Mallika Bose

About

Mallika Bose is an architect and urban planner with educational credentials from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, and the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India. She also holds a specialization in environment-behavior studies from Kansas State University and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She serves as a professor and the graduate program coordinator in the Department of Landscape Architecture and is the associate dean for research, creative activity, and graduate studies at the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State. Her research focuses on understanding how social structures are embedded within the built environment and how socio-spatial constructions influence the behavior of different societal groups. Bose has been actively involved in research areas including built environment and active living/healthy eating, public scholarship and community-based design, gender and development, and design/planning pedagogy. She has served as the interim director of the Hamer Center for Community Design at Penn State and currently serves on the board of directors of the Environmental Design Research Association, having previously served as its chair. Her scholarly contributions include publications in various academic journals such as the Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, Landscape Journal, Habitat International, and others. She has also co-edited a book on community-engaged teaching and scholarship titled 'Community Matters:…

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Social Science
• Geography
• Business
• Economic growth
• Economics
• Environmental science
• Archaeology
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Power through social networks: A case study of urban farmers facing land development in Delhi, India

  Habitat International · 2022 · 10 citations

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• A sustainable livelihoods approach to measuring mobilization of resources through social networks among vulnerable populations: A case study of Delhi farmers

  Social Sciences & Humanities Open · 2023 · 5 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Social networks can provide access to tangible and intangible resources, particularly important among vulnerable groups who often establish relationships to meet daily needs and sustain livelihoods. However, it is not just the number of resources available through social networks, but rather the quality and stability—and ability to access them when needed. There is growing consensus that social networks provide access to resources, but the focus on measuring structural attributes of networks doe…

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• Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India

  Urban Studies · 2023-07-14 · 5 citations

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  Increasing purchases of valuable real estate for storing capital have contributed to the soaring prices of modest housing in many global cities and in several South Asian cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Saskia Sassen has drawn attention to the phenomenon of underutilisation of purchased properties existing alongside the acute demand for housing by low- and moderate-income households in the same cities. Despite the gravity of this issue, empirical analyses of urban land transactions r…

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• What are States Doing to Encourage Safe Routes to School Programming in Disadvantaged Communities? Findings From a U.S. Mixed-Methods Survey

  Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 2022-12-16 · 5 citations

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  Active transportation (AT), walking/bicycling for transportation, in school-aged children (K-12) provides a variety of health benefits for those who participate. One state-funded initiative which attempts to increase AT among schoolchildren are Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. These programs implement education and encouragement projects, as well as infrastructure-related construction. Although these programs have shown significant success in increasing AT behavior and safety throughout ma…

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• A Social and Spatial Network Approach to Understanding Beliefs and Behaviors of Farmers Facing Land Development in Delhi, India

  Human dynamics in smart cities · 2018-07-24 · 5 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Paula Horrigan

  Cornell University

  4 shared

• Liza S. Rovniak

  Pennsylvania State University

  3 shared

• A. Matthiessen

  University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

  3 shared

• Jessica Ann Diehl

  National University of Singapore

  3 shared

• Deborah S. Main

  3 shared

• Lucas D. Elliott

  Pennsylvania State University

  3 shared

• Melissa Bopp

  3 shared

• Freedman

  Wyoming Department of Education

  2 shared

Education

• B.A., Architecture

  Jadavpur University

• M.A., Urban Planning

  School of Planning and Architecture

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