Amit Kaur
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Amit Kaur

Assistant Professor
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About Amit Kaur

Dr. Amit Kaur is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Planning, CEPT University. She specializes in the domains of Land and its Development, Housing Planning & Policy, Quantitative Methods in Planning, GIS and its applications, Smart Cities. She has been involved in research and teaching roles across different institutions including IIT Delhi, TERI SAS, D Y Patil School of Architecture.
Dr. Amit Kaur holds a PhD in the domain of Housing and Community Planning from IIT Kharagpur. She has completed her M Plan (Housing) from CEPT University, her M Sc Geography from Presidency University Kolkata and B Sc in Geography from University of Calcutta. She was involved in teaching in different institutions at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels including Dr D Y Patil School of Architecture Pune, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. She was also working as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi before joining CEPT University
  • Real Estate & Housing Planning & Policy
  • Quantitative Methods in Planning
  • GIS and its applications
  • Smart, Sustainable, Resilient cities and communities
  • Urban Informatics
  • Land and Property Valuation — S‑2026
  • Professional Practice — S‑2026
  • Real Estate Project Management — M‑2025
  • Quantitative Analysis and Reasoning — M‑2025
  • Quantitative Analysis and Reasoning — M‑2025
  • Real Estate and Housing Project Studio — M‑2025
  • Understanding the World Cities — W‑2025
  • Quantitative Methods in Planning — S‑2023

Conference

  1. A policy framework for integration of renewable energy sources in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna Program: a flagship program for Affordable Housing in India 61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress
  2. Assessing the Story of Garima Greh: Shelter Homes for the Transgender People Urban Innovations Conference held at SPA Bhopal, Bhopal
  3. A Comparative study of satisfaction level for Middle-Income Group Residents of Government housings and Public-Private Partnership housings, ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) 53rd Annual Congress held at Oregon Convention Centre, Portland, USA
  4. A study of satisfaction level for Middle-Income Group Residents of Government housings in Kolkata International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment ​“Dialogues on Smart Built Environment ” held at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
  5. Attributes Affecting Neighbourhood Level Satisfaction of Middle Income Group Housings- A review ESM-15 International Conference on Innovative Research in Engineering, Science and Management held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India

Conference Proceedings

  1. A policy framework for integration of renewable energy sources in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna Program: a flagship program for Affordable Housing in India Amit Kaur 61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress, 2025
  2. Assessing the Story of Garima Greh: Shelter Homes for the Transgender People Amit Kaur Urban Innovation Conference 2024
  3. Comparative study of satisfaction level for Middle-Income Group Residents of Government housings and Public-Private Partnership housings Amit Kaur, Sumana Gupta 53rd ISOCARP Congress on Smart Communities
  1. Trends and issues in housing in Asia coming of an age Amit Kaur Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Journal Article

  1. A need for policy revision to reach the intended beneficiaries: a learning from middle-income group housing models in Kolkata, India Amit Kaur, Sumana Gupta Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
  2. An Evaluation of Middle Income Group Housing in Kolkata, India Amit Kaur, Sumana Gupta International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis
  3. Attributes Affecting Neighbourhood Level Satisfaction of Middle Income Group Housings- A review Amit Kaur, Sumana Gupta International Journal of Engineering Technology Science and Research (IJETSR)