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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT & INVESTMENT ADVISORY

PLANNING
PLACES.
INFORMING
DECISIONS.

Evaluating opportunities through the connected perspectives of urban planning, development feasibility and project investment.

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URBAN CONTEXTSCHEMATIC STUDY
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A place is never an isolated proposition.
Its context is part of its potential.

INDEPENDENT STUDIO · INDIA · EST. 2020SCROLL TO EXPLORE ↓
THE STUDIO

We work where
the map meets
the decision.

URPAC is an independent planning and development advisory studio. We help developers, investors and property owners evaluate opportunities and navigate the spatial, financial and regulatory questions around them.

Founded in India in 2020, the practice has developed through smaller development assignments, feasibility work and stakeholder coordination.

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EXPERTISE

One project.
Multiple perspectives.

Planning & development

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Understand the possibilities of a site and connect them with a considered development strategy.

  • Site and land-use evaluation
  • Development alternatives and spatial priorities
  • Project coordination and development guidance

Engagement scope is shaped by the site, objectives and applicable local framework.

Feasibility & markets

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Test development ideas against market demand, site conditions and project viability.

  • Residential demand and market positioning
  • Development alternatives and feasibility studies
  • Project viability and cost considerations

Assumptions and information gaps are made explicit; a feasibility study is not a guarantee of project performance.

Development & investment

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Bring project cash flows, costs and capital requirements into the same decision framework.

  • Project-level cash-flow analysis
  • Investment feasibility and return scenarios
  • Cost sensitivities and capital-allocation alternatives

Project-level analytical work, not securities advice, brokerage or a claim of regulated investment-adviser status.

Planning & regulation

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Identify relevant requirements and coordinate the information needed for a structured approvals process.

  • Zoning and land-use interpretation
  • Development permission and compliance assessment
  • Coordination with relevant planning authorities

Requirements depend on jurisdiction and current rules. Permit decisions remain with the relevant authorities; approvals are not guaranteed.

Strategy & coordination

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Align developers, property owners and professional teams around a workable project direction.

  • Project objectives and development priorities
  • Coordination with architects, consultants and owners
  • Alignment of market, financial and regulatory considerations

The studio works alongside appropriately qualified professionals according to each engagement.

Urban data & exploration

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Explore spatial analysis, visualization and computation as tools for asking better planning questions.

  • Exploratory spatial analysis and visualization
  • Development scenarios and planning-tool prototypes
  • Independent computational research

An evolving exploratory research direction, not a record of completed commercial computational engagements.

DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT

Practical questions.
A grounded perspective.

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Residential development

Understanding housing demand, site conditions and the development alternatives available to a project.

Feasibility & positioning

Connecting market conditions with cost assumptions, project viability and a considered development strategy.

Planning coordination

Bringing developers and professional teams together around relevant requirements and the next decision.

OUR APPROACH

A sequence of
better questions.

Understand

The site, the objectives and the market.

Identify

The constraints that shape the brief.

Evaluate

Alternatives before commitments.

Coordinate

The people needed to move forward.

Inform

Recommendations grounded in evidence.

RESEARCH & CURIOSITY

Practice asks.
Curiosity follows.

Computational methods, spatial visualization and finance are evolving research interests. They help us explore new ways to understand cities and development decisions.

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SHUBHANKAR SHARMA
FOUNDER, URPAC

India · Established 2020

THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRACTICE

Shubhankar Sharma

A planning foundation.
An analytical outlook.

Shubhankar founded URPAC in 2020 following a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech. His background in planning informs the studio’s approach to land, development feasibility and project investment decisions.

His work connects site context, market positioning and stakeholder coordination. Independent interests in urban data, computation and finance continue to shape the questions he explores.

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START A CONVERSATION

A site. An idea.
A next step.

Have a development question or a potential collaboration? Connect with Shubhankar through his personal website.

Connect with Shubhankar

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