From 1979 to 1983, he served as Commissioner (Planning) at the Delhi Development Authority, where he provided spatial direction for integrated development. His approach brought transport, services and land use into a single planning framework. Eminent architect and veteran town planner Edgar Ribeiro, known for his role in safeguarding Goa’s green cover, passed away at his ancestral house in Socorro in Goa Friday night. He was 96. Ribeiro, a former chief planner with the Government of India, helped move urban planning beyond rigid land-use maps to an approach integrating transport, services and land use. After having studied architecture at Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai , he did his post-graduation in Town and Country Planning from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in the late 1950’s. After serving with a municipal borough and a county council within the UK’s unitary system of developmental governance, he joined the Town and Country Planning Organisation (TCPO) of the Government of India in 1962.…