Dr. Nidhi Subramanyam

Biography

Nidhi Subramanyam’s ongoing research investigates approaches to planning and governing water and wastewater infrastructures in the face of rapid urbanization and the growing impacts of climate change. Her work addresses questions of urban governance and rural-urban transitions in cities of the Global South. At the core of her projects, Subramanyam interrogates planning processes that reflect and reinforce the status quo, examining moments of transition where social groups contest inequalities and seek to transform planning to create sustainable futures. Subramanyam is a faculty affiliate at the School of Cities, Data Sciences Institute, and the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She welcomes inquiries from undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing topics related to water-sanitation infrastructure planning, governance in cities of the Global South, rural-urban transitions, adaptation, environmental dispossessions, and critical data studies as they apply to environmental planning.

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