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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The public realm of heritage sites in India: sustainable approaches towards planning and management
Book Title:
Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Year
2017
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
227–240
Grounded speculations on cultural landscape conservation
Book Title:
Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Year
2017
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
241–257
Taj Mahal Cultural Heritage District
Book Title:
Landscape Observatory: The Work of Terence Harkness
Year
2018
Publisher
Applied Research+Design Publishing
Pages
56–63
Planning the Company Town as a Garden City
Book Title:
Jamshedpur: 100 Years and Counting
Year
2020
Publisher
Marg Publications
Pages
42–53
Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi, India: the making of a vernacular urban landscape and its conservation
Book Title:
The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific
Year
2020
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
248–260
Ghats on the Ganga in Varanasi: A sustainable approach to landscape conservation
Book Title:
Heritage Conservation Practice in Postcolonial India: Regional Approaches and Challenges
Year
2020
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
221–234
Taj Mahal
Book Title:
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Year
2022
Publisher
SpringerLink
Pages
Amita Sinha (ed.) Delhi’s Natural Heritage. New Delhi: INTACH and USIEF, 2009.
Pilgrimage to Yamuna Riverfront at Agra, India
Marg Publications, India, Vol. 56, No. 1
Author(s)
Terence Harkness and Amita Sinha
Year
September 2004
Pages
The Goshree Roadlink, Kochi, India: A Design Approach Towards Creating a Legible Streetscape
Indian Highways, India
Author(s)
Arun George, Amita Sinha, and Varkki George
Year
August 2004
Pages
77-86
Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India: Challenges and Responses in Cultural Heritage Planning and Design
Tourism Recreation Research, India, Vol. 29, No. 3
Author(s)
Amita Sinha, Gary Kesler, D. Fairchild Ruggles, and James Wescoat Jr.
Year
2004
Pages
75-78
The Yamuna Riverfront, India: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Hindu Traditions in Cultural Landscapes
Landscape Journal, USA, Vol. 23, No. 2
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and D. Fairchild Ruggles
Year
2004
Pages
141-152
Traditional Cultural Landscapes Along the Yamuna Riverfront India
Geographical Review of India
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and D. Fairchild Ruggles
Year
2005
Pages
The Goshree Roadlink, Kochi: A Design Approach Towards Creating a Legible Landscape
Journal of Urban Design, U.K., Vol. 10, No. 2
Author(s)
Arun George, Amita Sinha and Varkki George Pallathucheril
Year
June 2005
Pages
275-287
Reinventing People’s Place
Architecture+Design, India, Vol. XXII, No. 9
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
September 2005
Pages
54-58
Cultural Landscape of Pavagadh: The Abode of Mother Goddess, Kalika
Journal of Cultural Geography, USA, Vol. 22, No. 1
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Spring/Summer 2006
Pages
89-103
Rockfort Temple at Tiruchirapalli, India: Conservation of a Sacred Landscape
International Journal of Heritage Studies, U.K., Vol. 12, No. 5
Author(s)
Raghunathan Aparna and Amita Sinha
Year
June 2006
Pages
489-504
Living Legacies
Architecture+Design, India, Vol. XXIII, No. 7
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
July 2006
Pages
84-94
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
Review Detail
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
