Smruti Jukur

Biography

Smruti J is an urban development professional working base in India and extended work in Asia and Sub-Saharan African cities. Smruti is currently the Programme leader at SPARC-Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centre which is an affiliate for the transnational Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network, which spans over 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. She is presently based at Mumbai and works on projects in India and within the network of SDI especially in South East Asia, Sub-saharan Africa. The network operates from the premise that organized communities of the urban poor are central to the generation of inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. SDI federations organize around daily savings, profiling and enumerating their settlements, and partnering with government to implement incremental upgrading of slums. She works closely on the “Know Your City” Campaign which is mapping and creating digital footprints of community-led informal settlement profiling, and mapping, the KYC campaign supports partnerships between local governments and city . She has worked with Planning and Architecture Universities and published on a number of topics of relevance to her work at SPARC and SDI. Smruti is an Architect and holds a Masters in Urban Planning with special focus on Informal Habitat, Infrastructure and Transport planning and Design from CEPT University, Ahmedabad