Rajiv Kadam
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Rajiv Madhukar Kadam

Associate Professor
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About Rajiv Madhukar Kadam

Associate Professor with the Faculty of Planning, CEPT University. He is teaching Urban Design Studios, courses in Humanizing Cities, Urban Design Theory, Urban History and guiding thesis students in architecture and urban design. His major emphasis and interest is to develop an in depth understanding of nature, human aspects and urban ecology as the basis to design of built environment.
Rajiv Kadam is Associate Professor at Faculty of Planning in CEPT University. Graduated in Architecture and post-graduation in Urban Design from CEPT University and is engaged in teaching since 1991 in Urban Design Studios, Humanising Cities seminar course, Urban Design Theory and guiding thesis in architecture and urban design. His major emphasis and interest is to develop in depth understanding of nature, human aspects and urban ecology as the basis to design of built environment. He has written on small town urbanism, urban transformations, humanizing cities and has prepared documentary films on urban life with students in urban design. As a faculty he was also engaged on urban projects under the CEPT research and consultancy cell CRDC like lake development projects, slum redevelopment, old city revitalization, redevelopment of religious precincts, and road development projects.
  • Documentation of historical buildings and cities
  • Research — urban studies, habitat studies, urban ecology, human aspects, architecture and culture
  • Urban Design
  • Photography and video documentation
  • Humanising Cities — S‑2026
  • Humanising Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighborhood Place — S‑2025
  • Urban Design Theory — M‑2025
  • Humanising Urban Space: Social production and speculative design of neighborhood place — S‑2024
  • Humanising Architecture: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighborhood Place — M‑2024
  • HRW‑5 Urban Design Theory — M‑2024
  • Humanising Cities — S‑2023
  • HRW 5 — Urban Design Theory — M‑2023
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  3. National Jounal ’ Insite’ Child in the city
  4. National Jounal ’ Insite’ Human interactions
  5. National Jounal ’ Insite’ In Street
  6. National Journal ’ Insite’ Sacred spaces
  7. National Journal ’ Insite’ Humanising Cities, a prologue
  8. Paper publication for conference proceedings of international Conference CSAAR2008 on ’ Responsibilites and opportunities in Architecturtal Conservation: Theory, Education and Practice’ Revitalization Strategy for Walled City of Jaipur
  9. Matara: Structuring dispersion — Edt Anojie Amerasinghe, Michiel Dehaene, EU publication Land Management Strategies
  10. Studio investigations in south asian urban design — Edt Anojie Amerasinghe, Michiel Dehaene, Andre Leockx, EU publication Small Town Urbanism

Conference

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Journal

  1. READING A CITY: FORM AND EXPERIENCE — Guest lecture at Institute of Design Education and Architectural Studies (IDEAS), Nagpur
  2. INDIAN URBAN SPACE: THE CHALLENGES AND EMERGING CONCEPTS — Guest speaker at the NATCON
  3. URBAN SYSTEMS IN INDIAN URBANISM — Guest lecture at International Studio for European and Indian students at Foot Prints — EARTH, Ahmedabad
  4. HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION — Guest lecture at Bachelor of Planning, Faculty of Planning, CEPT, Ahmedabad
  5. HUMANISING CITIES — Guest lecture at Dept. of Architecture, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
  6. HISTORY OF URBANISM — Expert lectures for Bachelor of Architecture at IPSA
  7. HUMANISING CITIES — Guest lecture at Vasad School of Architecture
  8. SACRED SPACES — Guest lecture at Vastu Shilpa Foundation International Design Studio, Ahmedabad
  9. STREET — Guest lecture for Bachelor of Planning studio, Faculty of Planning, CEPT, Ahmedabad
  10. URBAN DESIGN IN INDIA — Guest lecture at Faculty of Planning Interactive studio, CEPT, Ahmedabad
  11. URBANISM, URBAN DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND HUMANISING CITIES — Guest lecture at IED, Vidhyanagar

Others

  1. International Journal ’ My Liveable City’ City in focus: Ahmedabad