ABSTRACT
The Yamuna River Project is a research program founded at the University of Virginia – later expanded to Tulane University – by professors Iñaki Alday and Pankaj Vir Gupta focused on the city of New Delhi and its river. The project aims to help the city and its stakeholders to reimagine and transform the sacred, yet one of the most polluted urban rivers in the world, Yamuna by offering research-based analysis and solutions for dysfunctional river-city environments. Framed through multidisciplinary lenses, the investigation of the urban degradation of the capital of the largest democracy in the world spans from history to the multiple urban layers (social, environmental, cultural, infrastructural, or governance) and their spatial implications. The project methodology and structure has recently expanded to Jaipur, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, under severe water stress.
