About Us
UrbAnatomy Lab is a New Delhi-based think tank and consulting practice focused on providing design and urban planning solutions at multiple scales. We have worked on some of the most critical urban development issues experienced by communities in India and the Global South today. These involve fortifying people, places and institutions against the disaster risks due to Climate Change.
Our work has involved adaptation and mitigation measures like area-based and pan-city strategies for decarbonising transportation and urban mobility in Indian cities; disaster risk management; restoration of natural resources; nature based solutions; road safety; street and junction design; placemaking; community outreach; advocacy; and visual communication and messaging around these issues.
As a multidisciplinary collaborative, we follow our design-test-iterate approach of making our spaces and cities more engaging, inclusive, healthy and enjoyable. Our process centers on the people and communities we serve being co-designers of their environments. Our team has as much academic experience as on-ground implementation and we continuously strive to optimise design to create thriving urban systems that are sustainable and efficient for, both, people and the planet.
People
Parul Sharma
Founder and Director
Parul is a sustainable urban development strategist with over 15 years of experience in urban design, planning and architecture at award-winning firms in India and the United States. She has worked on solutions in integrated urban planning, climate resilience, GHG mitigation, urban mobility, and placemaking, at private, non-profit and multilateral organisations like the UN-Habitat. Parul divides her time consulting on projects, teaching at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and working on City Scanner, an urban mobility tech platform she is developing to provide smarter trip planning tools for improved cyclist and pedestrian experiences. Parul graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, with a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design. She has a B.Arch degree from USAP, Indraprastha University, Delhi. Parul received the 2021 GSAPP Incubator Prize, and the Kinne Traveling Fellows Prize, from Columbia University, where she currently serves as a Board Member of the GSAPP Alumni Board. In her free time, she enjoys playing badminton, creating collages, and hanging out with her cat, Allegra.
Collaborators
Ariela Valverde
Architect and Urban Planner, Italy Co-founder, Urbanalytica An architect and MSc. in Urban Planning and Policies, Ariela is a 2021 Climate Ambassador at the Global Youth Climate Network of the World Bank Group. Her academic and professional practice are focused on sustainable development, gender-inclusive cities, and urban health.
Suruchi Sharma
Visual Artist, Designer and Engineer, India Suruchi is a visual artist, designer, and ex-engineer currently based in New Delhi, India. Her educational background is in Electrical Engineering and she has an M.S in Visualization Science from Texas A&M University. She has worked as a visual communication designer for marketing and product development teams, and as a software engineer. She works at the intersection of Art, Design, Technology and Nature.
Juliana Vergas
Architect and Metaverse Researcher, Costa Rica Juliana is an Associate Architect at EU Gensler Co-Leader Digital Labs. She has over 8 years of experience in a wide array of Architecture Practice areas such as Retail, Repositioning, Master planning and User Experience Design. She is passionate about innovative strategies supporting clients to reach their full workforce potential and making them fit for the future, and integrating physical spaces and digital innovation services.
Maria Jose Jimenez
Urban Planner and Civil Engineer PhD candidate, IUSS Pavia, Italy