His professional work includes strategic plans, new towns, inner-city revitalizations, campus plans, resort villages and urban regulations for municipal and private clients in the United States, Canada, Panama, India, UAE, Kenya & Mauritius. His work has been published and exhibited internationally and recognized with numerous local and national awards from the American Planning Association and Congress for the New Urbanism.
 

He is the Editor of The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms (2012), co-author of Rediscovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture & Urbanism of India (2012), and contributing author of several books including Planning Los Angeles (2011), Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region (2005), and Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (2011).  A former Asia-Pacific Development Commission Traveling Scholar to Japan, he has also lectured and written extensively on traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture including the foreword to the Slovenian translation of the Japanese classic In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki republished by the University of Ljubljana (2003). His articles have also been published by the Journal of Architectural Education, Urban Design Quarterly, Marg, Indian Express and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
 

His ongoing research focuses on the intersection of sustainability, public policy, urbanism and the global water crisis. He is currently directing three major research projects in Asia: Bridges to Banaras examines multidisciplinary top-down and bottom-up strategies for the future of one of India’s oldest and holiest cities. Saving the Qanat explores the strategic conservation and reuse of Iran’s indigenous hydro-infrastructure as catalysts for sustainable urban growth. Behind the Shikinen Sengu examines the ecological impacts and cultural shifts of the 3000 year old cyclic rebuilding ritual of Japan’s most famous shrine, the Ise Jingu.
 

A native of Goa, India, Bharne studied architecture and urban design at Goa University and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Nominated as a Presidential Fellow in USC’s Marshall School of Business, he currently serves as a contributing editor of Kyoto Journal in Japan, an expert commentator in the Urban Vision think tank in India, a Resource Council member of the Form Based Codes Institute in Chicago, and an Advisory Board member of Global Urban Development, an international non-profit dedicated to strategic policy and action on urban issues worldwide.