Nived Narendran
Assistant Professor
Nived Narendran is an architect, urban designer and doctoral researcher whose work examines how the physical fabric of Indian cities shapes safety and social sustainability. He holds a B.Arch from Karpagam Academy of Higher Education and an M.Arch in Urban Design from the College of Engineering Trivandrum, and is a registered architect with the Council of Architecture, India. His doctoral research at SIMATS, Chennai develops a typo-morphological framework linking the layered fabric of Indian colonial cities to Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and to socially sustainable urban regeneration. His research interests span urban typo-morphology, heritage conservation and adaptive reuse, and vernacular low-carbon construction in the Laurie Baker tradition.
Expertise
1. Urban Typomorphology
2. Threshold Spaces and Heritage Streescapes
3. CPTED and Defensible Spaces
4. SDG 11 : Sustainable Cities and Communities
Research Interests
▪️ Urban typo-morphology and the historical layering of Indian colonial cities. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and safety-through-design in the Indian context.
▪️ Heritage conservation and adaptive reuse of religious, residential and civic built heritage
▪️ Vernacular architecture, low-carbon construction and the Laurie Baker tradition of cost-efficient ecological design.
▪️ Design-research methods: urban mapping, space syntax, community engagement, mixed-methods documentation.
