Publications
Over three decades of academic work, Amita Sinha has authored, edited, and contributed to a significant body of scholarship on cultural landscapes, heritage planning, and spatial practices. Her publications span books, monographs, journal articles, and book chapters that explore the relationship between place, memory, and meaning. With over 100 peer-reviewed articles and contributions to major international volumes, her writing bridges theory and practice in architecture, landscape, and urbanism.
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Sinha, Amita. Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2006
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Sinha, Amita. Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2006
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Landscape Perception: Readings in Environmental Psychology — Edited by Amita Sinha. London: Academic Press, 1995.
Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management — Edited by Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha. New York: Routledge, 2017.
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Cultural Landscape of the Mother Goddess at Pavagadh
Book Title:
Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia: Essays in Memory of David Kinsley
Year
2010
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages
125–142
Sacred Landscapes of Govardhan in Braj, India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed
Book Title:
Holy Places and Pilgrimages: Essays on India
Year
2011
Publisher
Shubhi Publications, New Delhi
Pages
149–164
Architectural History in India—A Post Colonial Perspective
Book Title:
Pracyaprajnapradipa: Professor Dr Samaresh Bandyopadhyay Felicitation Volume on Early Indian History and Culture
Year
2012
Publisher
North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Tennessee, USA; Kolkata: Arunima Printing Works
Pages
476–486
Cultural heritage and Sacred Landscapes of South Asia: Reclamation of Govardhan in Braj, India
Book Title:
Asian Heritage Management: Contexts, Concerns, and Prospects
Year
2013
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
176–188
Memorial Parks to Begum Hazrat Mahal and Mayawati in Lucknow, India
Book Title:
Woman’s Eye, Woman’s Hand: Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Year
2014
Publisher
Zubaan Books, New Delhi
Pages
92–113
City of Nawabs to City of Elephants: Urban Transformation in Lucknow, India
Book Title:
Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design: Finding Center in Theory and Practice
Year
2015
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge
Pages
174–197
Introduction
Book Title:
Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Year
2017
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
1–10
Amita Sinha (ed.) Delhi’s Natural Heritage. New Delhi: INTACH and USIEF, 2009.
Jamshedpur: Planning an Ideal Steel City in India
Journal of Planning History, USA, vol. 10, no. 4
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and Jatinder Singh
Year
2011
Pages
263-281
Yamuna, Krishna, and Landscape Heritage of Braj: Conservation Model for Vishram Ghat, Mathura
Abacus, India, vol. 6, no. 1
Author(s)
Annie Varma and Amita Sinha
Year
Sp 2011
Pages
77-85
Cultural Heritage and Sacred Landscapes of South Asia: Reclamation of Govardhan in Braj, India
Spandrel, India, no. 3
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Monsoon 2011
Pages
58-66
Grounded Theories and Place Ethnographies
Architecture+Design, India, vol. xxviii, no. 10
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
October 2011
Pages
146-150
Conservation Model for Vishram Ghat, Mathura
Architecture+Design, India, vol. XXIX, no. 4
Author(s)
Annie Varma and Amita Sinha
Year
April 2012
Pages
84-89
City of Nawabs to City of Elephants: Urban Transformation of Lucknow
Journal of Landscape Architecture, India, vol. 68, no. 37
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and Rajat Kant
Year
2013
Pages
68-76
Oracle Landscape of Orchha: Reclaiming the Lost Heritage
Spandrel, India, no. 7
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and Ana Valderrama
Year
2013
Pages
1-12
Claude Martin and the Gomti Riverfront
Architecture+Design, India, vol. xxx, no. 4
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
April 2013
Pages
98-103
Restoration of the Gomti Riverfront in Lucknow” Claude Martin’s Legacy
Marg, India, vol 65, no. 3
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
March 2014
Pages
78-87
Gaze and the Picturesque Landscape of Amber, India
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly, 34, no. 4
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and Neha Rajora
Year
October-December 2014
Pages
309-322
Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives & Housing, Culture and Designs
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
Author(s)/Editor(s)
James Duncan (ed.); Setha M. Low & Erve Chambers (eds.)
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Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1989, pp. 104-106
Man in the Landscape
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Paul Shepard
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Vol. 12, No. 4, 1995
The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal
Geographical Review of India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Elizabeth Moynihan (ed.)
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Vol. 64, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 292-294
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Architecture+Design, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Michael Pollan
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Vol. XXII, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 96-98
Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History
Architecture+Design, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
John Dixon Hunt & Michel Conan (eds.)
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Vol. XXIII, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 98-101
Lucknow: Then and Now
Architecture+Design, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (ed.)
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Vol. XXIV, No. 2, February 2007, pp. 118-119
At City’s Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront
Journal of Urban Design, U.K.
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Bob Thall
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Vol. 12, No. 2, 2007, pp. 329-331
House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
Architecture+Design, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Clare Cooper Marcus
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Vol. XXIV, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 116-118
Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
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Author(s)/Editor(s)
Jyoti Hosagrahar
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2007
Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision
Architecture+Design, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Dianne Harris & D. Fairchild Ruggles (eds.)
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Vol. XXVI, No. 6, June 2009, pp. 110-114
Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
Journal of Landscape Architecture, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Michel Conan (ed.)
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Vol. 7, No. 1, Monsoon 2009, pp. 105-107
Transforming the Disciplinary Boundary, Outside Design Exhibition
Tekton
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Jonathan Solomon (curator)
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Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2016, pp. 88-90
Pop-up Megacity, Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity
Tekton
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Rahul Mehrotra & Felipe Vera (eds.)
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Vol. 3, No. 2, September 2016, pp. 108-111
Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism
Journal of Landscape Architecture, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Jyoti Hosagrahar
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2016-17
Ethnography for Designers
Tekton: A Journal of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning, India
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Galen Cranz
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Vol. 5, No. 5, March 2018, pp. 96-99
Colonialism, Uprising and the Urban Transformation of Nineteenth Century Delhi
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Jyoti Pandey Sharma
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Vol. 35, No. 1, 2023, pp. 90-91
