Krishnachandran Balakrishnan

Lead – Research

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Krishnachandran Balakrishnan works on urban spatial analysis research. His current focus is on developing methods for fine grained population and socio-economic mapping to understand spatial inequality in Indian cities, particularly in the context of urban water resources.

At IIH, he has been working on methods for mapping population at 30 m resolution, analysing inequality in access to domestic piped water supply and estimating urban groundwater budgets.


Education
2003
BArch, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi NCR, India
2008
Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States of America
2016
PhD, Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States of America

Geography of Work
Country
India, United States of America, Egypt
State
Karnataka
City
Bengaluru
Languages
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil

TEACHING AT IIHS

2022, Urban Sustainability, Ecology, Faculty member, Ecology, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)

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THEMATIC AREAS

Built Environment, Ecosystems, Information Science, Planning, Sustainability Science, Urban Inequality, Urban Science, Water and Sanitation