Dr. S. K. Kulshrestha is a senior academic and planning professional with over four decades of experience in teaching, research, and professional practice in urban and regional planning. He is a senior consultant in the field, a Visiting Professor at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, the founder-editor of Spatio-economic Development Record (SDR)—a journal on urban and regional planning published since 1994—and a Member of the Rajasthan Commission on Urbanisation.
Dr Kulshrestha has contributed to the preparation of master plans for ten major cities in India and Nigeria, and was involved in the formulation of the Master Plan of Delhi 2001 and 2021, as well as the Regional Plan for the National Capital Region 2021, as a member of expert groups. He also served as the Principal Coordinator of the Government of India’s landmark research study, Urban Development Plan Formulation and Implementation (UDPFI) Guidelines.
He is also the author of Dictionary of Urban and Regional Planning (2006).
