Sohail Ahmad

Excited to 📣 a post doc @UofGUrbStudies and @housingevidence. The post is part of a new @ESRC project, URBAN RETROFIT UK, conducting vital research on delivering place adaptation for net zero through planning and development systems. Come join us: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJN028/res…

▪ #African cities have lower overcrowdedness than #Asian cities, except #Chinese cities. ▪ Low-income neighbourhoods have significantly higher overcrowdedness in South Asian cities, led by Delhi. ▪ Explainers: population growth rates; housing growth rates; what else???

#wwcs2024 has uniquely captured climate change #mitigation and #adaptation challenges from across the world. Here, research methods - systematic review - bind issues. We need evidence for sustainable development actions.

A great evolving concept of car sharing neighbourhoods in Merwede shared with Year 2 @YorkEnvironment students

Excellent talk related to active transport in Utrecht by Jaime Soza Parra to our Year 2 @YorkEnvironment students at the Utrecht University

Come and work with us in @YorkEnvironment! Associate Lecturer in Human Geography (Maternity Cover) at University of York jobs.ac.uk/job/DHU364/ass…

Excellent Open Access book on 'Cities and Citadels' by @Adam_S_Green et al. I enjoy how they have linked urban inequalities in archaeological contexts. Theoretically grounded with tons of (open) data and truly interdisciplinary. taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…

@patralekha2011 Very true, however, a big governance challenge ahead.

@sohailplanner Thanks for reading. Both have to go side by side. If only a wafer-thin minority hv the capability to thrive in a ruthlessly competitive world and the rest hv to make do with crumbs, there wl be widening of inequality which ultimately exacerbates social tension. Common sense.

How is India faring on the human development stakes at a time when there is much talk about “civilisational resurgence” and when the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its supporters pitch Hindutva as the centre piece of the national identity? My column, South by Southeast

Even after 10 years of 'great' development, India is the third most polluted country in the world. Happy at least ahead to Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is not only monitoring issues; it require new and robust strategies for development.

Finally, there is a need for developing strategies based on local contexts keeping broad socio-technical and socio-economic aspects in mind to develop creative plans for the uptake of clean fuel use.

Further, a better understanding of the pollution generated by biomass burning and its associated health consequences could contribute to encouraging behaviour shift.

We (@DarpanDas13 , @sohailplanner & @josuekirshner ) published a short review paper on 'Opportunities and Challenges Associated with the Uptake of Residential Clean Fuel Usage' in the Current Environmental Health Reports. For summary see thread. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excellent review, the edited volume deep dives into issues of 'new climate urbanism'. I like how contributions have covered three key aspects - entrepreneurial, reactive and transformative - that emerged from climate urbanism.