FIRST SEMESTER
1.1 Applied Mathematics
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Linear Algebra
Real numbers, vectors and vector spaces, linear independence of vectors; matrices, addition, multiplication, inversion and square of matrices, rank of a matrix, solution of linear equations, computer methods of matrix, solution of linear equations, computer methods of matrix algebra.
Unit: 2 Calculus
Functions and their graphic representation, differential co-efficient, methods of differentiation, Taylor's theorem, indeterminate forms, function of several variables, partial differentiation, maxima and minima.
Methods of integration, definite integrals, areas, volumes, centre of gravity, moment of inertia.
Unit: 3 Analytical Geometry of Two and Three Dimensions
Elementary concepts of conic sections, planes, spheres paraboloids, ellipsoids, hyperboloids.
Unit: 4 Differential Equations
Order and degree of differential equations, variable, separable, homogeneous, exact and linear equations, second order equation with constant co-efficient, complementary function, particular integrals of exponential and trigonometric functions.
Unit: 5 Numerical Analysis (For Use in Computer Methods)
Interpolation and extrapolation, numerical differentiation, numerical integration.
Note:In unit 3 and 5, emphasis is to give a basic idea to the students of the shape of different solids as well as the computer methods of evaluation of mathematical function.
1.2 Basics of Structural Design
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Compression and Tension
Forces of compression and tension, concept of equilibrium of forces and conditions of equilibrium, concepts of elasticity and plasticity, Hooke's law, stress-strain relationship of tension and compression.
Unit: 2 Columns and Walls
Phenomenon of buckling, short and long columns, concept of slenderness ratio, masonry wall.
Unit; 3 Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams
Unit: 4 Principles of Design of Structures
Principles of design of beams, slabs (one way and two way) and cantilevers, framed structures.
1.3 Materials and Principles of Construction
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 150 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introduction to Building Materials and Finishes:
Brick, timber, stone, cement, lime, glass, R.C.C., asbestos., paints and varnishes, Fibre Reinforced Plastic (FRP)
Unit: 2 Structural Uses of Timber
Timber used as lintels, post and trusses.
Unit: 3 Principles of Construction of Building Elements:
Foundations, footings, D.PC., flooring, sills, lintel, roofing, parapets, coping, cladding, expansion joints, waterproofing of roofs, external wall section with detail, beams, columns, slabs, retaining walls.
Unit: 4 Site Development and Layouts.
Principles and components of site development, setting out of buildings on site.
Unit: 5 Principles of Construction of Service Lines and Networks
Layout and construction of roads, culverts, flyovers, sewer and storm water drain, water supply line, service duct under the road.
1.4 Statistical Methods – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction
Statistical data and methods; collection of data, record, file, sources of data. questionnaire design, design of sample surveys; simple random sampling, stratified sampling etc. data coding, data verification.
Unit: 2 Data Presentation
Statistical tables; types of tables, comparisons, methods of presentation, graphic presentation; types of charts, plotting a curve, rules for drawing curves, bar charts, pictography, pie charts, histograms.
Unit: 3 Statistical Methods
Raw data, frequency distribution, selecting number of classes, class limits, curves, cumulative frequency distribution and gives, measures of central tendency; arithmetic mean, median, mode, geometric mean and harmonic mean; measures of absolute dispersion, range, quartile deviation, average deviation, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis.
Unit: 4 Correlation
Degree of correlation, correlation coefficients, methods of concurrent deviation, co-efficient of rank correlation, partial correlation analysis and multiple correlation.
Unit: 5 Probability
Introduction, addition rule, conditional probability, multiplication rule, random variables and probability distribution, mathematical expectation.
Unit: 6 Sampling Distribution
Nature of sampling distribution, Binomial distribution, Poisson's distribution and normal distribution.
1.5 Workshop
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorials = 3 Total =3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Total = 50 Materials and techniques used in physical models, use of hand tools, making scale models of a residential house and a site layout using appropriate materials and techniques.
1.6 Arts and Graphics – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorials =3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 150 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Point and Line
Significance of point and line; motifs and composition in points and lines; types of lines; horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curves etc. and kind of effect each line generates; predominant lines in a building can be studied; principles of composition in terms of balance, harmony
Unit: 2 Texture and Colour
Creating texture with points and lines; appreciation of textures of various materials like brick, stone, wood, etc. use of various textures in the design exercises undertaken in the architectural design studio; introduction to the colour system, shade, tone, tint, etc.; harmonious and contrasting colours; warm, neutral and cool colours and their use in art to create varying effect; use of colour in design exercises; use of texture in colour.
Unit: 3 Shape and Form
Basic shapes and forms; concept of negative and positive space; emphasis on receding and projecting planes as well as basic forms of buildings; outdoor sketching to understand the basic forms; understanding the concept of scale and proportion in composition; introduction to human figures.
1.7 Basics of Design – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 Use of various drafting equipments; lettering - freehand and block; drawing of logo, insignia and jali patterns; orthographic projections- principles and concepts; one, two and three dimensional objects.
Construction of linear and diagonal scale; isometric and perspective views; sciagraphy and rendering.
Anthropometrics and furniture layout of a room; building drawing- plans, elevations and sections at appropriate scales.
Preparation of base maps and graphical presentation of statistical data.
SECOND SEMESTER
2.1 Surveying, Photogrammetry and Photography
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 2 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Basic Principles and Chain Surveying
Definitions, scales and symbols; measurement of distance; instruments used, ranging of survey lines, chaining a line with examples, chaining on sloping ground, errors in chaining, tape corrections; chain surveying; principles, off-sets, booking field notes, instruments, obstacles in chaining, plotting chain survey with practical examples.
Unit: 2 Traversing and Plain Table Surveying
Compass and chain traversing; instruments used, methods of traversing, bearing lines, local attraction, plotting, magnetic declination, precautions in using compass; traversing by theodolite, instruments used and methods; plain table surveying methods, two-point and three- point problems; exercise in preparation of base map of small areas.
Unit: 3 Computation of Areas and Levelling
Computation of areas; from field notes and from plan with example, levelling; instruments used, definitions, principles, reduction of levels, classification of levelling, errors in levelling, contouring; characteristics of contour lines, interpolation and interpretation of contours, uses of contour lines.
Unit: 4 Photogrammetry
Basic principles and concepts in aerial remote sensing; aerial photography, types of photographs; stereoscopic principles, elementary stereoscopic devices; scale of photographs, measurement of heights from photographs
and use of parallax bar; principles of photogrammetry; applications in urban and regional planning.
Unit:. 5 Photography
Basic tools of photography, concepts of film speed (ASA and DIN) aperture, focus etc., camera function; depth of field, shutter and lens function, basic dark room techniques; development, enlargement, printing, fixing the prints. composition and lighting in picture frames, video photography and display.
2.2 History of Art and Culture of Settlements
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Total = 2 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Total = 50 Unit: 1 Art, Culture and Architecture of Old Civilizations
Fundamentals of art; definition, scope, different art forms, materials and techniques; cave art in Europe and India; Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art; art of Gandhara, Byzantine, Buddhist, Islamic and Medieval period.
Unit: 2 Development of Building Technology
Gothic, trabeated, corbelled, arch, domical etc.
Unit: 3 Revolutions and their Influences on Culture
Revolutions; from renaissance to industrial revolution; India and other civilizations upto 17th century, colonial, industrial, American and French; theory of evolution; artists of the renaissance; Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo; impressionism and post-impressionism.
Unit: 4 Art and Its Development
Art from 1900 to 1920; art in India and West from 1920 to the present century art.
Unit: 5 New Art Forms and Techniques
Print-making, photography, pottery, weaving, action painting moblies, etc.
2.3 Applied Geology
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 100 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introductory Earth Science and Meteorology
Earth as a planet, the solar system, movement of the earth, atmosphere and its composition, composition of the earth; the earth processes; geological cycles, igneous activities, volcanoes, minerals and their properties; rock types and their character; bedding, outcrop and strikes; rock cycle-, geological and time scale; Indian stratigraphy
Unit: 2 Geological Structure, Land Forms, Weathering, Landslides and Mass Wasting
Description and classification of folds, faults, joints, uncomformities, fault planes, geometrical destruction, etc. land form types; erosionals, depositional fluvial, glacial, deolian and marine; rock weathering and climate; mechanical and chemical processes, soil formation, landslides, sources and causes of crystal displacements, types, characters and effects, unstability of hill slopes, prevention.
Unit: 3 Earthquake
Historical account, tectonic behaviour and seismic belts; causes, intensity and magnitude of earthquakes, seismic zoning in India, earthquake waves and their character, particle motion and behaviour in various geological formations; seismography, accelerograms and their interpretation, prediction and prevention; earthquake resistant structures.
Unit: 4 Selection of Site and Foundations
General considerations, sources of preliminary geological data particularly related to Indian stratigraphic sequences and the types of foundations, nature and preparation of foundation for road, bridge, building and other geotechnical structures; geophysical explorations.
Unit: 5 Ground Water
Concept and role in town planning of different types of terrain,hydrologic cycle, vertical distribution of groundwater, interstices.
Groundwater bearing properties of different lithological formations, porosity, permeability, specific yield, specific retention, transmissivity and storage coefficient; ground water in igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks; aquifers; types and classification (geological), aquiclude, aquitard; aquifuge, water table and piezometric surface; surface water reservoirs and springs; artificial recharge and ground water mound hydrological features in relation of seepage, fluctuation of water table and hydrographs, geological structure and underground passages for water supply.
2.4 Theory of Design
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 100 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Forms
Form in inanimate nature, biological nature and human environment.
Unit: 2 Design
Design as a problem solving activity, as a multivariate activity; idea-idealism-form-design, value judgement in design.
Unit: 3 Perception
Thinking techniques, intuition.
Unit: 4 Building Elements
Elements of a building and their meaning; measurable and non- measurable aspects in the design of building elements.
Unit: 5 Architecture
Architecture of space, air, water and earth; examples from architecture, art, sculpture, etc.
2.5 Statistical Methods – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Linear Regression Analysis
Linear and non-linear regression, lines of regression, coefficient of regression.
Unit: 2 Time Series
Variation in time series, trend analysis, cyclical variation, seasonal variation, irregular variation, time series analysis forecasting.
Unit: 3 Index Number
Defining an index number, types and use of index numbers; construction of index number; simple aggregate method etc. cost of living index number and its construction.
Unit: 4 Estimation and Testing of Hypothesis
Types of estimation; point, interval, testing of hypotheses, statistical hypothesis, simple and composite tests of significance, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis. types of errors, level of significance, critical region.
Unit: 5 Large Sample Test, Chi-Square Test
Test for single proportion; test of significance for single mean, chi- square distribution applications of chi-square distribution; test of goodness of fit.
2.6 Arts and Graphics – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial =3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 150 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Basic Design
Compositions in shape, form and colour with special emphasis on rhythm, balance. harmony and proportion; human figures in different scales; sketches of different buildings, streets, etc; process of creative thinking.
Unit - 2 Standard Presentation Format
Composition of drawings, proportion of lettering for varying emphasis, drawing pens and their use for different purposes; standard drawing format, standard symbols and notations in drawings.
Unit: 3 Presentation Drawings and Communication Skills
Preparation of presentation drawings of a house, cluster and a site layout in black and white as well as colour; data presentation; communication skills for a presentation.
Unit: 4 Sculpture and Modelling
Concrete Scripture, plasticine modelling; sculpture and modelling of natural landscape with plaster of paris; paper mache.
Unit: 5 Mural Painting
With pastel, crayon etc. on the wall.
2.7 Basic Design – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 Factors and concepts related to building design-climate, site characteristics, land form, visual elements, behavioural factors and space utilization; design of residential, commercial, institutional and other buildings (only two types to be selected every year).
Measured drawings to develop perception of area, volume and building elements relationships.
Appreciation studies of residential, commercial or industrial area.
THIRD SEMESTER
3.1 Evolution of Human Settlements
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introduction
The importance and significance of the study of history, human settlements as the physical expression of a civilization; increasing urbanisation and need for higher levels of expertise to handle the situation in future; human settlements planning as the end result of this understanding.
Unit: 2 Planning Elements and Dimensions
The concept of scale; elements of settlement planning; space, form and structure; role of climate in the final form of a settlement pattern; the technological aspects of form through the ages.
Concept of time as dimension of the built form; concept of space and scale as followed through different cultures; the elements of the town, the house, the street, the chowk; social and cultural criteria of location of towns and activities within it.
Unit: 3 Planning Through the Ages
Planning in ancient India; Manasara Treatise and socio-cultural bias of planning; planning as an activity reflecting the cultural context of an era.
Planning in the other parts of the world; the structure of the Islamic city and the Role of the Jami Masjid as a landmark planning in Greece; the Roman city, the European Medieval cities and Medieval planning in India, the common elements of the Indian and European Medieval towns; renaissance and idea of the baroque plan.
Unit: 4 The Modern City
Technological advances and their effect on the town; utopian thinking and movements about urban improvement and planning; the concept of neighbourhood planning; planning concept and city structure in typical new town design, foreign examples; plan and concept of Chandigarh.
Unit: 5 Synthesis
The concept of ring towns and satellite towns; Delhi Master Plan and the concept of NCR; disorientation of contemporary towns from its cultural context; the concept of conservation; the role of planner as a central figure to understand the present day problems through the medium of the study of history
3.2 Computer Programming and Applications – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 100 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction
Introduction to computer; types of computer, computer Organisation, computer peripherals, input/output media, devices, software/hardware concepts and history of computer; bits, bytes & concepts of high level language.
Unit: 2 Flow Charts
Flow charts, data processing methods, EDP, concepts of data, data items, records and files, types of files; design of proforma, data validation, data coding and preparation for computer analysis.
Unit: 3 Other Packages
Other packages related to data base (OBMS) with applications in the area of planning.
Unit: 4 Word Processing Package and Its.Application
Word processing package, mail merge, spell check mail merge.
3.3 Principles of Planning – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Concept Formation and Perception of Space
Thinking process; cognitive units, concept formation, hypothesizing, conceptual scheme and behaviour formation; perception of space, behaviour pattern in small spaces-, space at city scale; urban activity patterns, urban symbolism, image of the city, building attributes, cognitive maps; urban behaviour; attitudes towards city, metropolitan personality, geographical space, functional space.
Unit: 2 What is Planning
Definitions, planning as a hierarchical process, systems concept, systematic planning, optimisation, planning as a problem solving process, philosophy and purpose of planning; justification of planning, essential features of planning, ecological perspective of planning, the scope and meaning and objectives of planning; town planning as a practice, profession and discipline; the nature of town planning problems; development of planning thought.
Unit: 3 Physical Planning
Origin of physical planning; basic questions: essential features and cornerstones of physical planning, changes within physical environment; systemic change, systems approach to physical planning, control mechanisms, physical planning as a guidance and control of change contributions of physical planning to economic and social development, planning in transition; dimensions of change, future directions.
Unit: 4 Process of Planning
Definition and meaning of values, norms, goals and objectives methodology of goal formulation; development plans: form and content of the RAG report new planning system structure plans, local plans. district plans, action area plans, public participation, people and plans, regional planning.
Unit: 5 Plan Preparation and Implementation Agencies
Central, state and local government agencies; management structures of agencies; development control; regulations; importance of town and country planning acts in India.
3.4 Techniques of Planning – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures =3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total =100 Unit: 1 Techniques of Preparing Base Maps
Choice of appropriate scale for region and settlement level plans; town development plans, zonal development plans, layout plans; graphical, linear and areal scales; contents of base maps at various scales, techniques of reducing and enlarging maps; notations - basic disciplines of maps.
Unit: 2 Data Base for Planning and Socio-Economic Surveys
Data requirements for urban and regional planning; sources of primary and secondary data; questionnaire design, measurement scales and their application; sampling techniques, types of socioeconomic surveys; self surveys, interviews, mailed questionnaires and observer participation.
Unit: 3 Physical Surveys
Techniques of conducting surveys for land use, building use, density, structural condition of buildings, heights of building, land utilization and physical features of land.
Unit: 4 Techniques of Presenting and Analysing Data
Land use classification, coding and analysis; residential and non- residential density patterns and analysis, tabulation of data; graphical presentation of data; pie diagrams, histograms, bar charts, normal, semi-log and double log graphs and their uses; colour, black and white presentation techniques; basic disciplines of illustration and tables.
3.5 Ecology and Resource Management
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction
Meaning and scope of ecology; evolution of ecology; man, environment and ecosystem; components of nature and basic concepts and processes of ecology; flow of material, water energy, invasion, succession, predation, regulatory forces, adaption, trophic levels, food chain, food web, ecological pyramids.
Unit: 2 Ecosystem and its Relevance to Environment
Resources and human settlements, impact of advanced agricultural methods, urbanisation and industrialisation. on nature; urban ecosystem approach, evolution and significance; soil, water, land, vegetation and energy resources; resource development and management.
Unit: 3 Quantitative Ecology
Introduction to quantitative ecology, identification of ecological parameters for planning at different levels; site planning, settlement planning and regional planning; data needs and format for data collection; types of analyses required to evolve ecological parameters.
Unit: 4 Environmental Impact Studies
Environment impact studies of development projects.
3.6 Traffic and Transportation Planning – I
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Urbanisation and Transport Problem
Traffic characteristics and problems at national, regional and urban level; different modes of transport; slow and fast and their characteristics; vehicle types, capacity, overloading factor; vehicle characteristics and road characteristics.
Unit: 2 Urban and Regional Road Design
Road hierarchies, classification, capacity and level of service; space standards for road design, land acquisition, components; objectives and functions; intersection types; uncontrolled, controlled; space sharing and time sharing junctions; merits and demerits, design considerations; design in built up areas, cycling and pedestrian systems, design considerations and guidelines; road and road transport infrastructure; terminals, depots, bus bays, stops, fuel stations etc.
Unit: 3 Surveys and Studies
Demand and supply surveys and studies: traffic assessment; traffic volume, traffic density, traffic flow and speed; parking supply and demand survey; control, provision and layout of on street and off street parking, traffic regulatory measures for parking, pedestrian facilities; pedestrian volume studies, origin-destination studies, controlled crossings.
Unit: 4 Geometric Design of Roads and Intersections
Components of geometric design in new development and built-up areas; horizontal and vertical alignment, network alignment planning, sight distance, cross-section, alignment check, lateral and vertical clearance, control of axis; design guidelines for transport infrastructure.
Unit: 5 Traffic Management
Objectives, principles and approaches for traffic management; traffic signs and signals; types of traffic signs, sign standards, location and maintenance; traffic signals; types, advantages and disadvantages; traffic safety, environmental area concept and application.
3.7 Planning and Design Studio (Transportation Aspects)
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 Following surveys relating to transportation aspects will be carried out: traffic volume survey, speed and delay studies, parking studies, pedestrian studies, road geometrics and road components, rotaries and signalised intersections.
Analysis of the data and presentation of the same through scale drawings and written documents; design of road sections, road junctions and rotaries.
Preparation of area traffic circulation plan by studying the existing land use, existing circulation pattern, geometric design, level of services provided by the networks and traffic management measures.
FOURTH SEMESTER
4.1 Quantity Surveying and Specifications
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Specification
Significance, methods of writing specifications; general specifications for common building materials and building trades; earthwork, structure (framing), flooring, stonework, plasters, waterproofing of basements and terraces, roofing, doors and windows.
Unit: 2 Specifications for Infrastructure Work
Water supply, pipes and sanitary fittings, overhead tanks. electrical fixtures, elevators.
Unit: 3 Specifications for External Work
Landscaping, roads, pathways, boundary wall, pools, lighting, concept of outline specifications.
Unit: 4 Estimation
Cost estimation and determination of rates of works involved in the infrastructure services.
Unit: 5 Development Costs of Planning Schemes as per Standards, Norms
Costing procedure; raw land, land for different land use categories, development works, interest on investment, and phasing.
4.2 Computer Programming and Applications – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 100 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Workstation
Graphical devices, concept of computer graphics
Unit: 2 Graphical Presentation
Packages related with graphical presentation of data (like harvard graphics).
Unit: 3 Drafting and Designing
A graphical package (like autocad) for drafting and designing 2D and 3D objects; storing drawings in different layers; creating digitizing a map through graphical package.
Unit: 4 Spread Sheet
Analysis of data using spread sheet package.
4.3 Principles of Planning – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Urban Structure and Growth
Definitions, concepts and examples of urbanisation, urban growth, urbanism, development of a city as an organism, a physical entity, a social entity and a political entity; land values, economic attributes of activity location, economic forces in urban development, locational theory, the urban functions and interrelationships, the theories of urban structure and growth.
Unit: 2 Land Use Planning
Definition and explanation of the concepts of density, floor area ratio, land use and zoning, land use and use classification, location and interrelationship; case studies of land use planning in Indian cities, foreign examples and comparisons; basic concepts of land use planning.
Unit: 3 Types of Planning
Long term and short term planning, perspective planning, development planning, normative planning, sectoral and spatial planning, single and multi-level planning, integrated area planning; the comprehensive development plan of a city, its scope and contents, zoning development plans and layout plans, and case studies; design concepts for new towns; the planning process followed in India, planning at the local, state, regional and national levels.
Unit:4 Principles of Regional Planning
Integration between national and local level plans, spatial and aspatial planning, sectoral plans and their spatial dimensions; balanced growth and development; the rural-urban relationships; city in the context of a region, their classification system, spatial structure of a region, principles in delineation of a region.
Unit: 5 Regional Planning in India
Concepts of balanced regions, development as imbibed in the five year economic development plans; unbalanced growth, special and backward regions; national capital regional plan; south-east resource region; river valley projects; implementation machinery for regional plans, regional planning boards, funding procedures and phasing.
4.4 Techniques of Planning – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Planning Practice in India
An overview of evolution from piecemeal projects, town planning schemes, comprehensive development plans for towns and cities to regional planning, efforts; metropolitan planning and metropolitan region development plans; scope and content of planning practice today; role of central and state and local governments in urban and regional planning and development; evolution of local governments, development authorities and other planning and development agencies and their role in planning and planning administration.
Unit: 2 Spatial Standards
Formulation of spatial standards for residential, industrial, commercial and recreational areas; space standards for facility areas and utilities.
Unit: 3 Regional Survey
Techniques for conducting regional surveys; data requirements for various types of regional plans; district level plans, metropolitan region plans, backward regions, resource regions, etc.; regional delineation techniques.
Unit: 4 Plan Preparation Techniques
Methodologies for preparation of urban/regional development plans, master plans, structure plan and strategy plan techniques; plan implementation techniques; public participation and plan implementation; techniques of urban renewal and central area re- development.
Unit: 5 Introduction to Advanced Techniques
Systems approach to planning, thresholds analysis, retail location and industrial location analysis; intervening opportunity models.
4.5 Environmental Science
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Environmental Disruptions
Study of environmental disruptions; different types of pollution such as air, water, marine and noise; pollution, constituents, sources, processes, tools and techniques of measurement, assessment of direct and indirect effects on land, water, vegetation, structures, living beings and others; pollution control and management.
Unit: 2 Solid Waste Management
Types of solid wastes and their management.
Unit: 3 Forest Resources
Forest resources; their importance and management; waste land develop- ment.
Unit: 4 Environmental Problems
Global environmental problems such as green house effect, ozone depletion, atmospheric change, change in micro- climate, bio-diversity and acid rain; environmental education awareness; institutional elements and international initiatives.
4.6 Elements of Economics
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Definition and Scope of Economics
Central problems of economics; micro and macro economic decisions, use of economics in planning.
Unit: 2 Theory of Demand and Supply
Law of demand and supply, elasticities of demand and supply, its use in planning.
Unit: 3 Theory of Firm & Production
Perfect and imperfect market types, market demand and supply, pricing under different market conditions; theory of production; factors of production, costs, scale of production, and economies of scale.
Unit: 4 Concept of Income, Employment and Money
Classical and modern approaches, growth and development indicators; measures of national income, defining development and under development.
Unit: 5 Introduction to Urban and Regional Economics
Use of economic concepts in urban planning, housing, transport, taxes, land use, location, etc.; use of economic concepts in regional planning; location, disparities in development, input - output techniques, sectoral development etc.
4.7 Planning and Design Studio (Housing Aspects)
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 Unit: 1 Group Housing Design
Design and preparation of plan, sections and elevation of low rise and high rise apartments taking into account the building byelaws and zoning regulations; preparation of presentation drawings.
Unit: 2 Working Drawings
Introduction to the working drawings; preparation of plans sections, elevations and important details of an apartment unit; internal jury for group housing design and working drawings.
Unit: 3 Site Layout
Site analysis, development standards, and preparation of the design brief,
Various considerations for site layout, conceptual approach to site planning preparation of preliminary layout and area analysis,
Final layout showing the circulation and basic infrastructure,
Rough costing of the scheme.
FIFTH SEMESTER
5.1 Utilities and Services Planning
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction, Basic Concepts and Theories
Role of physical planner in planning of utilities and services; Objectives of utilities and services planning and implications for public health and environmental protection; hydrology, precipitation, hydrological cycle, urban water cycle; measurement of precipitation, intensity-duration-frequency relationships, rainfall formula, rainfall map; surface water; watershed, runoff, hydrograph, measurement of discharge for small and big rivers; rational method for estimating run off, unit hydrograph and application, flood frequencies, flood protec- tion.
Unit: 2 Storm Water System
Estimating storm run-off, run-off co-efficient, rainfall intensity, time of concentration; gravity flow, hydraulic gradient line, Manning's formula and nomographs, full flow and partial flow; layout and design of storm water system; general considerations, inlets, self-cleansing velocity, non-scouring velocity, physical layout-design principles, data requirement; hydraulic design of storm water system; computation procedure.
Unit: 3 Sanitation and Sewer System
On-site detention, design procedure for on-site detention; low cost appropriate technologies for sanitation; off-site and on-site technology upgradation.
Sanitary sewer system, sewer network, materials used; sewer system location and layout, data needs and procedure of planning; quantity of sewage, standards for Indian cities, computer simulation design procedure for storm water and sewerage system; sewer appurtenances; sewer lift station, sewer pumping and forced main manholes.
Unit: 4 Water Supply System
Water distribution system, measurement of pressure and velocity, pressure requirement and number of storeys of buildings; water requirement for different land uses, factors affecting water demand, per capita requirement and its relationship with population size, variation of water consumption; seasonal & hourly, peak factor; demand of water for fire fighting; distribution and storage; types and locational criteria, operating storage for 24 hours, 14 hours and 8 hours of pumping; pumps; types, efficiency, head, head loss system, flow conservation of energy and total energy; water supply distribution system, layout design of water supply system; flow in pipe network, hydraulically equivalent pipes, pipes in series and parallel; pipe network analysis, Hardy Cross method and its use for designing complex network;'Loop' and 'Branch' computer simulation for water supply design.
Unit: 5 Solid Waste Disposal
Solid waste management for Indian cities, issues and data base, quantity of solid waste and its character, collection and transportation, disposal of solid waste, land filling and composting, pre and post treatment; Indore and Bangalore methods, incineration, pyrolysis and recycling park.
5.2 Demography and Urbanisation
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Study of Population
Demographic variables-fertility, mortality, migration; evolution of population study, contribution of Malthus; mortality-trends, mortality in developed and developing countries; biological and social factors and mortality- gender, race, social structure, life style, social status, occupation etc; measures of mortality-crude and age-specific death rates; infant mortality, repro- ductive ages, advance ages; adjusted or standardised death rates; neonatal mortality rate; fertility-fertility trends, fertility and social and biological behaviour; differential fertility, ethnic group, socio-economical group mobility, location etc.; measures of fertility, crude birth rate.
Age-specific fertility rate; total fertility rate, net reproduction rate; migration-causes and consequences of population movement; reasons and types of migration trends; theories of migration and population movement; methods of measuring volumes of migration; direct and indirect measures; effects of migration on composition of population.
Unit: 2 Study of Demography
Source of demographicdata; population structure and composition - age sex composition, sex ratio, dependency ratio, child-woman ratio; measures of age - sex structure, age-sex pyramid, population composition; marital status, cast region, literacy level, etc; life table techniques; techniques in preparing life table, abridged life table; population estimation, projection and population forecasting; basic cohorts survival model, inter regional cohorts survival model.
Unit: 3 World Urbanisation and Urbanisation in India
Urban revolution; its preconditions; brief history of urbanisation in the world leading upto the industrial cities, related problems, concepts of urbanism and urbanisation; brief history of urbanisation in India; Mughal and British influences of Indian cities; post- independence urbanisation; urbanisation process as influenced by sociocultural, political, economic and administrative factors; definition of urban centres, concepts of rural urban continuum and dichotomy; census definition of urban places town, cities, town groups, urban agglomerations, standard urban area metropolis, megalopolis etc. functional classification of urban places.
Unit: 4 Settlement System and Role of Urban Area
Settlement system, primate city, rank-size rule, central place concept, concepts of complementary area, central goods and services, range, threshold etc; city-region relationships; structure of city regions, area of influence, dominance; rural-urban fringes; its structure, stages of growth, its role in urban growth; urbanisation, industrialisation and urban development; push and pull factors; migration trends and impacts on urban and rural development.
Unit: 5 Policies and Strategies for Directing Urbanisation Trends in India
Urbanisation policy, basic issues in urbanisation policy; role of national and state level policies; five year plans, latest attempts at urbanisation policy formulation in the country; salient features of the report of the national commission of urbanisation.
5.3 Traffic and Transportation Planning – II
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Evaluation of Urban Structures
Transport systems, infrastructure and management, transport systems and their types, design and operating characteristics, urban road hierarchy, planning engineering and management criteria for road and junction improvements, arterial improvement techniques.
Unit: 2 Planning and Management of Transport System
Study area definitions, surveys and their types, sampling of travel methods, survey techniques; programming and scheduling, processing of travel data, analysis and interpretation of traffic studies; introduction to transport planning process; trip generation, trip distribution, trip assignment, modal split, land use transportation models; existing organisational and legal framework, traffic and environmental management techniques; review of the existing traffic management schemes in case cities.
Unit: 3 Regional Transport Systems
Importance of accessibility in regional transport planning, role of road, rail, air and water transport systems; regional transport systems planning; road network planning for micro regions.
Unit: 4 Transport and Environment
Traffic noise, factors affecting noise, noise abatement measures, standards; air pollution standards; traffic safety; accident reporting and recording systems; factors affecting road safety; transport plan- ning for target groupschildren adults, handicapped and women; norms and guidelines for highway landscape; street lighting types, standards and design considerations.
Unit: 5 Economic Evaluation and Transport Policies
Pricing and funding of transport service and systems; economic appraisal of highway and transport projects; techniques for estimating direct and indirect road user costs benefits, value of time; review of national, state and local level transport policies and their relevance in spatial and economic planning, pricing and funding of transport systems; energy and environmental implications in transport; transport policy planning; transport planning in developing countries.
5.4 Housing and Community Planning
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Housing as a Basic Human Necessity
A major land use component and integral sector of urban and regional development; the housing problem; classification of housing by cli- mate, materials, location, tenure, income, sociocultural features and design.
Unit: 2 Role of Community Development in Housing
Communities; its characteristics and housing.
Unit: 3 Housing Standards
Basic principles in formulating housing standards for rural and urban areas; desirable and minimum standards.
Unit: 4 Planning- and Design of Housing Areas
Physical and social infrastructure; housing densities and implica- tions; patterns of housing development in urban areas, housing for the urban poor and the informal sector; strategies and approaches with case studies; basic factors and reasons for emergence of slums; iden- tification of slum areas; socioeconomic implications of slums; clear- ance/improvement of slums; sites and services schemes, squatter up- grading, incremental approach.
Unit: 5 Housing and Finance Policies
Co-operative housing; objectives and principles; management and financing of housing projects; investment in housing in public and private sectors.
5.5 Settlement Geography
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction to Settlement Geography
Nature and scope of settlement geography, origin, setting evolution and structure of human settlements: man, environment and society; social economic and political consequences of geographical conditions; physical features and its effect on urban and rural communities.
Unit: 2 Classification of Settlements
Census classification, urban, rural census size classes: theories of settlement systems, primate city settlement system. rank size rule relationship; central place settlement systems, fundamental concepts, concepts of hierarchy, concept of complimentary area. range of goods; (dynamics of central places. settlement systems in at developing economy.
Unit: 3 Rural Settlements
Types, patterns, morphology, house types, comparative study of origin and growth of settlements in ancient and modern times rural housing problems and policies.
Unit: 4 Urban Settlements
City structure, new towns and cities, environmental impact of planned and unplanned growth, rural - urban fringe.
Unit: 5 Settlements as a System
Rural and urban continuum, settlements as a hierarchy; areas of influences, areas of dominance, distance decay effect.
5.6 Development Planning
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Developed, Developing and Under-Developed Economics
Characteristics, indicators and phases of development; obstacles to development; business cycles; levels of development; series of development and planning relevance of economic development in physical planning.
Unit: 2 Classical Theories of Development
Introduction to Adam Smith's theory, specialisation and division of labour; Ricardian theory of rent; land value.and quasi-rent.
Unit: 3 Modern Theories of Development
Keynesian revolution - innovation theory, back wash and spread effect;, critical minimum effort and stages of economic growth.
Unit: 4 Models of Development
Balanced vs. unbalanced - dualistic approach in development; derived development; Lewis model; Harrod-Domar model; Sen's model, etc.; development models in Indian planning - first to eighth five year plan; effectiveness of the models in Indian planning.
Unit: 5 Issues in Growth and Development
Planning in India - goals and objectives; targets and achievements impact, types of planning - regional disparities, population and poverty, unemployment, savings, balance of trade and payments, resource transfers and regional development, sectoral priorities and development; structural reform and its impact on growth; financing five year plans.
5.7 Planning and Design Studio (Area Planning / Zonal Planing)
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 The different approaches to plan making; the concepts of master plan, comprehensive development plan - the structure plan, the sector plan, the zonal plan, and other types of plan making processes,
The approach to developing the zonal plan in the framework of a given master plan,
The study and development of the relevant planning standards for different land uses,
Development of sub division regulations and building bye- laws,
Detailing of specific sites in the proposed zonal plans, covering different land uses,
Report writing.
SIXTH SEMESTER
6.1 Urban Design and Conservation
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introduction to Urban Design Theory
Relationship between architecture, urban design and planning; city as a three dimensional entity; study of volumes and open spaces at all levels; a brief historic review of the development of the urban design discipline and principles.
Unit: 2 Elements of Urban Design
Urban form as determined by inter-play of masses, voids, building typology; scale, harmony, symmetry colour, texture, light and shade; dominance, height, urban signage and graphics; Organisation of spaces and their articulation in the form of squares, streets, vistas and focal points; image of the city and its components such as edges, paths, landmarks, street features, sky-line, etc.; urban transportation.
Unit: 3 Physical and Non-Physical Determinants of Urban Forms
Activity and the morphology of places; form, size and structure of cities and the related geometry co-related with their determinants; case studies of urban design characteristics of cities in India and abroad; related issues for public intervention.
Unit: 4 Basic Principles of Conservation
Overview and introduction of the basic concepts of conservation values, attitudes and principles for judging the conservation importance of sites, areas and related typology; scope and basic techniques of urban conservation.
Unit: 5 Aspects of Urban Conservation
Legal and administrative aspects, archaeological acts/charters pertaining to conservation. development and conservation; case studies of proposals for urban conservation of sites/areas in India and abroad.
6.2 Operations Research and Systems Analysis/Computer Application – III
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures =3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Linear Programming Problems
Introduction, mathematical formulation of the problem, solution methods and problems, graphical solution, simplex method; duality and post-optimality analysis.
Unit: 2 Transportation Problems
North-West corner rule, Vogel's approximation method, modified distribution method, transhipment problems, the assignment and the travelling salesman problem.
Unit: 3 Queuing Systems
General structure and operating characteristics, deterministic queuing model, probabilistic queuing models, Poisson-exponential single server model.
Unit: 4 PERT and CPM Networks
Rules of network construction, determination of critical path, earliest and latest schedules, slack and float, resource analysis and allocation.
Unit: 5 System Simulation
Systems concept, types of systems, system modelling, types of models, nature and process of simulation, Monte Carlo simulation, simulation of queuing systems, applications of simulation; computer application; computer packages of operations research models, spread sheet analysis, what-if ? simulation using lotus, simulation languages.
6.3 Planning and Management of Informal Sector and Basic Needs
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Urban Poverty
Dimensions of urban poverty, magnitude of problem, urban poverty alleviation programmes; impact of macro-economic structural adjustment policies on poor urban households.
Unit: 2 Basic Needs
Development of the concept of basic needs; identification of basic needs and their provision for various target groups and informal sectors; standards for basic needs, NGO'g and voluntary organisations associated with provision of basic needs.
Unit: 3 Alternative Approaches for Delivery of Basic Services to the Urban Poor
Community planning approach, low cost alternatives and institutional reforms approach.
Unit: 4 Migratory Impulses and Impact on Informal Sector
Characteristics of migrants and their association with growth of informal sector; socio-economic deprivation and informal sector; development of informal sector concept.
Unit: 5 Consequences of Spontaneous Growth
Study of major aspects; spontaneous living and working, their charac- teristics and functions in urban context, actions for improvement; appraisal of the role of government, private and voluntary organisa- tions; existing management; their organisational set-up and limita- tions; planning and development of urban settlements in respect of the spontaneous growth; case studies from India and other developing countries.
6.4 Landscape Planning and Design
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Landscape Elements
Landscape as an outcome of natural processes; principles and tech- niques of design with landform, water and vegetation; the role of surface materials, outdoor fittings and structures; man-made land- scapes in history; a comparative study of the major traditions of landscape design in the east and the west in relation to concepts of space and variations in the use of landscape elements.
Unit: 2 Urban Landscape
Characteristics and components of open space patterns in towns and cities (traditional and contemporary) basic types: streets, squares, plazas, gardens, ghats and maidan, public parks at district, local and neighbourhood levels; park systems; landscape design related to land- use, circulation networks and activity; street furniture as a component of urban landscape.
Unit: 3 Landscape Aspects of Site Planning - I
Principles of understanding and evaluating and existing landscape; development as a response to constraints and opportunities offered by the site; the landscape concept and open space structure as a basic component of the site plan.
Unit: 4 Landscape Aspects of Site Planning - II
The role of vegetation: environmental benefits, functional require- ments, aesthetic considerations; typical situations and criteria for design with plants and selection of species; grading; in relation to existing contours, plinth levels, road alignment and storm water drainage-, principles of cut and fill.
Unit: 5 Elements of Landscape Planning
The rural landscape; characteristics, components and change related to agriculture, forestry and development; western experience of landscape planning; landscape assessment techniques; the concept of landscape quality; landscape planning as a component of regional development proposals for industrial location (manufacturing and extractive); environmental conservation, tourism, etc.; landscape planning in the context of urban extensions and new towns.
6.5 Land Economics and Locational Theory
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction to Land Economics
Economic concepts of land, objectives and scope of land economics; relevance for spatial planning; economic principles of land uses; economic rent, land use and land values, market mechanism and land use pattern.
Unit: 2 Development of Land and Real Property
Process, cost of development, source of finance, financial calcula- tion for private developer.
Unit: 3 Real Property Markets
Heterogeneity and imperfections, valuation of real property- princi- ples and practices; private ownership and social control of land; disposal of land; land development charges and betterment levy; land use restrictions, compensation and requisition taxation of capital gain onland versus public ownerships, economic aspects of land poli- cies at various levels of decision making.
Unit:4 Factors Influencing Locational Decisions
Analysis of location of specific uses like residential, industrial, commercial and institutional in the light of location theories in intra-regional and inter-regional context.
Unit: 5 Technique of Cost Benefit Analysis
Techniques of cost benefit analysis of urban development programme.
6.6 Elements of Settlement Sociology
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction
Definition and scope of sociology; relationship between sociology and town planning.
Unit: 2 Basic Concepts of Society
Basic concepts, social groups, social institutions, social stratifications, orders and changes and social control.
Unit: 3 Sociology of India
Culture, language, religion, caste, rural community and its relationship with urban community, social division of urban and rural poor.
Unit: 4 Urban and Industrial Sociology
Urbanisation and urbanism; social aspects of urban-rural migration; concept of industrial society; social aspects of industrialisation; social problems of urban community; crime delinquency and violence.
Unit: 5 Neighbourhood Concept
Implications and limitations in Indian context.
6.7 Planning and Design Studio (Development Plan Preparation for a Town
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Practicals/Tutorial = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 The study for this studio exercise shall be limited to the preparation of a comprehensive development plan of a small town; The programme may carry a predetermined focus such as planning for tourism, energy conservation, heritage conservation etc. The studio programme is designed to expose the student to:
Study and establish appropriate planning standards,
Techniques of population projection,
Identification of the data to be collected and the sources thereof,
Organising surveys and collecting socioeconomic, traffic and other data,
Using selected computer software to analyse the data,
Projecting the future with different scenarios and identification of 'action areas' (i.e., specific problems related with housing, services, circulation, etc.),
Preparation and presentation of all relevant drawings and reports of complete comprehensive development plan proposal.
SEVENTH SEMESTER
7.1 Rural and Resource Planning
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 4 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introduction
Village as an organic entity; physical, social, and economic structure of village; village problems related to cultivated land, cultivable land, waste land, flooding and water logging, utilities and services, poverty and distress; rural urban relationship-, complimentarities, continuation and dichotomy; problems related to rural-urban migration.
Unit: 2 Village Planning: Concepts and Institutional Framework
Trans-humance, accessibility of villages, inter-village communication, delivery of social services, rural reconstruction and related programmes, improvement of rural sanitation, hygiene and drainage; panchayati raj institutions; district block and village administration.
Unit: 3 Rural Planning in Relation to National and Regional Policies
Norms, principles and strategies for rural development; afforestation, soil conservation and wild life preservation; planning for sustainable agriculture; rural development programmes.
Unit: 4 Resource Planning Development and Management
Endowments; types of resources, exhaustive and replenishible resources development; utilization and conservation of national, technological and human resources; resource management, recycling of resources and resource equilibrium; water resource management, waste land management; rural industrialisation and use of non-conventional energy in rural development; major resource development programmes in India; case studies of resource development projects in agriculture, forestry, minerals, water, manpower, etc.
Unit: 5 Community Development and Participation
Community development,community development and rural planning; basic principles of self-help techniques and role of voluntary organisations in community development; appropriate technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship.
7.2 Planning Information Systems and Computer Use
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction
Definition of systems, systems hierarchy, nature of systems, nature of organisations and control systems; definition of information, value of information, handling of information, information flows and loops; information systems and systems design; Competitors in information systems; definition of data, file structure and Organisation, data manipulation, data bank and data administration.
Unit: 2 Information Systems
Planning information system; types and modes of operation, limitations and pre-conditions for using systems; data base management information systems; management of tabular data, spread sheets, introduction to statistical packages with advantages and limitations of each; municipal information system: definition, need, scope, limitations and introduction to related software.
Unit: 3 Geographic Information System
Introduction, components, benefits, data structure for GIS, thematic maps, map-data Organisation, goal setting and projecting needs and trends in GIS.
Unit: 4 Use Map
Introduction, configuration required, menus, general menu, practical exercises and case studies.
Unit: 5 Other Packages
Introduction to the maps, presenting thematic data, hardware requirements, practical exercise and case studies; introduction to digitization; hardware requirements, digitizing functions, practical exercise; introduction to latest trends-, ARC/INFO; ISROGIS, NICGIS, GPS/ GRAM.
7.3 . Urban Management
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Introduction to Management
Principles and practices, techniques and approaches; their application in urban management.
Unit: 2 Legal Framework
Development control mechanisms; property laws governing transfer, letting, leasing and mortgaging.
Unit: 3 Urban Management
Institutional and organisational framework , existing institutional and organisational setting for urban management in India; distribution of responsibilities and activities among different levels as government and their special purpose bodies in the urban field; significance of organisational framework.
Unit: 4 Organisations Involved in Urban Management
Local government; types, Organisation (deliberative and executive wings), powers and functions, resources, state supervision control and conditions of their working; improvement trust: organisations, scope of their powers and functions, and their working; city development authorities: organisations, scope of their powers and functions, resources, and their working.
Unit: 5 Coordination of Participation
Inter-organisation relations and coordination at the local level, alternative to multiplicity of authorities-various models, their advantages and limitations; citizen participation in urban development and management.
7.4 Project Planing and Control
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Introduction to Project Management
Importance of project management; reasons for shortfall in its performance; scientific managements; life cycle of project.
Unit: 2 Project Planning Management
Methodology for project identification and formulation; detailed project report, and feasibility studies; techniques of financial appraisal, pay back period, IRR, DCF, NPV, CBR, social-cost benefit analysis.
Unit: 3 Pre-Implementation Planning Phase
Word break down structure; network analysis; CPM, PERT; resource levelling and allocation; time-cost trade off aspects;
Unit: 4 Project Implementation and Evaluation Phase
Organisation of project; matrix Organisation, task forces, project teams; monitor and control of project.
7.5 Public Finance
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Taxation
Principles, direct and indirect taxation, tax incidences; general, specific taxes; delegation of tax powers.
Unit: 2 Fees and Charges
Quid-pre-que tariff structure and gross subsidisation, cost recovery.
Unit: 3 Borrowing
Sources of borrowing; government, market, institutional; long term development finance, ways and means of advance, debt rescheduling repayment.
Unit: 4 Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations
Grants; general and specific; assigned and shared taxes, plan assistance, fiscal equalisation. and finance commission, state supervision and control over municipal finance.
Unit: 5 Public Expenditure
Public expenditure; principles, revenue and capital, project appraisal, budgetary techniques including budgeting for capital projects.
7.6 Planning and Design Studio (Block/Sub-regional Plan)
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 11 Total = 11 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 300 Total = 600 Understanding the role and relevance of regional planning; state of art, role of planning at district and sub district level, critical appraisal of district/ sub district plans.
Formulation of goals, objectives, methodology, identification of data sources, analysis of data available, survey and preparation of schedules.
Field work: visit to the field study area; conducting surveys, collection of data from secondary sources, sectorally and block wise.
Detailed data analysis, identification of potential thrust areas and development issues, both sectorally and block wise.
Appropriate alternate strategy planning, settlement development strategy and programmes.
Formulation of sectoral prioritisation and financial allocation (block wise); final recommendations for a district/sub district development plan.
EIGHTH SEMESTER
8.1 Professional Practice
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Practicals/Tutorial = 1 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Organisation, Scope and Scale of Charges
Aims and objectives of professional institutes, sister bodies; professional roles and responsibilities of planning consultants; professional ethics; responsibilities towards clients, fellow professionals and general public; scope of services for different projects like master plan for urban area, zonal/ district plan, sector/neighbourhood; layout, group housing schemes, commercial centres, industrial estates etc; consultancy agreements, and safeguards; fees and scales of professional charges, competitions and copyrights.
Unit: 2 Role of Planner
Planner's input as professional at various levels and organisations, his role in decision making processes, relevant issues: generalists vs. specialists, professionals vs. technocrats, planner as decision maker vs. advisor to decision maker; relationship with client, developers, institutions and contractors; relationship with other experts such as engineers, architects, sociologists, economist, lawyers, etc. for specialised studies related to planning.
Unit: 3 Valuation
Fundamentals of valuation, ownership of land, compound interest theory, calculating for present value,concepts of economic rents and social rents, property taxes, sinking fund, annuity, depreciation, valuation tables; legislative framework-rent control, land acquisition, easements and their effects on properties.
Unit: 4 Methods of Real Property Valuation
Income capitalisation methods, land and building method and other methods of valuation.
Unit: 5 Contract Documents and Project Formulation
Tenders, contracts, arbitration, schedule of rates for construction; materials, labour and equipment for land development, units and mode of measurements, rate analysis; formulations of project proposals and outline.
8.2 Planning Legislation
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 3 Total = 3 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 100 Total = 150 Unit: 1 Concept of Law
Sources of law (custom, legislation and precedent); meaning of the term of law, legislation, ordinance, bill, act, regulations and bye- laws; significance of law and its relationship to urban planning; benefits of statutory backing for planning schemes; eminent domain and police powers.
Unit: 2 Indian Constitution
Concepts and contents of Indian Constitution; provisions regarding property rights; evolution of planning legislation and overview of legal tools connected with urban planning and development; model town planning laws.
Unit: 3 Land Acquisition Act
Introduction to land acquisition act, 1984.
Unit: 4 Case Studies Related to Land Acquisition Act
Case studies highlighting nature of contention, parties in dispute and the decisions in specific planning disputes.
Unit: 5 Organisations for Plan Implementation
Special purpose bodies for plan implementation such as urban/metropolitan development authorities, improvement trusts, water and sewerage boards, housing boards, slum improvement/clearance boards, transport undertakings; regional development boards.
8.3 Terminal Project
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Total = 2 Marks Internal Assessment = 300 Examination/External Assessment = 500 Total = 800 Each student of Bachelor of Planning is required to prepare terminal project on a subject concerning urban, rural or regional development as approved by the Head of the Department. The terminal project will provide an opportunity to the student to synthesize the knowledge and skills acquired through the learning of various theories and practices during the course.
8.4 Political Systems and Planning
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Total = 2 Marks Internal Assessment = 50 Examination/External Assessment = 50 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Decision Making
Decision-making; definition, features, factors, essentials and hindrances in sound decision-making; structure of decisions and types of decisions; theories of decision - making: rational theory, incremental theory, systems theory, game theory, conflict theory, Herbert Simon's contribution in decision making; decision makers and decision making bodies related to urban and regional planning at national, state and local level.
Unit: 2 Leadership
Planner's functions as a leader, urban development manager, public bureaucrat, policy analyst and social reformer, approaches to study leadership; trait-approach, behavioural approach and situational approach; role of the planner in the decision-making process; generalists vs. specialist.
Unit: 3 Communication
Importance of communications; elements, types, features and essentials of effective communications; hindrances to effective communication; theories of motivation; carrot and stick approach, need based theory, motivational environment policies; important elements of a sound motivational system; integration versus disintegration; coordination and cooperation; centralisation and decentralisation; single versus plural supervision; elements and types of organisations; theories of Organisation; scientific management theory; bureaucratic theory, classic theory, human relations theory, behavioural approach and systems approach.
Unit: 4 Political Systems, Social Systems and Planning
Democracy and planning, socialism and planning, fascism and planning; tribal society, peasant society, industrial society, spatial segregation in India.
Unit: 5 Conflicts
Nature and mode of resolution of conflicts; public participation in planning as an aid to better understanding planning and implementation; political nature of planning and implementation problems in India; examples from the other parts of the world highlighting situations where such problems have been minimized.
8.5 Technical Report Writing
Teaching Input (Hours/week) Lectures = 2 Total = 2 Marks Internal Assessment = 100 Total = 100 Unit: 1 Types & Classification of Reports
Types of reports, difference between technical, scientific, legal and other types of communication; specific characteristics of writing technical reports.
Unit: 2 Format and Elements of Reports
Preface, acknowledgements, contents, indexing, introduction, body, terminal section, appendices, bibliographies, references.
Unit: 3 Literature Survey
Use of libraries, knowledge of indexing and available reference material.
Unit: 4 Special Type of Writing
Special type of writing; articles and manuals, planning and preparation of technical articles for publication.
Unit: 5 Formal Letters & Specifications
Business and official letters, styles and format, requests for specifications and other types of business enquiries, replies to bidding for tenders conduct of meetings, responsibilities of the chairman and secretaries; agendas and minutes of meeting official records.