Himanshi Kapoor

Program Associate - Urban Development

Bio

Himanshi Kapoor is a Program Associate with the Urban Development team at the Sustainable Cities and Transport program at WRI, India. She works at the intersection of urban planning and climate change. Her portfolio consists of projects under the ClimateSmart Cities initiative and others related to Land Value Capture, Livable Neighborhoods and Transit Oriented Development.

Prior to joining WRI India, she worked as a Project Architect in an architecture and interior design firm in Delhi.

Himanshi holds a master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a bachelor’s from MBS School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. She has also completed several certificate courses on managing cities.

In her free time, Himanshi enjoys making graffiti sketches, cooking and playing with her dog. She also enjoys cycling and believes it keeps her heart happy.

Blogs

Pink City to Green City: Building Jaipur’s Climate Resilience through Nature-based Solutions
by Himanshi Kapoor and Siddharth Thyagarajan - August 31, 2023
The second blog in our two-part blog series illustrates four pilot community based ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NbS) interventions in Jaipur that address climate induced heat stress and water scarcity. The first blog in the series introduced the
Unpacking Nature-based Solutions for Building Climate Resilience in Semi-arid Cities: Learnings From Jaipur
by Siddharth Thyagarajan, Himanshi Kapoor, Priya Narayanan and Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta - March 30, 2023
India ranks 7th out of 181 countries in vulnerability to climate associated risks. This two-part blog series explores the opportunities that Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can offer to tackle the challenges posed by climate change and how they can be translated to climate-
7 Tools for Aiding Adolescent Engagement in the Development Processes
by Himanshi Kapoor, Rajeev Malagi and Khushboo Rani - January 13, 2023
Disclaimer: All pictures are of participants in the Healthy Cities for Adolescents (HCA) project and have been taken with their consent.

This is the second blog in a two-part series on Adolescents and Public Spaces. This blog touches upon the importance of adolescent inclusion in public space development processes by focusing on engagement as one of the ways this can be
Resurrecting Public Spaces in a post-Covid India
by Himanshi Kapoor, Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta and Jaya Dhindaw - October 26, 2021
This blog was first published on NIUA.org on October 21, 2021.

The COVID-19 lockdown, imposed around the world, has triggered unprecedented changes in the
Five Ways to Promote Public Transport in Indian Cities
by Himanshi Kapoor and Amit Bhatt - December 10, 2020
This blog was originally published on NIUA.org.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) estimates that INR 39,20,000 crore (USD 600 billion) needs to be invested, between 2011-31, of which about
Going local for Climate Action
by Himanshi Kapoor and Prerna Vijaykumar Mehta - June 10, 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our times and is proving to be one of the greatest challenges faced by humanity. It is wreaking havoc around the globe and has forced most of human work to shut down. However, these uncertain times have inadvertently helped the

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Himanshi Kapoor

Pink City to Green City: Building Jaipur’s Climate Resilience through Nature-based Solutions

Unpacking Nature-based Solutions for Building Climate Resilience in Semi-arid Cities: Learnings From Jaipur

7 Tools for Aiding Adolescent Engagement in the Development Processes

Resurrecting Public Spaces in a post-Covid India

Five Ways to Promote Public Transport in Indian Cities

Going local for Climate Action

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