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About the Authors Sunjana Thirumala Sridhar is an urban designer and architect, with a keen interest in understanding the way design and research impacts our socio-economic lifestyles. After graduating from Columbia University, and with five years of prior professional experience in the architectural and urban field, she founded Ud-S (United design Studio), a design practice handling urban, architectural and furniture research and design. Her experience spans large scale urban planning, design for communities, architectural design and developing her personal passion of furniture design. She currently lives in New Jersey, and is always up for a good discussion! Connect with her via www.linkedin.com/in/sunjana Nasim Amini is an urban designer and architect. Most of her research has been on investigating design solutions that are relevant to the current socio-economic conditions of cities. After practicing as an architect in Europe for a few years, she continued her studies at Columbia University, and furthered her knowledge in Urban Design. She has experiences in community oriented design, research based planning, and digital design as well as building information modeling technologies that can improve the entire cycle of shaping the cities, from design to post-construction maintenances. She currently works in New York and is finishing her second graduate degree in construction managment at New York University. Connect with her via https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasim-amini-58651b44
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