 2011

11 Souvanic Roy, Ecological Sustainability and Metropolitan Development: The Calcutta Experience, “Waste Recycling and Resource Management in the Developing World” published by International Ecological Engineering Society, Switzerland293-302, , 2000

12 Souvanic Roy, Santhal Architecture, Published by Folk and Tribal Cultural Centre, Govt. of West Bengal, Calcutta, 1998

13 Souvanic Roy, Evaluation of Shelter Strategies for Urban Poor: Case Study Metropolitan Calcutta, “Housing Development and Management” published by Centre for Built Environment, Calcutta, India137-141, , 1996

Patents

#	Patents	Year

UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub Collaborative Research Project sponsored by UKRI-RCUK and coordinated by Newcastle University UK, Sponsored
Ongoing
Proposal for Development of Bantala Greenfield City- Karmadiganta sponsored by Sector VI Industrial Township Authority Govt. of West Bengal under the 15th Finance Commission Performance based Challenge Fund for Incubation of New Cities by Govt. of India, Consultancy
Ongoing
Assessment of Projects in Smart City Programme at New Town Rajarhat, Kolkata sponsored by National Institute of Urban Affairs ( NIUA) Govt of India under the SAAR Initiative, Sponsored
Ongoing
Role of Indigeneous Communities in Planning and Management of Protected Areas in Canada sponsored by Shastri Indo Canadian Institute, Sponsored
Completed
Analysis of Village Clusters With Special Reference to Houses Built under the HUDCO Scheme of Assistance to Cyclone Affected Areas of Hasnabad, North 24 Pargana, Sponsored
Completed
Riverfront Development Plan in the Central Business District of Kolkata sponsored by Development Consultants Ltd. Kolkata, Consultancy
Completed
Conservation and Redevelopment of Crawford Market, Mumbai sponsored by Development Consultants Ltd. Kolkata, Consultancy
Completed
Planning Strategy for a Heritage Town: Study of Murshidabad under In-house Research Scheme of Jadavpur University, Sponsored
Completed
Green Building for Guest House and Ancillary Infrastructure at Digha for Students Health Home, Consultancy
Completed
Study of Tenure Issues and Pilot Action Plan for Improving Tenure Security for the Urban Poor in Metropolitan Kolkata sponsored by DFID, UK, Consultancy
Completed
Planning and Management of Protected Areas in Thailand sponsored by Ford Foundation and coordinated by Asian Scholarship Foundation, Thailand, Sponsored
Completed
Comparative Study of Protected Area Governance in Southeast Asian Countries sponsored by Ford Foundation coordinated by Asian Scholarship Foundation, Thailand, Sponsored
Completed
Carrying Capacity Assessment and Strategic Plan for Bally Municipal Area sponsored by DFID, UK, Consultancy
Completed
Proposed New Town at Domjur, Howrah, for Howrah Improvement Trust, Consultancy
Completed
Draft Development Plan for Bally Municipal Area sponsored by DFID, UK, Consultancy
Completed
Howrah Development and Rejuvenation Plan for Howrah Improvement Trust sponsored by DFID, UK, Consultancy
Completed
Kolkata City Development Plan for Kolkata Municipal Corporation sponsored by DFID, UK, Consultancy
Completed
Eco- Development and Biodiversity Conservation: Case Study Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal sponsored by Winrock International India, Sponsored
Completed
Development of Decision Support System for Urban Planning in Darjeeling Hills, West Bengal sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, Sponsored
Completed
Integrated Cluster Action Plan for Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission in Hooghly District, West Bengal sponsored by Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of West Bengal, Consultancy
Completed
Slum Free City Plan of Action (SFCPoA) at Korba under Rajiv Awas Yojana ( RAY), Govt. of India sponsored by Stesalit Ltd., Consultancy
Completed
Master Plan for ISI, Tejpur Centre for Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, Consultancy
Completed
Smart City Development Plan for Haldia sponsored by Haldia Municipality, Consultancy
Completed
Policy and Design Proposal for Heritage Walk in the Historic Core of Serampore sponsored by National Museum of Denmark, Consultancy
Completed
Listing, Assessment and Grading of Heritage Buildings in Serampore’s Historic Core sponsored by National Museum of Denmark, Consultancy
Completed
Integrated Conservation and Development Plan for the Historic Core of Danish Serampore, West Bengal sponsored by National Museum of Denmark, Consultancy
Completed
Comparative Appraisal of Thermal Performance of Traditional (Assam or Ikra Type) and Emerging Housing Typologies and Upgradation of Traditional Prototypes for Improved Thermal Behaviour in Different Sub-Climatic Zones of Northeastern India, Sponsored
Completed

Awards

Gold Medal for first position in postgraduation in SPA, New Delhi, Year: 1988
Gold Medal for best postgraduate thesis in SPA, New Delhi, Year: 1988
Ford Asia Follow-up Fellowship by Asian Scholarship Foundation, Year: 2003
Ford Asia Fellowship by Asian Scholarship Foundation, Year: 2003
Nuffic Fellowship by Netherlands Fellowship Programme, Year: 2014
Shastri Indo Canadian Fellowship by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), Year: 2016