Vineetha Nalla

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EDUCATION:
2017    MSc, Building & Urban Design in Development, DPU, London
2015    BArch, School of Planning & Architecture, Bhopal

  

Countries: India, Great Britain, Italy, Myanmar
States: Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat
Cities: Bhopal, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad
Languages: English, Hindi, Telugu

Vineetha Nalla has a Masters in Building & Urban Design in Development, DPU, London and works in the Risk and Resilience team. She has experience as an Architect and Urban Designer having practiced in Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. During her time in UCL, she worked on projects investigating spaces for co-existence and new practices of inhabiting and home-making for refugee integration in Brescia, Italy; and proposals of people-centered collaborations for slum upgrading in Yangon, Myanmar. She had previously worked on street level urban design proposals for the Metro Rail project in Hyderabad. Her primary interests lie in housing studies, policy, risk perception analysis, climate studies and governance.

Journal Article

  • Few, R., Ranjit, N., Nalla, V., Jain, G., Tebboth, M. G. L., Singh, C., Chhotray, V., & Marsh, H. (2023). ‘We are not in the same boat’: Representations of disaster and recovery in India. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Article 103709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103709
  • Nalla, V., Johnson, C., Ranjit, N., Sen, G., Peddibhotla, A., Anand, M. C., Bhatia, N., & Bazaz, A. B. (2022). Considering curriculum, content, and delivery for adaptive pathways: Higher education and disaster resilient infrastructure in the Indian urban context. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 8(1), 143–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2022.2134645
  • Nalla, V., Ranjit, N., & Jain, G. (2021). Representations of disaster recovery needs: A study of legal frameworks and litigation in Odisha. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 57, 102163.

 

Books/Book Chapter

  • Sen, G., Nalla V., & Ranjit, N., (2022), Rebuilding livelihoods to reduce disaster vulnerabilities. In F. Nunan, B. Clare, & K. Sukanya (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South (pp. 460-469). Routledge.
  • Nalla, V., Ranjit, N., Udupa, Y., Madhavan, M., Arvind, J., Jain, G., & Malladi, T. (2022). In V. Nalla & N. Ranjit (Eds.), Afterwards: Graphic narratives of disaster risk and recovery from India. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Johnson, C., Jain, G., Nalla, V., & Cáceres-Martínez, J. D. (2021). Risk as a subjective concept and its influence on decision-making. In C. Johnson, G. Jain, A. Lavell (Eds.), Rethinking urban risks and resettlement in the global South (pp. 77-95). UCL Press.

 

Other Writing 

  • Sen, G., & Nalla, V. (2020, June 04). What lessons can India’s west coast learn from the cyclone-weathered east?. Science The wire
  • Ranjit, N., & Nalla, V. (2020, May 13). How India’s experience in managing disasters can inform our COVID-19 response. Deccan Herald.
  • Nalla, V., & Ranjit, N., (2020, February 5). Beyond preparedness. The Hindu.
  • Nalla, V., Udupa, Y., & Dhanapal, G. (2019). Recovering from the tsunami: A case of long-term engagement to build resilience in Nagapattinam. IIHS Case No 1-0036. Bangalore. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Jain, G., Nalla, V., Malladi, T., Chattareji, N., & Ranjit, N. (2019). A road to long-term recovery for Odisha.  Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Yaseen, S. M., Nalla, V., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., … Malladi, T. (2018). Navi  Mumbai city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Jain, S., Nalla, V., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., … Malladi, T. (2018). Vijayawada city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Yaseen, S. M., Aishwarya, K. S., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., … Nalla, V. (2018). Cuttack city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Jain, S., Bandagi, A., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., … Nalla, V. (2018). Vishakhapatnam city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Jain, S., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., Yaseen, S. M., …  Nalla, V. (2018). Dharamshala city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Yaseen, S. M., Jain, S., Nalla, V., Dhanapal, G., Jain, G., Anand, G., … Malladi, T. (2018). Shimla city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Dhanapal, G., Jain, S., Anand, G., Raju, J. S. M., Yaseen, S. M., Jain, G., … Nalla, V. (2018). Shillong city profile: Developing resilient cities through risk reduction. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Joseph, J., Jain, G., Awasthi, S., Gangte, T., Sriram, A., Sen, G … Vadehra, N. (2018). Leadership for disaster resilience: Learning from the current practices in India. Bengaluru: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Nalla, V., & Anand A. (2016). A landscape of memories: Reviving the heritage urban landscape of Motiya talab, Bhopal. In CPUD ’16 / International City Planning and Urban Design Conference Proceedings (pp. 267-283). Istanbul: DAKAM.
  • Nalla, V., & Anand A. (2015). Re-discovering sher-e-khas: An urban palimpsest of the walled city of Bhopal. In Third International Conference on Cities, people and places ICCPP-2015 (pp. 366-382). Sri Lanka: University of Moratuwa.
  • Nalla, V., & Anand A. (2015). Indian cities in new global economy –engaging nostalgia and reality through philosophy of symbiosis. In Re-Discovering Cities conference (pp. 256-262). Sadopur, Ambala: Saurabh Medical Publishers.