NPTEL : NOC:Urbanization and Environment (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Jenia Mukherjee


Lecture 1 - Setting the Context

Lecture 2 - The Anthropocene

Lecture 3 - The Nine Planetary Boundaries Framework

Lecture 4 - The Capitalocene

Lecture 5 - The Urbanocene

Lecture 6 - COVID 19, Urban Informality and Environment

Lecture 7 - Sanitary Cities: Urban, Environment and Modernity in the West

Lecture 8 - Networked Cities: Path-dependent Consequences

Lecture 9 - From Sanitary to Sustainable Cities

Lecture 10 - How sustainable? Critical analysis of contemporary urban models

Lecture 11 - Historical Pasts

Lecture 12 - Colonial Urbanization

Lecture 13 - Limits and Legacies of Colonial Urbanization

Lecture 14 - The Post-independence Scenario: Planned Cities and Renewal Missions

Lecture 15 - Smart Cities

Lecture 16 - Smart Cities: Critique and Contestations

Lecture 17 - Fantasy Cities? Understanding Limits of Smart, Eco and Green Doctrines

Lecture 18 - Fantasy Cities? Understanding Limits of Smart, Eco and Green Doctrines Case (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Fantasy Cities? Understanding Limits of Smart, Eco and Green Doctrines Case (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - Urban Environmental History: The US Part I: Context and Themes

Lecture 21 - Urban Environmental History: The US Part II: More Thematic Variations and Global

Lecture 22 - Urban Environmental History: Europe Part I: Context and Themes

Lecture 23 - Urban Environmental History: Europe Part II: Recent Advances

Lecture 24 - Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part I.A: The Prelude: Inception

Lecture 25 - Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part I.B: (More) Nuanced Narratives

Lecture 26 - Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part II: Trends and Trajectories

Lecture 27 - Urban Environmental History: South Asia [SAUEH] Part II: Trends and Trajectories (Continued...)

Lecture 28 - Urban Political Ecology Part I: Emergence and Development

Lecture 29 - Urban Political Ecology Part II: (More) Recent Advances

Lecture 30 - Urban Political Ecology Part III: Internal Debates and New Political Possibilities

Lecture 31 - Urban Political Ecology: The Indian Context Part I: Themes and Concepts

Lecture 32 - Urban Political Ecology: The Indian Context Part II: (More) Recent Advances

Lecture 33 - Historical Urban Political Ecology (HUPE): Blue Infrastructures of Kolkata

Lecture 34 - Urban Environmentalisms

Lecture 35 - Urban Environmentalisms: Case Study 1: The Adi Ganga Bachao Andolan

Lecture 36 - Urban Environmentalisms: Case Study 2: Protests to Protect the EKW

Lecture 37 - Translocal Learning for Water Justice: Peri-urban Pathways in India, Tanzania and ...

Lecture 38 - Informing Urban Disaster Studies using Comparative Urban Environmentalism

Lecture 39 - Urban Environmental Heritage: Insights from Bengal’s Mini-Europe

Lecture 40 - The Way Forward