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This document outlines the modules covered in an Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning elective course at BIT Ranchi in India. The 7 modules cover topics such as: town planning principles including surveys and plan types; urbanization trends and issues in India; planning practices globally including concepts from Robert Owen and Ebenezer Howard; urban renewal and regeneration; transportation planning; environmental planning and legislation; and regional planning including definitions, regionalization methods, and growth centers. Reference books on urban and regional planning topics are also listed.

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Ar8105 (C)

This document outlines the modules covered in an Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning elective course at BIT Ranchi in India. The 7 modules cover topics such as: town planning principles including surveys and plan types; urbanization trends and issues in India; planning practices globally including concepts from Robert Owen and Ebenezer Howard; urban renewal and regeneration; transportation planning; environmental planning and legislation; and regional planning including definitions, regionalization methods, and growth centers. Reference books on urban and regional planning topics are also listed.

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BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RANCHI, INDIA

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE


AR 8105 (C) Introduction to Urban & Regional Planning (Elective I)

Module: 1 TOWN PLANNING PRINCIPLES.
Physical nature and characteristics of urban environment, categories of town.
Planning surveys, types & techniques.
The interim & comprehensive plans: Structure Plan, Master plan, Zonal dev. plans
Module: 2 URBANISATION AND CITY / METROPOLITAN PLANNING IN INDIA
Trend of urbanization and urban development in India.
Effect of migration, conurbation and population growth, both physical & social.
Changing urbanity between city and metropolis.
Metropolitan region and problem of major agglomeration
Decentralization: merits and demerits for the growth of metropolis
Module: 3 TOWN PLANNING PRACTICES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE GLOBE
Utopian concepts of Robert Owen, J .S. Buckingham, etc.
Concept of Garden City & Satellite garden towns.
City planning concept of as proposed by Tony Garnier, Le Corbusier, F.L. Wright, etc.
Module: 4 URBAN RENEWAL AND REGENERATION
Restructuring of existing Urban
Urban Government and Reforms
Urban infrastructure upgradation
Economically productive, equitable and responsive Urban areas.
Module: 5 TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.
Basic terminologies of Traffic & Transportation.
Classification of Urban roads & types of street system.
Transportation system and its impact on urban planning.
Traffic management & traffic surveys.
Traffic control measures.
Module: 6 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING.
Environmental issues.
Environmental acts/legislations
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental economics
Environmental management specific to Soil waste management, forest management, watershed, natural
resource management. (concepts of cleaner products/ green building)

Module: 7 REGIONAL PLANNING.
Definition, scope and content of Regional planning.
Methods and purpose of regionalization.
Regional growth process & growth centres.
Regional economic / industrial locations.
Reference Books
1. A.B. Gallion; The Urban Pattern
2. Edmund N. Bacon; Design of Cities
3. Lewis Mumford; The City in History
4. Abir Bandyopadhyay; Textbook of Town Planning,
5. R.L. Bawa & B.G. Fernandes; A Guide for Planning of Residential Neighbourhood
6. J . Glasson; Introduction to Regional Planning
7. C.A. Doxiadis; EKISTICS: An Introduction to the science of human settlement pattern
8. Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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