Wonder what the photograph is? It is a proposed hotel building at Hyderabad, India with individual cottages in the foreground. I have designed  two more hotels, one at Goa and another in mumbai. You can view those and my urban planning & development projects in the My Projects photographs tab. You can also download all my ebooks from this page.

WELCOME TO MY HOMEPAGE, MY IDEAS, REFLECTIONS, AND MY THOUGHTS.

I AM an urban planning & development Consultant.

I am the town planner of the greenest city in the world, Gandhinagar. You can read the genesis and description of the new city in my book'THE BUILDING OF GANDHINAGAR: NEW CAPITAL OF GUJARAT. (Foreword by Christopher Benninger, world renowned Architect) My other books URBAN PLANNING & DEVELOPM ENT:AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE', (Foreword by Girish Gokhale, I.A.S. Ex. Municipal Commissioner, Mumbai), URBAN GROWTH STRATEGIES:MUMBAI LESSONS’, (Foreword by N.V.Merani Ex. Principal Secretary, Government of Maharashtra), ' WHAT AILS INDIA ', 'MAKING OF A NEW CAPITAL CITY', 'HANDS ON GUIDE: URBAN PLANNING AND HOUSINGencompass over 57 years of field  EXPERIENCE in developing optimal,simple,practical and innovative approaches to urban development issues.

Planning & Designing of low income housing projects has been my passion all these years. You can read my articles and see the urban housing projects I de signed. All these projects are integrated in city/regional plans. You can also read my thoughts about Regional Planning & Town planning. All my urban development projects can also be viewed. I have also written extensively about Urban Management and Education.

 
Click here to see my IIM interview for budding architects.
Click here to see my interview on Finland TV

 



Last Update: 14th July 2021. This site has been optimized for the Mozilla Firefox Browser. If you have problems downloading the articles when using Internet Explorer, please use Mozilla Firefox instead. Site designed by Palash Apte

 

                           

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Apte's Principle.

"Projects in India are undertaken for their propensity to generate kickbacks for the politicians, bureaucrats, and technocrats. Any benefit accruing to the people is incidental and unintended."