Manish Chalana Editor & Author

Manish Chalana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington with adjunct appointments in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture departments. He also serves on the faculty of the South Asia Studies program in the Jackson School of International Studies. Additionally, Dr Chalana served as the director of the Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation and co-directs the Center for Preservation and Adaptive Reuse. His work focuses on historic preservation planning, planning history, and international planning and development, particularly in his native India, primarily through the lenses of social justice and equity.

Ashima Krishna is Associate Director at the Purdue Policy Research Institute and Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University. She is an architect and historic preservation planner whose research spans the management of historic urban landscapes and adaptive reuse of historic religious structures and landscapes, with a particular focus on intersection with community development issues and resulting policy challenges. Dr. Krishna has examined issues related to historic preservation planning and urban conservation in the United States and India and continues to highlight the ways in which the historic built environment can be preserved, managed, and planned for.