Participative and inclusive local governance, counter planning, water and sanitation, housing and land issues, urban social movements, urban inclusion, social transformation vide drinking water schemes, gender empowerment.

Articles:

• S. Tamysetty, G. R. Babu, B. Sahu, S. Shapeti, D. Ravi, E. Lobo, C.S. Varughese, A. Bhide, A. Madhale, M. Manyal, M. Kamble, A. Konar, P. Sarkar, D.K. Das, P.S. Mukherjee, K. Singh, A.S. Chauhan, A. Naskar, R. Bhatia and S. Khetrapal (2022). Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence: Findings from Slums of Four Major Metro Cities of India. Vaccines. 10, 60, 1–18. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010060
  
  
• A. Bhide (2020). Informal Settlements, the Emerging Response to COVID and the Imperative of Transforming the Narrative. Journal of Social and Economic Development. 23 (Suppl 2), 280–289. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40847-020-00119-9   
• K. Coelho, A. Bhide, L. Kamath and M. Naik (2020). Disassembling the Urban: Understanding Struggle and Contestation through Boundaries. Urbanisation. 5 (2), 75–84. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2455747120976466
• A. Bhide (2020). Informal Settlements, Cities: Re-examining Existing Knowledge and Intervention in the context of COVID-19. The Indian Journal of Social Work. 81 (3), 257–262. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32444/IJSW.2020.81.3.257-262
• A. Bhide (2020). Migrants: Homecoming. Yojana. 64 (11), 50–52. https://www.publicationsdivision.nic.in/journals/Journalarchives/Yojana/Yojana-English/2020/November/Yojana_2020_November_pdf.pdf   
• A. Bhide (2020). Everyday Violence and Bottom-up Peace Building Initiatives by the Urban Poor in Mumbai. International Development Planning Review. 42 (1), 57–71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2019.27
• A. Bhide (2020). The Political Possibilities of an Administrative Boundary: How the Transforming M- Ward Project ‘Constructed’ the Ward. Urbanisation. 5 (2), 172–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2455747120973147
• K. Vartak, C. Tumbe and A. Bhide (2019). Mass Migration from Rural India: A Restudy of Kunkeri Village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961–1987–2017. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 31 (1), 42–62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0260107918776563
• A. Bhide (2019). Urbanization Unbound: Indian Urbanisation through the Lens of Real Estate and Housing. Urban India. 39 (II), 5–16.
• A. Bhide (2017). Social Health as a Dimension of Affordable Housing. Devalt Newspaper. 27 (10). http://devalt.org/newsletter/oct17/of_1.htm
• A. Bhide (2017). Colonising the Slum: Changing Trajectories of State-Market Violence in Mumbai. Economic and Political Weekly. 52 (7), 75–82. https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/7/review-urban-affairs/colonising-slum.html
• A. Bhide, A. Maringanti and D. Mahadevia (2017). Safe and Inclusive Cities: Painters Towards a Research Agenda. Economic and Political Weekly. 52 (7), 39–40. https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/7/review-urban-affairs/safe-and-inclusive-cities.html
• A. Bhide and S. Waingankar (2015). Comparing Informalities: Slums, Gunthewaris and other Informalities in Maharashtra. Environment and Urbanisation Asia. 6 (2), 125–138.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0975425315589154
• T. van Dijk, A. Bhide and V. Shivtare (2016). When a Participatory Slum Sanitation Project Encounters Urban Informality: The Case of the Greater Mumbai Metropolition Region. International Area Studies Review. 19 (1), 45–59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2233865916628701  
• A. Bhide (2014). The Regularising State. Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (22), 92–100.  https://www.epw.in/journal/2014/22/review-urban-affairs-review-issues/regularising-state.html   
• A. Bhide (2014). Changing Fortunes of State Institutions: The Era of Projects and The Rise of MMRDA. (राज्य स्तरीय संस्थांचे बदलते स्वरूप: प्रकल्पाचे जमाना MMRDA चा उदय – (मुंबई महानगर प्रादेशिक विकास प्राधिकरण) ओळख – राज्य संस्थांचा अभ्यास. 209–223. https://www.udri.org/wp-content/uploads/Mumbai%20Reader/MR%2014%20Marathi/09%20Changing%20Fortunes%20Of%20State%20Institutions_Amita%20Bhide.pdf
• A. Bhide (2012). Editorial. Challenge for Women Entering Municipal Corprations. Shaharachi Karbaharin. 1.
• A. Bhide (2013). Urban Poverty Reduction. Shaharachi Karbaharin.  
• A. Bhide (2009). Privatizing Water in Mumbai, Citizens Report on Domestic Water and Sanitation, Water Aid India.
• A. Bhide (2009). Shifting Terrains of Communities and Community Organization: Reflections on Organizing for Housing Rights in Mumbai. Community Development Journal. 44 (3), 367–381. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsp026
• A. Bhide (2008). Revisiting Community Organisation in a Rural Context. The Indian Journal of Social Work. 69 (2), 239–256.
• A. Bhide (2008). Staking a Claim. Mumbai: YUVA.
• A. Bhide (2008). Chini Kavita. In Parallax Vision: Anthology of Writings by India China Fellows 2006–2008, New York: India China Institute. https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Parallax-Visions_Web-Ready.pdf
• A. Bhide (2008). Migrations & Slum Dwellers: Some Reflections. In Parallax Visions: Anthropology of Writings by India China Fellows, 2006–2008. New York: India China Institute. https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Parallax-Visions_Web-Ready.pdf
• A. Bhide (2008). Resettlement or A Silent Displacement. Mumbai Reader-08. 302–329. https://udri.org/wp-content/uploads/Mumbai%20Reader/MR%208/17%20Resettlement%20or%20A%20Silent%20Displacement.pdf
• A. Bhide (2006). Governance, Civil Society and Partnership: A View from the Periphery. Social Development Initiatives. 28 (1), 53–68.  
• A. Bhide (2005). Kuni Ghar Deta Ka Ghar (Marathi). Miloon Saryajani (Annual Diwali Issue). 153–157.
• R.N. Sharma and A. Bhide (2005). World Bank Funded Slum Sanitation Programme in Mumbai: Participatory Approach and Lessons Learnt. Economic and Political Weekly. 40 (17), 1784–1789.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/4416538 (co-author)
• A. Bhide (2004). Vyavasayik Samajkarya: Kahi Prashna, Kahi Dwandwa. Samajkaryachya Disha. 1 (1), 5–7.
• A. Bhide (2003). SHGs Under Rural Credit Programme: Experience from Maharashtra Credit: A Key to Prosperity, A Path to Doom. IASSI Quarterly. 21 (3 & 4), 164–173.
• A. Bhide (2002). Garib Kutumbe va Nivara. Loksatta. March 10.
• A. Bhide (2002). Hakk Nivaryacha. Loksatta. March 17.  
• A. Bhide (2002). Mojmap Daridryache. Loksatta. March 24.
• A. Bhide (2002). Kharichya Prayatnala Ramache Pathbal Have. Loksatta. March 31.
• S. Acharya, A. Bhide and R. Mammen (2001). The Maharashtra Rural Credit Programme: Field Level Reconnaissance. The Indian Journal of Social Work. 62 (4), 639–667.
• A. Bhide (1998). Housing Campaigns in India: An Overview. The Indian Journal of Social Work. 59, 354–356.
• R. Jain and A. Bhide (1998). From Communes to Communalism: Can the Issue be Resolved?. The Indian Journal of Social Work. 59, 473–497.
• Books/Books Chapters
• A. Bhide (2023). Expanding Housing Rights through a Privatising State. In K.B. Saxena (Ed.). Private Sector Participation in Public Services: Civic Services. New Delhi: Aakar Books.
• A. Bhide and K. Vartak (2022). Jaun-Yeun: Simultaneous Engagement of Konkani Migrants. In S. Jha and P.K. Singh (Eds). Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration Leaving and Living. New York: Routledge India. [ISBN: 978-1-032-23416-8]
• A. Bhide (2022). Postscript: Planning for the Maximum City in the Era of Planetary Urbanization. In L. Pattaroni, A. Bhide, and C. Lutringer (Eds). Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034. Singapore: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8671-9
• L. Pattaroni, A. Bhide and C. Lutringer (2022). Introduction: On Politics of Urban Planning. In L. Pattaroni, A. Bhide, and C. Lutringer (Eds). Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034. Singapore: Springer.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8671-9
• Pattaroni, A. Bhide and C. Lutringer (2022). Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034. Singapore: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8671-9
  
  
• T. Baitsch and A. Bhide (2022). Politics of Land Use Regulations. In L. Pattaroni, A. Bhide, and C. Lutringer (Eds). Politics of Urban Planning: The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014–2034. Singapore: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8671-9
• A. Bhide (2021). Urban Local Governance: Revisiting the Fundamentals. In D. Rajasekhar (Ed). Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India. London: Routledge India. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429321887
• A. Bhide (2021). Settlement in a ‘Smartening City’. In R. Bhattacharya and A. Shaw (Eds). Urban Housing, Livelihoods and Environmental Challenges in Emerging Economies. 146–164. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan. [978-9-354-42233-1]
• A. Bhide (2021). Prakash: Data Entrepreneur. In L. Bjorkman (Ed). Bombay Brokers. Durham: Duke University Press. [ISBN: 978-1-478-01053-1]
• A. Bhide (2021). Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai as a PPP. In J. Gideon and E. Unterhalter (Eds). Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. London and New York: Routledge. [ISBN: 978-0-367-23566-6]
• A. Bhide (2018). Changing Trajectories of Urban Local Governance. In S. Patel and O. Goyal (Eds). India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum. London: Routledge India. [ISBN: 978-0-367-73239-4]
• A. Bhide (2018). The Local as Policy Space: From a Counterpoint called Mumbai. In A. Bhide and H. Burte (Eds). Urban Parallax: Policy and The City in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Yoda Press, in collaboration with Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, India. [ISBN: 978-9-382-57963-2]
• H. Burte and A. Bhide (2018). Introduction. In A. Bhide and H. Burte (Eds). Urban Parallax: Policy and The City in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Yoda Press, in collaboration with Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, India. [ISBN: 978-9-382-57963-2]
• A. Bhide and H. Burte (2018). Urban Parallax: Policy and The City in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Yoda Press, in collaboration with Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, India. [ISBN: 978-9-382-57963-2]
• A. Bhide (2017). Directed Decentralisation: Analysing the Experience of Decentralisation via JNNURM in Maharashtra. In N. Jayaram (Ed.). Social Dynamics of the Urban Studies from India, Delhi: Springer, 2017. [ISBN: 978-8-132-23740-2]
• A. Bhide (2013). Role of Political Actors in Housing Urban Poor: A reappraisal. In K. Mehta (Ed). Design for Everyone: Towards Sustainable Habitats. Mumbai: Aga Khan Planning and Building Service.
• A. Bhide (2011). From the Margins: Experiences of Low Income Communities in Mumbai vis-à-vis Changing Patterns of Service Delivery. In P. Joshi (Ed). Mumbai Reader ’09. Mumbai: Urban Design Research Institute.
• A. Bhide (2010). A Comparative Study of State Response to Educational Needs of Informal Settlers in Indian and Chinese Cities. In A. Gurung, B. McGrath, J. Zha and A. Appadurai (Eds). Growing Cities in a Shrinking World: The Challenges of Urbanism in India and China. Delhi: Macmillan. [ISBN: 978-0-230-32928-7]
• H. Mander, V. Xaxa, L. Lingam and A. Bhide (2009). Poverty Discourses and Global Civil Society. In A. Kumar, J.A. Scholte, M. Kaldor, M. Glasius, H. Seckinelgin and H. Anheier (Eds). Global Civil Society 2009: Poverty and Activism. SAGE Publications Limited. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446269275
• A. Bhide (2008). Partnerships in Action: A People’s View. In I.S.A. Baud and J. de Witt (Eds). New Forms of Urban Governance in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9788132101390
• A. Bhide (2008). Dynamics and Contours of Resisting Displacement in Mumbai. In D. Mahadevia (Ed). Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies and Public Actions. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. [ISBN: 978-8-180-69574-2]
• A. Bhide (2006). The Footprints of a Global City: What it Means for the Poor: Sharing the Mumbai Experience. In L. Batra (Ed). The Urban Poor in Globalising India: Dispossession and Marginalisation. Delhi: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Publication Private Limited. [ISBN: 978-8-189-65433-7]
• A. Bhide (2007). Grihanirman: Ek Loksangrahi Prakriya. In P.B. Samant (Ed). Sangharsh Nivaryacha. Mumbai: Granthali.
• U. Nayar and A. Bhide (2007). Contextualizing Media Competencies amongst Young People in Indian Culture Interface with Globalization. In K. Drotner and S. Livingstone (Eds). International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture. London: Sage Publications.

Field Action Project

Transforming M-Ward Project, estd. 2011 M (East) Ward, Mumbai.

Research Projects

Boundary Spanning: A Comparative Study of Collaborative Action in Four Cities of India

Coping with COVID-19 through Community Led Action, Learning and Partnership (CLAP)

Construction of A Model Public Toilet Rebuilding a Dilapidated Toilet as A Model Block

Deepening Networks of Tacit Urban Knowledge to Inform Inclusive Policy Frameworks

Engendering the Mumbai Suburban Railway System

Exploring Challenges and Potentials to Gendered Governance in Indian Cities

Empowering Tribal Communities to Improve Nutrition and Strengthening Awareness on Nutrition Related Services Community Action for Nutrition Can Sathi

Gendered Violence and Poor Mental Health among Migrants in precarious situations

Impact of Infrastructure and Governance Transformations of JNNURM on Small, Medium and Large Cities

Knowledge Base for Right to City in India

People, Places and Infrastructure: Countering Urban Violence and Promoting Spatial Justice in Mumbai, Rio and Durban

Staking A Claim: A Study of Displacement and Rehabilitation in Globalising Mumbai

Situating Violence Against Women Within Fender System A Study Among the Tribes on North East India – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya

TA-8899 IND TA 8899 IND Strengthening Capacity of The National Urban Health Mission

Towards Sustainable Sanitation in India and Brazil (TOSSIB)

Urban Community Greening in M East Ward

Urban Poverty and Exclusion

Urban Housing 

Urban Sanitation and Solid Waste Management 

Land Housing and Property Perspectives and Alternative

South Asian Cities and Urbanisation

Foundation Course