Amar
Kulkarni
Who actually makes the city?
I work on the distance between a climate plan and the street: the departments, councils, courts, markets and people who decide whether it happens. In the Himalaya, in Panaji, and in my own city, Pune.
Climate · Governance · Policy · Planning · Justice
Himachal Pradesh
All 7 →Since 2023: technical support to the Directorate of Transport on moving a Himalayan state to electric mobility, with ICLEI South Asia.
Electric mountains
Helping a Himalayan state become a Model State for Electric Vehicles: a roadmap, a readiness framework, and the committees that make them move. Himachal Pradesh2023 —
Charging the Himalaya
Himachal Pradesh2023 —
Electric freight for a truck town
Baddi, Himachal Pradesh2023 – 25
Five model EV towns
Himachal Pradesh2023 – 25
Charge where you stay
Himachal Pradesh2024 – 25
Buses, autos and waste trucks
Himachal Pradesh2023 —
Government goes electric
Himachal Pradesh2023 —Goa & Panaji
All 13 →2019 – 2023: working inside the Corporation of the City of Panaji on climate, mobility, water, waste, public space and city partnerships, with ICLEI South Asia.
The last mile
The first time an Indian city planned specifically for low-carbon freight, from counting deliveries to putting electric vans on the road. Panaji, Goa2019 – 23
The parking problem
Panaji, Goa2020 – 23
Streets for people
Fontainhas, Panaji2021 – 22
Signs, junctions, bus stands
Panaji, Goa2020 – 23
Where the water goes
Panaji, Goa2022 – 23
Waste, circularity, planning
Panaji, Goa2023
Second-use water
Panaji, Goa2023
The line in the sand
How misdrawn maps, weak enforcement and informal networks let coastal violations happen, at one of Goa's turtle-nesting beaches. Morjim, Goa2022 —
A river, engineered
Pune2026
Forests on paper
Pune2026
What the Assembly was told
Goa2026 —Why cities keep building flyovers
India2026 —Reviewing the IPCC
Global2026
A metabolic sketch of Pune
PuneTU Berlin
The Space Within
How Indian cities are shaped, by plans, roads, land markets, courts and the people who live in them, and the public spaces that hold them together. Filmed in Pune with 22 architects, planners, activists, lawyers and historians.
Urban ecological infrastructure
Green, blue and grey infrastructure working together, so a growing city can keep its ecosystems alive. Pune2016 – 17
Hour City
Pune2017
Envisioning Pune 2040
Pune2015
The Boulevard
Pune2015
Rangmati–Nagmati riverfront
Jamnagar, Gujarat2014- Governance · Jun 2025
When the state won't enforce its own laws
A case for independent oversight that steps in when political pressure stops enforcement.
- Parking · Dec 2022
Reforms in Panaji's pay and park policy
Data, congestion pricing and municipal traffic control for a city built for 15,000.
- Public space · May 2025
Is this development, or just vertical isolation?
Gated towers, polluted air and the fragmentation of urban life.
Art
See the art →Urban Space Lab: illustrations, watercolours, sketches and objects, since 2006.
