From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South (PDF)

Frédéric Landy is Director, French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and Professor and head, Department of Geography, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense (formerly Paris 10), France. He was earlier Fellow, centre Mosaïques, UMR LAVUE, Honorary Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, and Associate Fellow, Centre for Studies on India and South Asia (CEIAS) (CNRS-EHESS), Paris. He has a Ph.D. in geography from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is board member of the AQAPA project 'To whom do the landscapes belong ? Touristification in southern Asian highlands: social dynamics and landscape heritagisation of ethnic minorities in rural areas' (funded by the French National Agency for Research), and was Head of the UNPEC project 'Urban National Parks in Emerging Countries - Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Cape Town, Nairobi' funded by the French National Agency for Research. Some of his published works include: Feeding India. The spatial parameters of food grain policy (2009); Food and agriculture in India. From Independence to globalization (coauthored with B. Dorin, 2009); Megacity slums. Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India (coedited with M.C. Saglio-Yatzimirsky, 2013), and so on.