hi Pooja! your email woke me from my normal apathy. I am trained as an urban planner in the US (sans architecture background) but have rarely used it since as I had a career in development aid (community development specifically) for a long time. I am curious to know what opportunities young planners like yourself have in India because my impression (and that is admittedly a very old impression) is that planning is the territory of the IAS! Do city corporations have planners? How do they work with their regional counterparts? What is the master planning process if any and how publicly accessible are these plans for input and information? For example, I would love to see the master plan for my native city - Visakhapatnam but don't know if VUDA makes it publicly accessible online.
Hope you don't mind the questions - they have lingered in my mind for decades! cheers. Radhika -- "Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." ~ Lao Tzu (courtesy -Peacefrog) ""The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." -- Mary Oliver
