Prasanth Narayanan Email & Phone Number

Ahmedabad, GJ, IN

Delhi, India

• Research -
• Conduct exhaustive literature review
• Identifying case studies and key levers employed by cities in the public transport sector that have enabled them to persist through the ongoing pandemic
• Validated data collected to check information accuracy and integrity while independently locating and correcting concerns.
• Developed presentations for data validation workshop
• Co-author of the technical report and strategic guidance documentManagement

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Research & Design
• Designed the academic curriculum and pedagogy for the studio titled " Urban Policy and Regulation-Intent, Manifestation, and Design." The studio focuses on understanding the impacts of urban law and policy on city.
• Contributed to planning appropriate and engaging lessons for both classroom and distance learning.
• Managed the day-to-day administrative responsibilities - Studio budgets, scheduling lectures with experts, grading.Teaching Methods
• Built strong rapport with students through class discussions and academic advisement.
• Assisted and identified at-risk students to eliminate student barriers to learning.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

• Management
• As an academic associate, I was involved in the day-to-day management of the foundation program.
• Communication regarding all administrative or academic information was disbursed in an efficient manner to students and faculties.
• Organized weekly Teaching Associate meetings, to ascertain the problems faced by students, TAs and respective faculty.
• Ensure parity in academic and logistic requirements parity across ten studio units ( 15 students each).
• Engaged with studio units every week and was involved in the teaching process and task for the respective week.

Ahmedabad Area, India

• Research
• Conducting detailed literature review
• Ideating, data collection, analysis, and writing of 2 working papers. The first research paper contextualizes the concept of Transit Oriented Development for Indian cities, and the second explores the concept of Transit.
• Co-authored the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs endorsed handbook titled LAP (Local area plan) For Transit. The handbook aims to provide step-by-step guidance on implementing Transit-Oriented Development led.
• Grant management - drafted grant proposal, collating and preparing all necessary documents to ensure the grant procedure runs smoothly.
• Managed and conducted workshops as per project requirements.

Ahmedabad Area, India

• Research and Design
• Carried out research, setting up workshops, and final design of the joint publication HRIDAY Reflections. The monograph was a collaborative between the Ministry of housing and urban affairs, CEPT, and the International.

Mumbai Area, India

• Management
• I Was part of the project team handling the Learning and Development Center's construction for Reliance corporate park.
• My role involved the following - Timely execution of construction activities as per schedule. This entailed timely management of on-site resources.
• Verification of work completed by subcontractors and subsequently ensuring payment of all sub-contractors on site.
• Was part of the project team that was handling the construction of the Learning and Development center for Reliance corporate park.
• My role involved the following - Timely execution of construction activities as per schedule. This entailed timely management of onsite resources.

Master'S Degree, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Bachelor'S Degree, Civil Engineering, 7.26 First Class

Education record