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.
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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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Women’s Local Space—Home and Neighborhood
Author(s):
Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Bridging Worlds—Studies on Women in South Asia
Editor(s):
Sally Sutherland
Year
1991
Publisher
Center for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Pages
Participant Observation: A Study of State-aided Self-help Housing in Lucknow, India
Author(s):
Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Housing the Poor in the Developing World—Methods of Analysis, Case Studies, and Policy
Editor(s):
Graham Tipple & Kenneth Willis
Year
1991
Publisher
Routledge, New York
Pages
16–34
Introduction: Varieties of Nature Viewing
Author(s):
Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Landscape Perception: Readings in Environmental Psychology
Editor(s):
Amita Sinha
Year
1995
Publisher
Academic Press, London
Pages
Cultural Heritage Planning of Sacred Sites—A Case Study of Rockfort Temple at Tiruchirapalli
Author(s):
Aparna Raghunathan and Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Sangama—A Confluence of Art and Culture During the Vijayanagar Period
Editor(s):
Nalini Rao
Year
2006
Publisher
Original, Delhi
Pages
133–144
Complex Landscapes and the Ramayana Legend
Author(s):
Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Pilgrimage: Complexity and Cosmos
Editor(s):
J. McKim Malville and Baidyanath Saraswati
Year
2009
Publisher
D.K. Printworld, Delhi
Pages
138–149
Preserving the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India
Author(s):
D. Fairchild Ruggles and Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Intangible Heritage Embodied
Editor(s):
D. Fairchild Ruggles and Helaine Silverman
Year
2009
Publisher
Springer
Pages
79–100
Conserving Delhi’s Landscape Heritage
Author(s):
Amita Sinha
Book Title:
Delhi’s Natural Heritage
Editor(s):
Amita Sinha
Year
2009
Publisher
USIEF and INTACH, New Delhi
Pages
9–24
Amita Sinha (ed.) Delhi’s Natural Heritage. New Delhi: INTACH and USIEF, 2009.
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Courtyard Dwellings in India
Geographical Review of India, Vol. 55, No. 2
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
June 1993
Pages
36-47
The Centre as Void – Courtyard Dwellings in India
Open House International, U.K., Vol. 19, No. 4
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
1994
Pages
28-35
Pilgrimage – Journey to the Sacred Landscape of Braj
Rana P.B. Singh (ed.), The Spirit and Power and Place, Varanasi, India: The National Geographical Society of India, Pub. 41, Vol. 40
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
1994
Pages
239-248
Design Proposal for a Sacred Site – Sarnath, India
Landscape Design, U.K.
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
November 1994
Pages
34-36
Nature in Hindu Art, Architecture and Landscape
Landscape Research, U.K., Vol. 20, No.1
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Spring 1995
Pages
3-10
Landscape of Religion
Guest Editorial for a Special Issue of Landscape Research, U.K., Vol. 20, No. 1
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Spring 1995
Pages
1-2
Transformations in the Cultural Landscape of Lahore, Pakistan
Geographical Review of India, Vo. 57, No. 3
Author(s)
Saeeda Rasool and Amita Sinha
Year
1995
Pages
212-222
Decadence, Mourning and Revolution – Facets of Nineteenth Century Landscape of Lucknow, India
Landscape Research, K., No. 2
Author(s)
Amita Sinha
Year
Spring 1996
Pages
123-136
An Empirical Study of Feng-Shui in Landscape
Environments, Canada, Vol. 23, No. 3
Author(s)
Ke-Tsung Han and Amita Sinha
Year
1996
Pages
36-49
Urban Evolution and Transformation in Lucknow, India – A Comparative Study of its Streets
Open House International, U.K., Vol. 23, No. 1
Author(s)
Amita Sinha and Rajat Kant
Year
1997
Pages
34-42
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