Anaushka Goyal is a Master of City Planning student at the University of Pennsylvania and a licensed architect from Mumbai, specializing in spatial analytics. Her work bridges data and community narratives to advance more equitable urban futures.
At Penn, she researches school facilities planning with Professor Akira Rodriguez, integrating spatial, enrollment, and socio-economic analysis with community engagement to reveal how school closures reshape neighborhoods. She also founded Lived Narratives, a project mapping the emotional experience of public spaces in Philadelphia.
Professionally, Anaushka has worked across zoning, real estate, and public space governance. As a Real Estate and Development Intern with Community Development Long Island, she updated the regional Zoning Atlas by synthesizing codes from 266 municipalities to support coordinated planning. At the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai, she contributed to a performance based metrics strategy for the city’s 650+ public open spaces, helped build an open-source urban data platform to generate spatial insights, and co-authored a report identifying the systemic causes behind the loss of public open spaces.
Her work lies at the intersection of planning, real estate, and technology, guided by the belief that data must be paired with equity, belonging, and trust to create meaningful urban change.