Kiran Chhiba

As a practicing urban designer and planner for approximately 10 years, Kiran Chhiba joins the University of Toronto as a sessional lecturer in the MUD programme.  Through investigations of varying scales and contexts, Kiran’s research interests have focused on open space in the city and the qualitative significance they present to the larger urban sphere.  These interests have also investigated the symbolic relation between human civil unrest and physical form of the city.

Kiran is a graduate of the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning and later completed his graduate degree from the University of Toronto’s Master of Urban Design. Kiran then joined Olin Partnership of Philadelphia, where he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania.  During this time Kiran was part of a team that won the Pratt Street Competition in Baltimore and worked on the Master Plan of the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx, New York among a series of other international projects.   Recently Kiran returned to Toronto to join the planningAlliance as an urban designer and continues to pursue his research interest.