introduction to sensitizing students to urban development process

1. Urban Planning & Development
1
What is urban?
What is urban planning?
What is land?
What is built environment?

2. Urban - Place
Urbane – Human
Urbanization - phenomena
Technology (most importantly in terms of transport and
communication)
has a big role to play
Degree of self- sufficiency is low in Urban areas
Transformations are of following types
Land ----- Built
Agriculture/natural/water ---- Non-natural use
Self –sufficiency ---- intra/inter dependence/functional linkages
model of living

3. URBAN - Census of India definition
(a) all places with a Municipality, Corporation or Cantonment or Notified Town Area
(b) all other places which satisfied the following criteria:
(i) a minimum population of 5,000.
(ii) at least 75% of the male working population was non-agricultural.
(iii) a density of population of at least 400 persons/sq. Km.

4. Physical Urban planning is a process of formulation of the plan of a
settlement or region, as the case may be, which serves as a tool in guiding
the manner in which land will be used for various socio-economic and
physical activities and provision of infrastructure and development therein
shall be carried out by the public or private agencies. It is a cyclic process of
identification of goals and objectives; assessment of issues, potentials and
priorities; evolution of alternative plans and their evaluation to select most
appropriate concept; preparation of the plan based on the selected concept;
implementation; followed by feedback and review to decode the future
course of action, which, depending upon the results of review, could be
repeat, refine or abandon the plan. The issues could be related to socio-
economic and physical development or financing, management,
environment, heritage disaster or political considerations.
Source: Kulshreshtha S.K., 2012. Urban and regional Planning in India. A handbook of Professional Practice. Sage, New Delhi

5. LAND

6. Its motor able approach

7. Its development in infrastructure

8. Regional connectivity

9. Infrastructure provisioning

11. Site development and construction

12. The product

28. Assignment –
Observe the built environment around you (Amity Campus and bring out elements that u see

29. Physical Urban planning is a process of formulation of the plan of a
settlement or region, as the case may be, which serves as a tool in guiding
the manner in which land will be used for various socio-economic and
physical activities and provision of infrastructure and development therein
shall be carried out by the public or private agencies. It is a cyclic process of
identification of goals and objectives; assessment of issues, potentials and
priorities; evolution of alternative plans and their evaluation to select most
appropriate concept; preparation of the plan based on the selected concept;
implementation; followed by feedback and review to decode the future
course of action, which, depending upon the results of review, could be
repeat, refine or abandon the plan. The issues could be related to socio-
economic and physical development or financing, management,
environment, heritage disaster or political considerations.
Source: Kulshreshtha S.K., 2012. Urban and regional Planning in India. A handbook of Professional Practice. Sage, New Delhi