Nihal Perera, PhD - CEIS

Nihal Perera, PhDProfessor of Urban Planning, Director CapAsia (on Sabbatical)Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of SingaporeProfessor, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Indiahttp://www.nihal.info/H I G H E R E D U C A T I O NPhD, Binghamton University, State University of New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995MSc, Development planning, Development Planning Unit, University College, London . . . 1987Professional Practice Program in Housing and Settlement Planning, MIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1985RIBA Part II (graduate study in architecture), University of Sri Lanka, Moratuwa . . . . . . . 1984BSc (Built Environment) and RIBA part I, University of Sri Lanka, Moratuwa . . . . . . . . . 1978A W A R D S, F E L L O W S H I P SSenior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Spring 2010Fulbright Scholar in China ............................................... 2006-07Malone Award for International Education, Nominee with Dr. Wes Janz: Nominated by thePresident of Ball State University ..................................... 2005-06Extraordinary Efforts in Providing Students an International Learning Experience, Centerfor International Programs, Ball State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999Graham Foundation Fellowship, for the completion of the Book: Society and Space . . . . 1997Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, Binghamton University . . . . . . . . 1995G R A N T S (Since 2005)Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, US Department of Education (DOE), for CapAsia V:Post-Tsunami Development in South Asia, $ 75,186....................... 2007-08Faculty Research Grant Category II, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), with TangWing-Shing, Comparative Urbanism in East and South Asia, HK$ 100,000 . . . . 2007-09Korean-American Educational Commission: two Travel Grants, $ 1,117 .............2007Conference Grant, for the conference on The Transforming Asian City (With Tang), ResearchCommittee, HKBU, HK$ 40,000...................................... 2006-07Conference Grant, for the conference on The Transforming Asian City (With Tang) Departmentof Geography, HKBU, HK$ 50,000.................................... 2006-07China Urban Research Center (CURS), for the special session on comparing urbanization inIndia and China (with Tang), CURS, HKBU, HK$ 30,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006-07Elizabeth Chan Cheng E-Lay Geography Academic Seminar Series Grant, for theconference on The Transforming Asian City (With Tang) HK$ 20,000 . . . . . . . . 2006-07Korean-American Educational Commission: Two Travel Grants, $ 1,085 ............2006Faculty Research Grant: Architecture from Below, Ball State University, $18,150 . . . 2006-07Global Media Network Grant (with Wes Janz) to develop a program between BSU and KingMongkut Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang KMITL), $ 5,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, US Department of Education,

Nihal Perera 2for CapAsia IV: Urban Studies in South Asia, $ 70,000 .................... 2004-05Visiting and Exchange Scholar Fund, Ball State University, $ 2,260 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004-05Participant: FIPSE - EU-USA Cooperation in Higher Education and Training Grant, toWright State University, Dayton, OH, for an internship-based certificate program incomparative planning between six European and US universities, $ 205,000 . . . 2002-05T E A C H I N G A P P O I N T M E N T S & A S S I G N M E N T SProfessor of Urban Planning, Ball State University.........................2009 to dateAssociate Professor of Urban Planning, Ball State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000-2009Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Ball State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1995-2000Lecturer (Part time), Binghamton University.................................. 1993-95Teaching Assistant, Binghamton University .................................. 1992-93Visiting Positions:Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010Professor, Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India 2009-10Fulbright Scholar/ Visiting Faculty, Hong Kong Baptist University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006-07Visiting Lecturer, Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer 2007Academic Programs:Director, CapAsia .................................................. 1998-to dateDeveloped and direct a biennial immersive-learning semester in south Asia built upontwo collaborative projects, “Planning to Learn” and “Building to Learn,” in two citieswith leading schools in Asia.Director of Asian Studies, Ball State University............................... 2003-06Director, East Asia Summer Program (EASP) .............................2006, 2009Transformed the 15-year old Far East Field Trip and executed as an immersive-learningprogram in China in 2006.Coordinator, Study Abroad Program at Assumption University, Bangkok........ 2003-05International Collaborative Studios/ Projects:Enabling People’s Recovery Processes after the 2004 Tsunami, Sri Lanka: The purpose ofthe project was to enhance the recovery processes of the tsunami-affected people in SriLanka. CapAsia V students studied five settlements in Hambantota District constructedfor the tsunami affected people and made small interventions that would enhance therecovery process of the people. The project was carried out in collaboration with thepost-graduate town planning students and the faculty of the University of Moratuwa, SriLanka, January-April ..................................................2008Mumbai (India) Project: After an intensive and extensive introduction to Dharavi, the studentswere asked to experience the informal space of Mumbai. In order to learn by doing, theyeither investigated informal practices, or performed in the informal sector, or made aninstallation or a structure. This CapAsia V project was carried out in collaboration with

Nihal Perera 3the CEPT University in Ahmedabad and the Kamla Raheja School ofArchitecture(KRVIA) in Mumbai, February 1-15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008Kalametiya (Sri Lanka) Project: Rebuilding/relocating Kalametiya (in Hambantota District) avillage of 30 houses destroyed by the tsunami of Dec 26, 2004. The CapAsia group was apart of a team that consisted of the Green Movement of Sri Lanka (the funding andmanaging agency), Service Civil International (an international voluntary organization),GOAL (an Irish NGO), and architect Madhura Prematilleke. February 27 - March 17 2005Ahmedabad Studio: Development Plan for Veraval: The students carried out surveys andprepared a preliminary development plan for Veraval, a port city in Gujarat; Joint projectbetween CapAsia participants and Center for Environment, Planning, and Technology(CEPT)’s Housing and Environmental planning graduate classes, Ahmedabad, January 9-February 26 .........................................................2005Delhi Studio II: Livelihood Improvement of Low-Income Settlements: The study of the effortsof National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), help NIUA the customization of theirCommunity-Based Information System (CBIS), and the development of proposals toimprove the livelihood of three self-built settlement in Delhi. CapAsia graduate studentprojects jointly organized with the NIUA, New Delhi, January 10- February 24 . . . . 2003Delhi Studio I: Development Plan for Pondicherry: The preparation of a preliminarydevelopment plan for Pondicherry (Southern India), Joint project between CapAsiaundergraduates and third-year physical planning students of the School of Planning andArchitecture (SPA), New Delhi, January 10- February 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Colombo Project: Build-Design-Build (Design as You Build) Project: The construction of twopavilions --review spaces for student design projects– using scavenged material. Jointlyorganized between the CapAsia program and the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,February 26 - March 15 ................................................2003Mumbai Studio: Eastern Waterfront Development: The preparation of development scenariosfor the Eastern Waterfront in Mumbai using the scenario-mini scenario method ofinformation gathering. Jointly organized with Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute forArchitecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA), Mumbai, February 5 - March 10 2001Sri Lanka Studio: Proposal for a school that uses the environment as a means to teach andlearn. CapAsia I project in collaboration with the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,March ..............................................................1999Kathmandu Studio: Proposal for a New Community Center in Sankhu, a traditional city nearKathmandu. CapAsia I project in collaboration with Nepal Engineering College (NEC),Kathmandu, February..................................................1999International Collaborative Workshops:Exploring the Post-Tsunami Recovery Process: CapAsia V students studied a number of posttsunamisettlements in Phuket (Thailand) with students from King Mongkut University ofTechnology at Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, February 15-19, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008Exploring the Post-Tsunami Recovery Process: CapAsia V students studied a number of posttsunamisettlements in Banda Aceh (Indonesia). The workshop was organized by theAceh People’s Forum, January 22-25, .....................................2008

Nihal Perera 4Exploring the Post-Hurricane Recovery Process: CapAsia V students studied the recoveryprocess on the Gulf Coast of the USA, December 15-18, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Bamboo Workshop: Bamboo and mud housing workshop conducted by King Mongkut Instituteof Technology at Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, January 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005Disaster Mitigation Workshop: Physical Planning for Disaster Mitigation in Low IncomeSettlements in the Yamuna Pushta River Basin Area. CapAsia workshop in collaborationwith the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, January 31- Februar2y0201Multinational Teleconference ClassesSubaltern Spaces: class between my class at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and theVirginia B. Ball Center seminar taught by Dr. Wes Janz at BSU, April 30 . . . . . . . . 2007Culture, Architecture, Environment: A transnational class between KMITL (Bangkok), TokaiUniversity (Tokyo) and BSU, June3 - 30...................................2006Multinational Teleconference Conferences:Tele-Conference Discussion on Sustainable Houses, with KMITL (Bangkok), and TokaiUniversity (Tokyo), August 30 ..........................................2005Tele-Conference Discussion on Environmentally Friendly Design, with KMITL (Bangkok),and Tokai University (Tokyo), June 7 .....................................2005P U B L I C A T I O N SIndividually Authored Books/ MonographsDecolonizing Ceylon: Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Space in Sri LankaOxford University Press (A new Asian edition of Society and Space) ............1999Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri LankaWestview Press ......................................................1998In Progress:People’s Spaces: Familiarization, Negotiation, Emergence (Proposal Submitted)Edited or Co-Edited VolumesThe Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices, ConferenceProceedings, eds. Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong BaptistUniversity...........................................................2007In Progress:The Transforming Asian City: People’s Practices and Emergent Spaces (with Tang Wing-Shing; Preparing the manuscript for review)

Nihal Perera 5Refereed Book Chapters:When Planning Ideas Land: Mahaweli’s People-Centered Approach, in Crossing Borders:International Exchanges and Planning Practices, eds.: Patsy Healey and Robert Upton:141-72. Routledge ....................................................2010Rebuilding Lives, Undermining Oppositions: Spaces of War and Peace in Sri LankaIn Spatializing Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka, eds.,CathrineBrun, Tariq Jazeel: 168-93. Sage.........................................2009Chandigarh: India’s Modernist Experiment, in Planning Twentieth-Century Capital Cities,ed., David Gordon: 226-36. London: Routledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006The Making of a National Capital: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Contestations in SriJayawardhanapura, in National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the NationalNarrative, ed., Michael Geisler: 241-272. Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Pres2s005Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo.In Trans-Status Subjects: Genders in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia, eds.,Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De: 67-87. Duke University Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Colonialism and National Space: Representations of Sri LankaIn Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka: ‘Pearl of the East’ or the ‘Islandof Tears’?, ed., Siri Gamage and I. B. Watson: 23-48. Sage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1999Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York?In Representing the City: Ethnicity, Capital, and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis,ed., Anthony D. King: 137-157. Macmillan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1996Refereed Journal Articles & PapersCritical Vernacularism: A Locally Produced Global Difference Journal of ArchitecturalEducation 63, 2: .....................................................2010Asian Urbanization and Planning: Viewing the Production of Space from the Spaces ofProduction Bhumi 1, 2: ...............................................2010People’s Spaces: Familiarization, Subject Formation, and Emergent Spaces in ColomboPlanning Theory 8, 3: 50-74 ............................................2009The Planners’ City: The Construction of Town-Planning Perception of ColomboEnvironment and Planning A 40/ 1 (January): 57-73 .........................2008Importing Problems: The Impact of a Housing Ordinance on ColomboArab World Geographer, 8, 1-2 (Summer): 61-76 ...........................2005Contesting Visions: Hybridity, Liminality, and Authorship of the Chandigarh PlanPlanning Perspectives 19, 2 (April): 179-203 ...............................2004thIndigenising the Colonial City: Late 19 -Century Colombo and Its LandscapeUrban Studies: Contested Landscapes, Asian Cities, eds., Lily Kong and Lisa Law, 39, 9:1703-21 ............................................................2002Globalization and the Urban Form: Transformations in Colombo in the 1980s and 1990sIn City, Space, and Globalization: An International Perspective, ed., Hemalata C.Dandekar: 39-45 .....................................................1998Territorial Spaces and National Identities: Representations of Sri LankaSouth Asia, xx: 23-50..................................................1997

Nihal Perera 6Winning on the Net: Virtual International Design Education,(with David Mackey and Uwe Koehler), in Proceedings of the Association of CollegiateSchools of Architecture International Conference, Berlin: 266-269 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1997Critical Vernacularism: The Subversion of Universalizing Trends in ArchitecturerdIn Proceedings of the 83 Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools ofArchitecture, 83 ......................................................1995National Architecture: Fiction or Reality? The Sri Lankan ExperienceIn International Research Symposium on Architecture + Culture Proceedings, eds., TomDonais, Trevor Boddy, and Enn Kayari: 135-140. Ottawa: Carleton University . . . . 1992Work in Readers:Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York, in The Global Cities Reader,Neil Brenner and Roger Keil eds.: 339-45 (Routledge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and short works:Bishwapriya Sanyal, ed.: Comparative Planning Cultures (Routledge, 2005) in UrbanGeography 28, 7 (October-November) ....................................2007Chengri Ding and Yan Song eds.: Emerging Land and Housing Markets in China(Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2005) in Journal of Planning,Education, and Research 26, 1 (October):..................................2006Simon Parker: Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City (Routledge,2003) in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, 2 (June): 4772-0806Ravi Kalia: Gandhinagar: Building National Identity in Postcolonial India (University ofSouth Carolina Press, 2004) in Urban Studies 43, 7 (June) 10-11: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Stephen Marshall: Streets and Patterns (London and New York: Spon Press, 2005) in theJournal of Urban Technology 13, 2: 126-28: ...............................2006Vikramaditya Prakash, Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity inPostcolonial India (University of Washington Press, 2002) in the Journal of AsianHistory 39, 1 (November): 96-8..........................................2005Joe Nasr and Mecedes Volait, Urbanism: Imported or Exported? (Academy Editions, 2003)in Town Planning Review 76, 3: 372-3 ....................................2005Kumari Jayawardena, Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in SriLanka (Zed Books, 2002) in American Historical Review 110, 1 (February): 117-8 . 2005Carla Chifos and Ruth Yabes, eds.,Southeast Asian Urban Environments: Structured andSpontaneous (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Program for Southeast AsianStudies, 2000) in the Journal of Planning Literature 17, 1 (August): 67 . . . . . . . . . . 2002Other Significant Publications: (from 2000)New Directions in Urbanism and Planning in Asia, in The Transforming Asian City:Innovative Urban and Planning Practices Conference Proceedings, eds, Nihal Perera andWing-Shing Tang: 116-133 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University) . . . . . . . . 2007The Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices in Asia, in TheTransforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices Conference

Nihal Perera 7Proceedings, eds, Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang: 1-6 (Hong Kong: Hong KongBaptist University) ....................................................2007Combining History and Future: Continuity and Change in Kandy, Sri Lanka, InternationalConference on Traditional Temple Architecture Conservation Conference Proceedings:19-36 (Tainan City, Taiwan) ............................................2007Accommodation, Contestation, Negotiation: The Construction of Urban Cultures andSpaces, Urban Imagination and Contemporary Art in the Public Sphere Proceedings ofthe Busan Biennale International Symposium (Seoul, South Korea): 49-60 . . . . . . . . 2006Competing Imaginations: The Authorship of the Chandigarh PlanA+D Architecture + Design: A Journal of Indian Architecture 22, 1 (January): 38-482005Planned Cities and Authorship: Contested Visions in the Chandigarh Plan, ConferencethBook Planning Models and the Culture of Cities, 11 Conference of the InternationalPlanning History Society, Barcelona, Spain, July 14-18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2004CapAsia Field Study: Learning from Planning, Learning from Building, in Weaving:Constructing and Construing the Material Word as Tapestry, proceedings of the ACSACentral Conference 2003, Muncie, IN, College of Architecture and Planning, Ball StateUniversity...........................................................2004Making Asian Cities Livable: The Kyeonggi Plan and Other ExperiencesCWLCF2003 Paper Book: The Transformation of the 21 & Life-Culture Salim; SpecialSession: Life-Culture and Regional Development Planning: Making Gyeonggi a LivablePlace (Suwon: Kyonggi Research Institute, Kyonggi Cultural Foundation, Life-CulturalStudy Institute), 133-147...............................................2003Emerging Trends in Asia’s Planning and UrbanizationProceedings: Seventh International Congress of Asian Planning Schools Associationst(APSA): Creating Better Cities in the 21 Century (Hanoi: Hanoi ArchitecturalUniversity), I104-I111 .................................................2003The Transforming Asian City: The Challenges and Potential for PlannersNational Organization of Students of Planning Forum 2003, eds., Divya Chandrashekharand Poulomi Chakraborty (February) 11-15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Explaining Colombo: The Contested History of a Colonial CitySeminar Proceedings: Urban Renaissance through City Architecture (Colombo: SriLanka Institute of Architects): 17-31 ......................................2002Development Policies and the Built Environment in Sri LankaThe Sri Lanka Architect, 102, 1: 12-26 ....................................2000In Progress:Crossing the Divides: The CapAsia Project, In One Small Project, ed., Wes Janz ForthcomingP R E S E N T A T I O N SKeynote Address:Approaching Asian Planning: Viewing the Production of Space from the Spaces ofProduction, Ninth International Congress of Asian Planning Schools Association,Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 27-28 .......................................2007

Nihal Perera 8Conference Papers: (from 2000)Spaces of Recovery: Enhancing the Recovery Process of the Tsunami Survivors in SriLanka, Asian Planning Schools Congress, Ahmedabad, November 24-26 . . . . . . . . 2009People’s Towns: Mahaweli Planning (Sri Lanka) of the 1980, Urban Redevelopment in EastAsian Cities: The People’s Approach, Hong Kong, May 6-9 ...................2009Compromised Visions and Emergent Spaces: The Redevelopment of Dharavi, East AsiaRegional Conference on Alternative Geographies, Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 13-16 . 2008Spaces of Recovery: A View from a Post-Tsunami Settlement (Sri Lanka), Workshop:Visioning the Urban, Institute of Gender and Women’s Studies, American University ofCairo, Cairo, Egypt, May 26-27..........................................2008Innovative Aspects of Asian Urbanism and Planning: The Colombo Experience, Associationof Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007CapAsia Field-Study Program, Roundtable on Planning Field Studies, Association ofCollegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007New Directions in Asian Urbanism and Planning, The Transforming Asian City: InnovativeUrban and Planning Practices, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, May 3-52007Combining History and Future: Continuity and Change in Kandy, Sri Lanka, InternationalConference on Traditional Temple Architecture Conservation, Tainan City, Taiwan,April 18-19..........................................................2007A New Urban Perception: Importing Urban Problems and Planning in Early TwentiethCentury Colombo, Cross National Transfer of Planning Ideas and Local Identity, 12 thInternational Planning History Society Conference, New Delhi, India, December 11-124006Heritage Conservation, Landscape, and Spatial Transformation, Sustainable Developmentand Heritage Conservation: The Transdisciplinary Approach, ICOMOS Thailand 2006Annual Meeting, Udon Thani, Thailand, November 17-18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Insurgence, Cosurgence, Resurgence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planning Theory,World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, July 13-15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Subverting the Mainstream Narrative: Spaces of War and Peace in Jaffna, ChangingGeography in a Diversified World: in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of HongKong Baptist University, Hong Kong, June 1-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Integrating Teaching and Technology: Technology Supported International Education atBall State University, WUNCA 14, Phayao, Thailand, Jan 11 – 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Colonial Perceptions and Local Practices: The Impact of British Urban Perceptions in SriLanka, Flows and Spaces in a Globalized World, Royal Geographic Society-International British Geographers Annual Conference 2005, London, Aug 31 - Sep 2 2005Critical Vernacularism: A Subversion of Universalizing Trends in Architecture, Society ofthArchitectural Historians’ 58 Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, April 6-10 . . . . 2005International Education: The CapAsia Example, Administrators Conference of theAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Cincinnati, April 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2005Engaging the South Asian City, Asia Link Workshop on City Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad,January 12 - 15.......................................................2005Teaching Development after 9/11, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland,OR, October 21-24....................................................2004

Nihal Perera 9Planned Cities and Authorship: Contested Visions in the Chandigarh Plan, PlanningthModels and the Culture of Cities, 11 Conference of the International Planning HistorySociety, Barcelona, Spain, July 14-18 .....................................2004Making Asian Cities Livable: The Kyeonggi Plan and Other Experiences, Special Session:Life-Culture and Regional Development Planning: Making Gyeonggi a Livable Place,World Life Cultures Forum 2003, Suwon: Korea, December 18-21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Learning by Planning, Learning by Building: The CapAsia Experience, Association ofCollegiate Schools of Architecture Central Regional Conference, Muncie, IN,October 24 ..........................................................2003National Aspirations and Designer Ambitions in Chandigarh, Seventh InternationalstCongress of APSA: Creating Better Cities in the 21 Century, Hanoi, Vietnam,September 12-14 .....................................................2003Emerging Trends in Asian Urbanization and Planning, the Joint ACSP-AESOP 2003Congress, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-12 ....................................2003The Making of a National Capital: Conflicts, Contradictions, and Contestations in SriJayawardhanapura-Kotte, City One, New Delhi, India, January 8-11 . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Plans, Designs, and Authorship: National Aspirations and Designer Ambitions inChandigarh, 44th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning,Baltimore, MD, November 21-24 ........................................2002National Aspirations and Designer Ambitions: Accessing Chandigarh Through the MayerthPlan Cities of Tomorrow, 10 Congress of the International Planning History Society,London and Letchworth, July 10-13 ......................................2002Frames of Globalization and Their Spatial ImplicationsDemocracy, Civil Society, and Environmental Design: A Symposium, Ball StateUniversity, Muncie, IN March 25-27......................................2002Explaining Colombo: The Contested History of a Colonial CitySymposium on Urban Renaissance through City Architecture, Bandaranaike MemorialInternational Conference Hall, Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, February 22 . . . . . . 2002Globalization and Identity: The Restructuring of Colombo in the 1980s, Globalicities: AConference on Issues Related to Globalization, Michigan State University’s 2001Modern Literature Conference, Lansing, Michigan, October 18-20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001Beyond Post-Colonial: Emerging Trends in Planning in Asia, World Planning SchoolsCongress, Shanghai, July 11-15..........................................2001Indigenizing the City: Late-Nineteenth Century Transformations in Colombo, Seminar onContested Landscapes, Singapore, June 3-4 ................................2001International Field Studies in Planning: Ball State’s South Asian Experience, Forty-SecondAnnual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta, GA,November 2-5 .......................................................2000Feminizing the City: Gender Relations in Colonial Colombo, 29th Annual Conference onSouth Asia, Madison, WI, October 13-15 ..................................2000Planning at the Crossroads: Colombo at the Turn of the Century, Centre - Periphery -Globalization, Past and Present, Ninth International Planning History Conference,Helsinki, Finland, August 20-23,.........................................2000

Nihal Perera 10Invited Lectures, Presentations, Workshops: (from 2000)People Centered Planning: The CapAsia V Project in Hambantota Sri Lanka, JawaharlalNehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, September 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2009Subversive Space-Making: Implications for Planning, Department of Sociology PublicLecture Series, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 10 . . . . . . . . . . . 2008Class and Space in Colombo: The Colonial Construction of an Urban Perception, 1910sand 20s, German Cultural Center, Colombo, March 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008Portuguese India: The Indian Ocean Space, Urban Systems and Colombo, HistoricalArchives of Macau, Macau, August 1 .....................................2007Asian Urbanism: A View from Below, Hubei University, Wuhan, China, July 28 . . . . . . . 2007Innovative Aspects of Asian Urbanism and Planning, Department of Town Planning SeminarSeries on “Cities,” Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia, July 23 . . . 2007People’s Spaces: A Spatial Perspective of the Separatist-Sovereignist Struggle, InternationalCentre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Feminizing the City: The Transformation of a White Male Christian City, LingnanUniversity, Hong Kong, April 16.........................................2007The American City: Diversity and Multiplicity, Fulbright Seminar Series, Macao Universityof Science and Technology, Macao, China, March 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Other Narratives: Spaces of War and Peace in Jaffna, South Asia Studies Center, NationalUniversity of Singapore, March 21 .......................................2007Engaging the Asian City: Research, Pedagogy, and Subaltern Spaces, East-West Talks,David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, HongKong, March 8 .......................................................2007Importing Urban Problems: A New Perception of Colombo, Institut Teknologi Bandung(ITB), Bandung, Indonesia, February 16 ...................................2007Indigenizing Knowledge: Locally-Friendly Research, Presentation to PhD students, InstitutTeknologi Bandung, Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, February 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Indigenizing the Colonial City: Colombo in the 1860s-1880s, Gadga Mada University,February 14 .........................................................2007Postcolonial Theory and the Subaltern City: Indigenizing and Feminizing Colombo,Elizabeth Chan Cheng E-Lay Geography Academic Seminar Series on The Frontiers ofGeography, Hong Kong Baptist University, January 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Urbanism and Planning in India: Their Significance, Critical Geography Study Group, HongKong Baptist University, January 13 ......................................2007The Planners’ City: The Development of Modern Planning Perceptions of Colombo, TheUniversity of Hong Kong, September 20, ..................................2006Subverting Space: Spaces of War and Peace in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, The Chinese University ofHong Kong, September 7, ..............................................2006Accommodation, Contestation, Negotiation: Subversive Urban Spaces, Urban Imaginationand Contemporary Art in the Public Sphere, Busan Biennale 2006, Seoul, Korea, June13-15, ..............................................................2006New Directions in Asian Urbanism and Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May29 .................................................................2006

Nihal Perera 11Critical Vernacularism: An Architecture from Within, School of Architecture, NationalTaiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan, March 21 2005Critical Vernacularism: Another Way to Understand Progressive Design Approaches inSouth Asia, School of Architecture, Center for Environment, Planning, and Technology(CEPT), Ahmedabad, February 22........................................2005Explaining Colombo: A Contested History, School of Planning, CEPT, Ahmedabad,February 17 .........................................................2005Space, Culture, and Urban Design, Department of Urban Design, CEPT, Ahmedabad,February 16 .........................................................2005Local Modernity: Critical Vernacularism, School of Architecture, Rajkot,January 22 ..........................................................2005Asian Urbanization and Urban Planning, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand,January 7 ...........................................................2005New Trends in Asian Urbanization, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand,January 4 ...........................................................2005Reading the Landscape: The Colonial Transformation of Kandy, Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok, Thailand, January 5 ...........................................2004Sliding Modernities: The Plans and Planning of Chandigarh and Sri Jayawardhanapura-Kotte, The Modernist City in Globalization, Yale Center for Cities and Globalization,Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Gender Relations in Colonial Colombo, Urban Studies program, Southern ConnecticutUniversity, New Haven, CT, October 30...................................2003The Impact of Colonialism on the Sri Lankan Built Environment, Discussion of the book,Decolonizing Ceylon, Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka, March 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Young Architects and the Design Curriculum, Young Architects Festival 2003, The IndianInstitute of Architects, Faridabad, Haryana, India, February 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003Responses to Modernism: Critical Vernacularism in Asia, University of Wisconsin atMilwaukee, September 27 ..............................................2002Critical Vernacular Architecture in Asia, Panel on Critical Vernacularism and After,UniverCity, Ball State University, September 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Social Construction of Space: Indigenizing Colombo, Faculty Seminar Series, College ofSocial Sciences, Colombo University, Colombo, August 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Poor Spatial Development in Sri Lanka: An International Perspective, Public talk sponsoredby the Institute of Town Planners - Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Professional Center, Colombo,February 25 .........................................................2002Historic Preservation and Urban Transformation: The Kandy Experience, ChulalongkornUniversity, Bangkok, Thailand, November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001Waterfront and Community Development: The CapAsia Project in Mumbai, King MongkutUniversity of Technology at Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, November 26 . . . . . . . . 2001The Making of a Capital: Sri Jayawardhanapura-Kotte, Department of Town & CountryPlanning, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, November 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001

Nihal Perera 12National Identity and Spatial Representation: Sri Lanka’s Designed Capital, South Asianand Middle Eastern Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,October 2 ...........................................................2001Two Major Transformations: Colombo in the 1860s and the 1980s, Faculty of Architectureand Planning, Moratuwa University, Sri Lanka, March 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001Globalization and the City: Colombo at the Turn of the Century, Visiting Scholar LectureSeries, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies,Mumbai, India, March 7 ...............................................2001Housing Policies in the Developing World, Workshop on Physical Planning for DisasterMitigation in Low Income Settlements in the Yamuna Pushta River Basin Area, School ofPlanning and Architecture, New Delhi, January 31-February 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001The Colonial Exporting of Planning to Colombo, Symposium on Colonial Planning & theWork of Lutyens in Delhi, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, January 224001Culturally Appropriate Planning: Research and Practice Notes, Department of Architecture,College of Engineering and Technology, Orissa University of Agriculture andTechnology, Bhubaneswar, India, January 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2001Planning in Colombo at the Turn of the Century, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, August10 .................................................................2000Third World Housing Policies, Seminar on Housing Policy: Perspectives on Nepal, Institute ofEngineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal, May 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2000C O N F E R E N C E S A N D P A N E L SOrganizer/Convener: (from 2000)For International Studios and Workshops see above.Conference Organizer: The Transforming Asian City, withDr. Tang Wing Shing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, May 3-5 . . . . . . 2007Roundtable: Different Faces of Urbanization in Asia, Focus on Asia, Ball State University,November 21 ........................................................2005Super session: Experiential Learning: CapAsia Experience (two sessions), the Association ofCollegiate Schools of Architecture Central Regional Conference, Muncie, IN, October23-24 ..............................................................2003Roundtable: Emerging Trends in Asian Urbanization and Planning, the Joint ACSP-AESOP2003 Congress, Leuven, Belgium, July 8-12................................2003Panel: Colombo in Transition, at the City One conference, New Delhi, India, January 8-11 2003Special Meeting: Subaltern Studies in Urbanism, Special Meeting of the Cultural StudiesReading Group, Ball State University, November 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Panel: Critical Vernacularism and After, UniverCity, Ball State University, September 242002Symposium: Design, Planning, and Diversity Symposium, Ball State University,April 7, 8, ...........................................................2000Discussant/ Panelist/ Commentator: (from 2000)Panelist: Closing Discussion, Symposium: Sustainable Dialogues, Bangkok, June 21-22 . . 2007

Nihal Perera 13Discussant/ Moderator: Learning from Tsunamis and Hurricanes, Symposium: SustainableDialogues, Bangkok, June 21-22 .........................................2007Panelist: Round Table: Case-Based Teaching and Curriculum Development, EmergingSouth Asian Urban Design Practices & Paradigms, Colombo, June 7-9 . . . . . . . . . . 2007Reporter and Discussant: Accommodating Infrastructure in Urban Design, Emerging SouthAsian Urban Design Practices & Paradigms, Colombo, June 7-9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007Discussant: Arjun Appadurai’s presentation on “The Traffic OF Modernity in Asia,”International Symposium on Contemporary Asian Modernities, Hong Kong, September9-10 ...............................................................2006Discussant: Empire, Globalism, and New Orientalisms in Planning, Association of CollegiateSchools of Planning, Portland, OR, October 21-24...........................2004Discussant: Reviving America’s Forgotten Neighborhoods: An Investigation of Inner CityRevitalization Efforts by Elise Bright, Democracy, Civil Society, and EnvironmentalDesign: A Symposium, Ball State University, Muncie, IN March 25-27 . . . . . . . . . . . 2002Discussant: Ethnic Divisions and Collaborations, Forty-Second Annual Meeting of theAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta, GA, November 2-5 . . . . . . . 2000Moderator: (from 2000)Sustainable Urbanism, Asian Planning Schools Congress, Ahmedabad, November 24-26 . 2009Urban (Re)development in East Asian Cities: The People’s Approach, East Asia RegionalConference on Alternative Geographies, Seoul, South Korea, December 13-16 . . . . 2008Global and Traditional Contemporary Local Planning Styles, Cross National Transfer ofthPlanning Ideas and Local Identity, 12 International Planning History SocietyConference, New Delhi, India, December 11-14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006Empire, Globalism, and New Orientalisms in Planning, Association of Collegiate Schools ofPlanning, Portland, OR, October 21-24....................................2004thModern Urbanism, 11 Conference of the International Planning History Society, Barcelona,Spain, July 14-18 .....................................................2004National Aspirations and Designer Ambitions in Chandigarh, Seventh InternationalstCongress of APSA: Creating Better Cities in the 21 Century, Hanoi, Vietnam,September 12-14 .....................................................2003Urban Planning, Urban Design, and Public Interest, 44th Annual Meeting of the Associationof Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, MD, November 21-24 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002thColonial and Post-Colonial Planning I, Cities of Tomorrow, 10 Congress of the InternationalPlanning History Society, London and Letchworth, July 10-13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002City Form in Asia, International Seminar on Urban Form, Cincinnati, OH, August 5-9 . . . 2001Convener and Moderator: Emerging Trends in Planning in Asia, World Planning SchoolsCongress, Shanghai, July 11-15..........................................2001Moderator: Ethnic Divisions and Collaborations, Forty-Second Annual Meeting of theAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Atlanta, GA, November 2-5 . . . . . . . 2000Chair: Identification of Issues and Recommendations, Seminar on Housing Policy:Perspectives on Nepal, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal,May 15-16 ..........................................................2000

Nihal Perera 14E D I T O R / B O A R DEditorial BoardEditorial Board: Planning Theory. ....................................... From 2005Editorial Board: Bhumi: The Planning Research Journal of University of MoratuwaFrom 2008International Editorial Board Built-Environment, Sri Lanka. .................. From 1998EditorGPEIG Newsletter ................................................ From 2001-2004P R O F E S S I O N A L P L A N N I N G A N D D E S I G N E X P E R I E N C EPlanning Consultancy: Evaluation of the development plan for the City of Deyang, SichuanProvince, China, .....................................................2007Regional and Physical Planning Consultant,ACRES International Limited (Canada), in the Transmigration Project, Indonesia . . 1988Chief Architect-Planner, Mahaweli Development Project, Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1983-89Architect-Planner, Mahaweli Development Project, Sri Lanka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1981-83Architect, Selvaratnam and Perera, Chartered Architects, Colombo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1978-81Site Architect, State Fertilizer Manufacturing Corporation, Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka . . 1977-78Planning Projects Carried Out with Students:Projects and proposals to enhance the post-tsunami recovery process in Hambantota District, SriLanka, (with the University of Moratuwa), Sri Lanka, Spring 2008Preliminary Development Proposals for the city of Veraval, India (with CEPT University,Ahmedabad; presented at the City Hall), January - March, 2005Preliminary Development Proposals for the city of Pondicherry, India (With the School ofPlanning and Architecture, New Delhi), January - March, 2003Preliminary Proposals for the enhancement of livelihood in 3 informal settlements in New Delhi,India (with the National Institute for Urban Affairs), January - March, 2003Design/ Build Projects Carried Out with students:Several projects, as part of the post-tsunami recovery project in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka,Spring 2008Helped begin rebuilding permanent houses for the tsunami victims of Kalametiya, Sri Lanka,March 2005Designing and building two pavilions, on in wood and the other in clay (mud) at the Universityof Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, March 2003

Nihal Perera 16R E F E R E N C E SDr. Lawrence Vale tel. (617) 253-0561Margaret MacVicar FellowE-mail: ljvale@mit.eduFormer Chair, Department of Urban Studies and PlanningM.I.T. 7-33877 Mass AvenueCambridge, MA 02139Dr. Anthony D. Kingtel.Professor Emeritus of Art History and of Sociology E-mail: adking@blueyonder.co.ukBinghamton University, State University of New York at BinghamtonBinghamton, NY 13902-6000Dr. J Paul Mitchell tel. (765) 289 0513Chairperson EmeritusE-mail: lismitchell@comcast.netDepartment of Urban PlanningBall State University2700 S. Cecil Rd.Muncie, IN 47302Dr. Wesley R. Janz tel. (765) 285 1915 fax. 285 2648Associate Professor of ArchitectureE-mail: wjanz@bsu.eduDepartment of ArchitectureCollege of Architecture and PlanningBall State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306-0315Dr. James Duncan tel. 01223 333399Reader in Cultural GeographyE-mail: james.duncan@geog.cam.ac.ukDepartment of GeographyUniversity of CambridgeDowning PlaceCambridge CB2 3EN,