Dr.Prashanti Rao

Green space Perception Studies, Green Infrastructure Planning , Mapping City /fringe area Resillience and Accessible/Inclusive Architecture and Planning

GIS, SPSS , Space Syntax, Quantitative and Qualitative - Multi Criteria Statistical/ Analytical tools.

Green Infrastructure for building climate change resilience at Regional, City as well as neighborhood level

My doctoral research emphasized the present regulatory system for providing Green Spaces within residential communities of varied typologies. It critically investigated and examined the provisional criteria and their impact on the usability of green spaces in reference to low-mobility and high-mobility user groups. The mixed method approach had been adopted to understand the paradigm shift of the perception of the user group toward the usability of green space. In this purview, Visual accessibility importance parallel to Physical accessibility had been identified. This research helped in converting the visual angles obtained through the view shed theory method into Visual spaces (distances. The same had been validated with the present status with reference to the usability of spaces. As an outcome, a new regulatory framework had been suggested by modifying the present one by inserting visual accessibility criteria for passive and active activities to enhance the usability of green spaces within the gated community for varied typologies.

My doctorate research further focussed my direction toward green and blue infrastructure networks for building resilience at the macro as well as micro level linking to Urban heat Islands as well as Island cooling effect for different climatic conditions and its impact on the local climatic zone.