Subject Name: TOWN PLANNING

Subject Code: 16BAR-4TP41T

Year and Semester: IV YEAR (Semester VII)
Name of Faculty per section:
4A: PARUL SHARMA
4B: MOHD. ANEES
4C: SOBIA AHSAN

Aims

The course is an introduction to Urban and Regional planning which is a theory course to equip the students to
have an analytical base to comprehend urbanism.

Learning Objectives

The course focus is on the physical and spatial aspects of planning of cities. In doing so, a number of city spaces,
their form and structure are analyzed. How have these been affected because of changes in population, housing
shortage, infrastructure and related problems? The objective of this course is to study socio-economic and
demographic characteristic of town and cities, their present growth trends and future needs

The course focus is on the physical and spatial aspects of planning of cities. In doing so, a number of city spaces,
their form and structure are analyzed. How have these been affected because of changes in population, housing
shortage, infrastructure and related problems? The objective of this course is to study socio-economic and
demographic characteristic of town and cities, their present growth trends and future needs

Scope of the Subject:

The scope of teaching Town Planning should be oriented in such a way that it should facilitate students of
Architecture to inculcate appropriate planning aspects in their concerned Architectural Design program.

Teaching Method

The idea of the course would be to sensitize the students with broader context of Urbanism and widen their
perspective at which they visualize a city/town and also to familiarize the students with a framework of Urban
Planning and deepen their understanding of its various attributes and determinants. The course will be taught by
means of lectures, site visits and group discussions.

Our class follows a lecture- discussion format. Two thirds of lecture sessions will be held as lectures facilitated by
the faculty. The other one third of sessions are small-group discussions. Within both contexts, active
participation and engagement is a baseline expectation of adequate performance in this class.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge –
Relevance and Introduction to human settlements, history of Indian settlements, history of settlement patterns
in the world during various periods, detail study of settlement theories, Planning models & study related to it,
spatial aspects of settlement planning these are essential parts to be studied.

• Engage first hand with town/urban planning issues and phenomena in our local/national context.

• Basic concepts of planning and its important roles in socio-cultural, economic and environmental
aspects.

• Laws and legislations required for a smooth conduct of urban planning.

• Issues pertaining to urban development, and the tools used in various facets of planning projects.

• Global dimension of planning pertaining to different cities all across the globe.

• Effect of planning through the past centuries and in present towards the future planning prospects.

• Role& function of town as a small/medium town center in the development of region & its surrounding.
Study emphasis on serious challenges of growth of town & its income/ expenditure. The issues of
urbanization in the form of insufficient infrastructure, inadequate services, etc.

Skills –

• Critical thinking

• Analysis and interpretation of both quantitative and qualitative data to study an urban area.

• Questionnaire preparation and survey techniques

• Generation of Maps for use in documentations

• Teamwork skills

• Learn the roles of various stakeholders in urban projects and planning process.

Orientations and Awareness –

• The course focus will be on the physical and spatial aspects of planning of towns and cities which will
impart awareness of the problems of urban areas among the students and also how to address these
various problems.

Approach -

• Planning is a field which deals with a larger section of a society, their needs and aspirations. So the
approach is to develop a sense of understanding among the students for the various planning
parameters and its importance and also an analytical and enquiring approach towards planning to learn
various issues on the ground level.

• The lectures will be based on interactive sessions with more emphasis on knowledge based learning
and site visits which will bring a sense of awareness of the area and a social cohesion with local
communities and stakeholders.
 • The skills imparted through the course curriculum will also help the students in the profession field.

• The practical understanding of the students is enhanced by taking up exercises in real situation (Studio
exercise) and then apply the theoretical learning of the subjects
It is divided in four key modules: fundamentals, method,and adherence, followed by important
cases and examples for a comprehensive understanding of the subject.

Course learning environment:

The learning environment in this class depends upon student’s presence and participation. Full participation is
expected for both lecture and discussion sessions.

WEEK & RECOMMENDED READINGS AND

LECTURE
DATE SUBMISSION TIMELINE
FUNDAMENTALS: HISTORY, INTRODUCTION, THEORIES •
• Introduction to Town planning- Importance, Need & • Gallion Arthur B., Eisner S.,
Scope The Urban Pattern: City Planning and
• Different vocabulary in town planning: urban Design, CBS Pub and Distributors,
st
1 Week agglomeration, sprawl, renewal etc. Delhi, 1984.
• Difference amongst various scales of towns and cities • Bandopadhyay Abir, The Text
• Concepts of ‘Town* and ‘Planning*; Contemporary Book of Town Planning, Books and
Planning Practice in India, and its recognition; Urban Allied (P) Ltd, Kolkata,2000
Demographic Trends; New Paradigms in Indian Planning.
• Evolution & History of Town Planning • Lynch kevin, writings and
• Case studies of Ancient Civilizations, Global and Indian projects, city sense and city design,
Town Planning in Pre-historic, Early Historic, Medieval, MIT Press, The City history, Library of
Industrial and Modern Era;
congress USA
• Theories related to Human Settlement- Principle,
philosophy & implication understanding of the following • The planning and cities,
researchers : Garden City by Ebenezer Howard (1898), medival cities
Neighbourhood Concept by Clarence Perry (1920), • www.un.org/sdc
Radiant City by Le Corbusier (1924), Radburn Layout by
Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright (1929), and Broadacre
2nd Week City: Frank L. Wright (1932); Urban and Regional Growth
Models: Concentric Zone Model by Ernest W. Burgess
(1925), Central Place Theory by Walter Christaller (1933),
Sector Model by Homer Hoyt (1939), Multiple Nuclei
Model by Chauncy D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman (1945),
and Growth Pole Theory by Francois Perroux (1949);
Social and Economic Theories: Geddesian Triad by Patrick
Geddes (1915), Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow
(1943), Bid Rent Theory by William Alonso (1964), and
Push- Pull Theory of Migration by Everett S. Lee (1966);
Modern Concepts and Emerging Ideasim Lewis
Mumford, -, Doxiadis
 • continuing with the 2nd week’s lectures • FLOAT ASSIGNMENT 1
• Introduction to elements of a city, aspects and their sub • Modak & Ambdekar, Town
aspects, TYPOLOGY: Based on Location: Hill Town, Coastal and Country Planning & Housing,
Town, Satellite Town etc.; Based on Size: Small Town, Orient Longman Ltd 1971
Medium Town, Mega City etc.; Based on Character: • Mumford, Lewis. What is a
3rd Week
Administrative, Industrial, Religious, Tourism, Port City city.
etc.
• Case studies of historic towns, pre-independence and
post-independence towns
• Post liberalization development of Indian metropolitan
cities
 PROCESS: Planning Approaches: Global, Regional, Urban SUBMISSION OF ASSIGMENT 1
and Rural; Types of Plans: Perspective, Development or
Master, Short Term, and Projects or Schemes; Planning
Process and Institutional Hierarchy in India • FLOAT ASSIGNMENT 2
4th Week
• Introduction to various Development Plans
• Various research papers
• Master Plan (formulation and implementation)
published by united nations
• URDPFI guidelines
th
5 Week • Master Plan Continued • Master plan of various cities

• Issues of town planning: identification of various SUBMISSION OF ASSIGMENT 2

th
6 Week problems and potentials of a human settlement
• TECHNIQUES: Primary and Secondary Data; Collection; •
Analysis; Mapping and survey etc
th
7 Week Mid Term Assessment 1 (40%)

• Regional Plans (formulation and implementation) • Chand, M. and Puri, V. K.

8th Week • Survey methods and programme analysis techniques used Regional Planning in India, Allied Pub.
in Master Plan Ltd., Bombay

• ACTS AND RULES: Land Acquisition Act (1894) and Right • Menon, A G Krishna. 2007.
to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land The Complexity of Indian Urbanism.
Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (2013); New Delhi: s.n., November 2007,
Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act (1976) and ULCR Seminar, Vol. 579.
Repeal Act (1999); Environment Protection Act (1986),
9th Week
Rules and Notifications; 74th Constitutional Amendment
Act (1993); Special Economic Zones Act (2005); Real
Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (2016)
• POLICIES at global, national and state level.
 • Housing, Typology and related elements, Housing
Scenario in India, Housing deficit, Designation of Slums,
10th Week
Squatters and Unauthorized colonies Khosla, R. K Urban and Rural
• Sustainable development Goals Development in India, Indian
Publishers & Distributors, Delhi.
th
11 Week DIWALI Assessment 2

• RELATED SUBJECTS WITH TOWN PLANNING •

• Community participation and participatory decision • FLOAT ASSIGNMENT 3
making process
th
12 Week • Introduction to Smart Cities • Agarwal, M. K. Urban
• Concept of Transit Oriented Development Transportation in India, Allied
Publishers, Mumbai

• New Urbanism SUBMISSION OF ASSIGMENT 3

• Urban design and safety in cities •
• Mixed Use Development and Neighborhood Planning • Spreiregen, Paul D. 1981.
13th Week
• SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES: PMAY, Urban design, the architecture of
HNNURM,AMRUT,HRIDAY,NRuM and other schemes towns and cities. Pennsylvania:
from ministry of urban housing and urban affairs and Pennsylvania State University, 1981.
ministry of urban development. ISBN: 0898743001, 9780898743005.
14th Week • Written test Assessment 3

15th Week • Finalization of Internal Assessment Finalization of Grades

16th Week • Uploading of marks Finalization of Grades

Assessments:
Assessment 1: Report on the comparison of various theories of city planning adopted and their critical analysis.
City Appreciation through Info-graphics- comics, novels, quotations (3 A4 Sheets) /Four “Great Cities in the
News” clippings
Assessment 2: Analysis of various Master Plans

Assessment 3: Probable site visit to a slum / squatter and DUSIB and UN Habitat (working for the affordable
housing for urban poor) and report on various community interaction methods and techniques. Primary study

Assessment 4: Test
Summative Assessment Components and Criteria

Assessment – Groups of 2 Collage/A 3 panel 10 Marks Due week 6 Learning

1 Outcome 1,2 & 4

Assessment – Groups of 2 Collage/A 3 panel 10 Marks Due week 6 Learning

2 Outcome 1,2 & 4

Assessment – Group Power-point 20 marks Due week 10 Learning

3 Presentation presentation /Panel Outcome 1,3 & 6
–4 Presentation

(Group)

Assessment – Individual Written test 20 marks Due week 14 Learning

4 Outcome 1,4,5,6
& 10

Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

The theft of ideas (such as the plots of narrative or dramatic works) or of written passages or works,
where these are passed off as one's own work without acknowledgement of their true origin; or a piece of
writing thus stolen.

-- The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 2008. Oxford University Press.

Common Forms of Plagiarism

• Copying directly from others without acknowledgement of the original source

• Using ideas or rephrasing text from without acknowledgement of the original source
• Using charts, tables, pictures or diagrams from others without referencing
• Reusing some parts of your previous work
• Submitting other people’s work as your own

How to avoid plagiarism?

• Use your own ideas.

• Paraphrase + give proper credit to the original source.
• Use quotation marks when using exact words from other authors + give proper credit to the original
source.
• Organise and track your sources and materials

Essential Text (Reference Book)

• .
Recommended Text (Reference Book)
TEXTS & REFERENCES

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• Alexander, Christopher. 1987. A New theory of urban design. illustrated. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1987. ISBN 0195037537, 9780195037531.
• Bacon, Edmund N. 1974. Design of cities. s.l.: Viking Press, 1974.
• Catanese, A. J. and Snyder, J. C. (1979) Introduction to Urban Planning, McGraw Hill, New
York
• Chen, Xiangming, Orum, Anthony M and Paulsen, Krista E. 2012. Introduction to Cities: How
Place and Space Shape Human Experience. annotated. s.l.: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ISBN:
1118261291, 9781118261293.
• Eisner, S. Urban Pattern, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
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• Krier, R. Urban Space, London.
• Levy, J. M. Contemporary Urban Planning, Prentice Hall, New Jersey
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• Prakash, Gyan. 2002. The Urban Turn. Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
2002, Sarai Reader, Vol. 02, pp. 2-7. 8190142909, 9788190142908.
• Raban, Jonathan. 2008. Soft City. reprint. s.l.: Picador, 2008. ISBN: 0330456490,
9780330456494.
• Rangwala, S. C. and Others Town Planning, Charotar Pub. House, Anand.
• Simmel, George. The Metropolis and Mental Life.
• Sen, Jai. 1976. The Unintended City. New Delhi: s.n., April 1976, Seminar, Vol. 200.
• Bairoch, P. (1988). Cities and Economic Development: From the Dawn of History to the
Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Government of India, Ministry of Urban Development, Town and Country Planning
Organization (2015). Urban and Regional Development Plans Formulation and
Implementation (URDPFI) Guidelines