Smart Metropolitan Regional Development

Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar has 48 years of professional experience in the areas of Urban and Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Infrastructure, Urban Environmental Management, Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) in Urban Planning, Models in Planning, Urban Design and Smart Cities. He has gained vast consultancy experience in urban and rural development, infrastructure, tourism and healthcare throughout India, and in new town planning and development, city centre and housing planning in Malaysia. He has worked in Bhutan, China, Pakistan, Nepal, e.g. as a Regional Program Coordinator. Academically he has worked at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as a Professor, Head of the Urban Planning Department, Head of the Centre for Analysis and Systems Studies, Head of the Centre for Urban Studies, and finally as Dean of Studies for the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He has also worked as a Planner-Engineer with the Ford Foundation, India.He has been a Visiting Professor at the Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia, and now at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He is the author of many books and journal articles, and has been a Project Manager for many consulting projects in India and abroad.

• The concept and practice of Smart Metropolitan Regional Development.- Metropolitan Region of Abuja, the New Capital of Nigeria.- Surat Metropolitan Region Gujarat, India.- Kozhikode Metropolitan Region, Kerala, India.- National Capital Metropolitan Region Delhi, India.- Metropolitan Region of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa.- Metropolitan Region Naples, Italy.- Metropolitan Region of Chandigarh India.- Metropolitan Region Stuttgart, Germany.- Conclusions.