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Urban Designer | Urban Planner | Policy Researcher










Journal Articles

Changing role of the contemporary public realm: Case of industrial design districts in Milan. Tekton, 7(1), 18–32, 2020. Edited by S. Dalvi; Mahatma Education Society.
Author: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna.

Geographies of incineration: The (in)visible aides of the tenebrous urban networks.
Harvard Urban Review, 2022.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shruthi Ramesh.

Contentions of affordability in the habitat planning of a new town: A case of Navi Mumbai, India. Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, 47, 2023.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shruthi Ramesh.

Off the main streets. TRACE, UC Berkeley, 2025.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shivani Atre; Ayesha Ateekh.


Book Chapters

Saripat on the streets: Cult of play examining children in informal settlements along the highways and their access to play, learning, and knowledge-sharing institutions through urban design mechanisms. n.d.
Author: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna.

Metropolitan tourism and urban flux: Reframing narratives of urban development in constant transformation. n.d.
Author: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna, Shruthi Ramesh.

Contestations to a climate-sensitive heritage: Examining the negotiations of cultural markers along Mumbai’s expanding metropolitan coast. In Climate Change Related Urban Transformation and the Role of Cultural Heritage, Geographies of the Anthropocene, 6(2), 2023. Edited by M. Ripp & Gustafsson.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shruthi Ramesh.


Conference Papers and Presentations

Politics of gender, democracy, and public space: Role of beaches in reclaiming women’s right to the city. In Blurred Boundaries: In Search of an Identity. Pune: SMEFs BRICK School of Architecture, 2021.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shruthi Ramesh.

Curating informalities: Syncretism of social innovation in the city museum. In Connecting Cities, Connecting Citizens, CAMOC–ICOM Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2021.
Authors: Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna; Shruthi Ramesh; Shriya Dhir.

Research Grants & Awards

Research Grant – SIF Grant 2025
Project: Waste Equity — examining spatial, social, and environmental inequities within urban waste infrastructures.

Research Grant – The Saint-Gobain Research Grant Program (2022–2023)
Examining Historic Water tanks and their interface with indigienous communities.

Awarded: CEPT University Excellence Award
For Studio Unit “Ungendering the Everyday City”, examining feminist geographies and gendered spatial practices in urban design.



URBAN POLICY AND A PANDEMIC
-HARVARD URBAN REVIEW
DHOBI GHATS, MUSEUMS, AND URBAN NETWORKS
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COAST AND CULTURAL ERASURES
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small water bodies and cultural associations the planning of navi mumbai-  examining concepts 50 years since inception
tourism and the metropolis