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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Purdah Baghs in Old Delhi, India: Gendered Spaces in the Public Realm
Book Title:
Gender and the Indian City: Revisioning Design and Planning
Year
2022
Publisher
South Asia Press, New Delhi
Pages
260–275
Walking the Panchkroshi in Varanasi, India: Reclaiming the Landscape of Pilgrimage
Book Title:
The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific
Year
2022
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
Chattri and Kund: The Architecture of Kusum Sarovar, Govardhan, India
Book Title:
Water and Sacred Architecture
Year
2023
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
41–50
The Santhal house and cultural landscape in Shantiniketan, India
Book Title:
Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport
Year
2024
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
The book received the Environmental Design Research Association 2024 Achievement Award.
Memory, Sacred Landscapes, and Religious Tourism: Pilgrim Perceptions in Ayodhya, India
Book Title:
Research Agenda for Religious Tourism
Year
2024
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., London
Pages
Myth and Placemaking in Vrindavan, India
Book Title:
Sustainable Management of Historical Settlements in Asia: Role of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Year
2025
Publisher
Springer, Singapore
Pages
91–109
Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: Urban Insertion in an Iconic Landscape
Book Title:
Banaras: Imagined Landscape
Year
2025
Publisher
DAG Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Pages
57–70
Amita Sinha (ed.) Delhi’s Natural Heritage. New Delhi: INTACH and USIEF, 2009.
Designing Pilgrimage Sites
LA: Journal of Landscape Architecture, India, Vol. 1, No. 2
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
2001
Pages
14-17
Architecture and Identity in Colonial Discourse
Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, Vol. 66, Issue 10
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
November 2001
Pages
21-26
Reconstructing the Taj Mahal Heritage Landscape: Deconstructing the Tourist Gaze
LA: Journal of Landscape Architecture, India, Vol. 2, No. 1
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Spring 2002
Pages
14-18
Indian Architectural History: A Post-Colonial Perspective
The Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, Vol. 68, No. 7
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
December 2003
Pages
46-51
The Taj Mahal: Romance and Reality
Landscape Architecture Magazine, USA, Vol. 93, No. 9
Author(s)
Vincent Bellafiore, Terence Harkness, Amita Sinha, and James Wescoat, Jr.
Year
September 2003
Pages
50-60, 104
Landscape of the Taj: Possible Solutions
Guest Editorial to a special issue of Architecture+Design, India, Vol. XX, No. 6
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
November-December 2003
Pages
52-53
Taj Mahal Cultural Heritage District: Study in Open Space Types
Architecture+Design, India, Vol. XX, No. 6
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
November-December 2003
Pages
54-58
Sacred Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings
Geographical Review of India, vol. 65, No. 3
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
September 2003
Pages
241-250
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park: A Design Approach
International Studies of Heritage Studies, U.K, Vol. 10, No. 2
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
May 2004
Pages
117-128
Taj Heritage Corridor: Intersections between History and Culture in Designing the Yamuna Riverfront at Agra, India
Places, USA, Vol. 16, No. 2
Author(s)
Terence Harkness and Amita Sinha
Year
Spring 2004
Pages
62-69
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
