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Ruchika Lall

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, University College London Development Planning Unit

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6313-9390

About

Ruchika Lall is an architect and urban designer with over 14 years of experience on a diverse range of urban projects. These include winning entries in national competitions, interventions in housing and waste management in informal settlements, and action-oriented design research. She completed her master’s degree in building and urban design for development as a Chevening scholar at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. She has been visiting faculty at the School of Architecture and Planning at GD Goenka University. She has worked on housing, spatial inequity and policy research with several non-governmental organisations in India, the United Kingdom, Italy, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

As a Consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Ruchika’s research through the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) project focused on the role of planning education to address urban inequality, with attention to higher education in the Global South, as well as through pedagogy within housing rights movements and sites of collective action.

Employment

  • Indian Institute for Human Settlements

Education

  • University College London Development Planning Unit

Projects & Funding

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Publications (7)