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UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI



Self-Financed Course

Syllabus

For


Master of Urban and Regional Planning







(As per Choice based Credit System
with ef fect from the academic year 2018 –2019 )

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Name of BOS Chairperson / Dean :
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No. Heading Particulars
1 Title of the
Course Master of Urban and Regional Planning
2 Eligibility for Admission Graduate students from Basic sciences, engineering,
architecture and Post -graduate students from Geography,
social sciences, commerce and management can join this
course.
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4 Ordinances / Regulations (
if any)
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( Strike out which is not applicable)
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8 Status New / Revised
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9 To be implemented from
Academic Year From Academic Year : 2018 -2019
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Urban and Regional planning and its significance
Rapid pace of urbanization has been one of the hallmarks of contemporary times. Though urban form
of spatial development has been one of the most dominating spatial forms since centuries, the present
scale, nature and form of urban development is drastically different and hence invites serious att ention.
With the advent of globalisation , there has been ‘recentralisation ’ of ‘development’. While divorcing
from the earlier policies of ‘decentralisation’, there has been a significant policy shift in post 1980s that
advocated and emphasised upon the role of megacities as ‘engines of growth’ and in linking and
integrating the ‘national’ economieswith the global one. Following these developments there have
been various policy initiatives in urban planning in India and abroad. In fact, with increasing interaction
between various economies there has been larger sharing of planning experiments and experiences. The
role of global agencies also has becomehighly significant in the process as they are the ones who have
been propagating specific capital -inten sive spatial imagination shap ingparticular policies ofurban
restructuring. In Indian context too, these transformations become significant as the global planning
discourse has decisively affected planning perspectives and mechanisms. The same has also i ntroduced
newer visions in urban planning. The role of the city is redefined to incorporate these newer visions. On
the one hand, such incorporations are making the cityscapes more attractive and creative, on the other,
the same is also bringing in stark spatio -social contradictions and inconsistencies in the pattern of urban
development. Such inconsistencies havealready introduced socio -cultural stratification and pol arisation
in urban social space leading to the whole trajectory of urban issues that revolve around t he questionof
right to the ci ty. Interestingly, these are not just the cities that are not getting reselected to work as
global nodes but their regions too. Thus, the cities and city -region shave been envisaged as centerpiece s
of recent spatia l development . Nonetheless, regions have received equally serious attention to that of
cities as these are the vast regions that are expected to absorb the various types of older, newer and
varied type of economic activities that their mother cities are s upposed to perform. Especially, the peri -
urban regions of megacities are undergoing massive transformations and require to have a balanced and
sustainable planning approach. Thus regional devel opment also becomes one of the most vital areas of
inquiry .The rural hinterlands too are experiencing major shifts in their space -economy responding to
these larger politico -economic and socio -cultural changes. At this backdrop, a deeper inquiry into
various spatial forms , their planning and management is vital. As rightly commented by UN -Habitat
DirectorDr. John Clos, Urban planning is an important source of development and a tool for reducing
inequality (2014). The revelations suggest that the proper approach to better urban planning is ought to
be holistic and inte grated with equal significance given to peri -urban and rural areas. Such approach
certainly provides guidelines and incentives for steering towards not only balanced pattern of regional
development but also a dignified social life . Such efforts can emerge in enhanced manner only through
academic and research contributions. The proposed course of Masters in Urban and Regional Planning
looks forward to propose an academic deliberation that will offer a comprehensi ve understanding vis -à-
vis regional and urban developmental issues.
Objectives

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The continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America are experiencing rapid pace of urbanization resulting in
the development of huge urban regions. In the highly urbanized regions the main c hallenge is to prevent
the developmental models generating negative externalities like congestion, segregation, inefficiency
and insecurity. Hence it is the time to address these issues that are acting as major hurdlesin the
sustainable development of human settlements.It can help in achieving urban, social and economic
development as well as contribute towards environmental sustainability.Through urban and regional
planning, not only short term remedies are offered but also long term solutions are provided.
The job of a planner i s to plan for the creation and management of the physical, economic and social
elements of the urban and rural environment s. A good planner would look into the equitabl e and just
distribution of infrastructural facilities like housing and transportation, h ealth and educational services,
air and water quality, sewage and waste disposal on the one hand as a part of essential civic services.
On the other, she/ he would also engage into long term planning deliberations like pattern of energy
utilization, urban disaster management, sustainability and so on. Finally, a good planner would be the
one who will take up specific issues witnessed in a planning region and design for a livable and inclusive
form of spatial development where the issues of pover ty, socio -spatial segregation , polarization and
Diasporas are taken into consideration. The planner can also contribute significantly in the appropriated
implementation of the newer perceptions of urban heritage and its preservation, u rban tourism,
gentrification, peri-urbanization, technological transience and city development . Community and area
based developments, economic and employment programmes are also some of the areas where the
planners can contribute significantly.
Keeping this in mind this course Urban and Regional Planning aims to cover
1) Developing a critical understanding towards the processes that are shaping various spatial
forms, their planning and development
2) Identifying planning problems and questions in Indian context and suggesting alternative
models of urban, rural, regional and community and area planning
3) Developing a critical understanding tow ards the contradictions in urban, rural and regional
space s and its implications in planning
4) Using primary and secondary data to address con temporary issues, planning problems and
questions
5) Application of latest technology (GIS, GPS, etc. )in urban and rural planning and
management
6) Critical perceptions about researc h problems and research design, learn what kinds of
problems planners address in day -to-day life, and recognize the role of theory in shaping
both questions and research design
7) Exploring on the issues related to governance and urban legislation, land manag ement, dignified
and sustainable housing, urban image, urban poverty reduction, social riskprevention,
adaptation and climate change mitigation, risk management for human settlements etc.
8) Designing and implementing a research project in response to a plann ing problem or
questions
This course intends to give students a real world experience with urban and regional planning.
By focusing on (a) selected area(s) the students will learn about the various aspects and scopes
of planning as well as various socio -economic and politico -cultural aspects of urban and rural
living. I ssues ranging from physical building and street design issues, environmental impacts,
analysis methods, legal framework, city government, politics, and community dynamics to

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psychological dimensions and physical dimensions to the limit of the city and urban living . The
course offers insights into regional development, rural planning and integrated regional
development. During the course the students will go for fie ld work along with activities in the
laboratory/studio as part of their assignments and all that finally culminate in the preparation
of a plan for the study area.
Essential Qualifications for Admissions
The course looks forward to have a lively mix of stu dents from diverse academic background and all
cross -section of the society. Graduate students from basic sciences, engineering, architecture and Post -
graduate students from Geography, social sciences, commerce and management can join this course.
In all , there will be 30 seats will be available and admission will be given as per the rules and regulations
laid down by the university of Mumbai from time to time.
Fee Structure :
The fee structure is as follow:
Sr. No. Semester Fees
1 Semester I & II 45000
2 Semester I II& IV 45000

Structure of the Course :
The course will act as a bridge for connecting citizens /civil society and decision makers as it
aims at enlightening and spreading the knowledge about the processes of planning and decision
making. The course aims at initiating interaction s between various stakeholders that are
involved in spatial planning. Especially, the dialogue between the government officials,
planners, citizensand the academician and researchers will be encouraged through the cou rse.
Through the course the students will exposed to the ongoing debates between experts,
professionals and researchers in the fields of urban planning and policy and henceforth they
themselves can be a participant and contribute and influence the planning process through
their researches. The students will gain the know -how of planning techniques and also how to
critically evaluate the existing planning techniques and processes with suggestions regarding
alternative methods.
An intensive interaction with classmates and the instructor will be encouraged to produce a
larger and meaningful content as the end product.
The structure of the course is based in the new pattern known as Choice Based Credit System
Syllabus from the cur rent academic year 2016 -17.

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Choice Based Credit System Syllabus, 201 8-19
• Total No. of Credits offered: 96
• Electives on offer in a particular academic year in each group could vary.
• Semester is 15 weeks duration. Credit is defined for a semester
Semes ter I : Cor e Courses (Four Courses)

Subject
Code
(326) Course Title Credits No. of Hours
101 History of Urban Space and Evolution of
City Forms 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
102 Basic Elements of Regional and Urban
Planning 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
103 Landuse and Landscape - Sociological and
Economic Perspectives 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
104 Environmental Planning 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
105 *Practical components
Tools and Techniques of Socio -Spatial
Analysis * 60+60+ 120
106 *Practical components
Basic tools in urban planning and
designing : Area Planning Lab * 60+60+ 120
Total 24 720

Semester II : Core Courses (Four Courses)

Subject
Code Course Title Credits No. of Hours
201 Spatial Dynamics of Regional and Urban
Development 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
202 Urban legislation and Governance 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
999203 Introduction to Municipal Budget and
Finance 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
204 Cities and City -regions : A New
Regionalism 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
205 *Practical components
Computer applications and Urban
Information System * 60+60+ 120
206 *Practical components
Project Management Tools * 60+60+ 120
Total 24 720


Semester III : (Two Optional Courses)

Subject Course Title Credits No. of Hours

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Code
301 Infrastructure Planning and Management 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
302 Public Policies and Citizens’ Engagement 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
303 1) The Experience of Urban
Regeneration – Indian Cities
2) Urban Housing and
Neighbourhood Planni ng
3) Smart Cities and Future Urbanism
4) Urban Transportation Systems
5) Rural resource development and
planning 4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
304 1) Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient
Cities – Global Perspectives
2) Climate Change and future
planning
3) Psychological Dimensions and City
Planning
4) Culture, Creativity and Planning
5) Integrated Rural Development
4+2*= 6 60+60+ 120
305 *Practical components
City Development Plan and Regional
Development Plan * 60+60+ 120
306 *Practical components
Geo-Informatics for Urban/Rural
management * 60+60+ 120
Total 24 720

Semester IV

24 credits will be offered for Semester Four.
Each student will have to do internship in fourth semester from various recognised institutions
and organisations. Each Student is expected to choose a research theme approved by the
department and submit a thesis. The thesis w ill be given a weightage of 18 credits. The
remaining six credits will be given for the End Exam (Viva -Voce). The general format and
guidelines shall be laid down by the department . The research work is expected to contain
original work.



Note : The practical component based on core and elective papers will be examined by external and
internal examiners.

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Semester I
101 :History of urban Space and Evolution of City Forms
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I :The origin and growth of cities (15)
1.1 Preconditions for Urban Growth – pre-industrial city -industrial revolution and its effects on
European urbanism - theories of urban origins
1.2 Early Urban hearths -the spread of urbanism and emergence of town planning - urban revival
in western Europe - emergence of medieval towns and early modern urbanism - new
urbanisation
1.3 Industrial cities and their forms -zoning and building regulations -residential segregation -
residential sorting by class -socio -spatial segregation - development of slums -housing for the
urban poor
1.4 Post -industrial urbanism - quartering of urban space - post -industrial /postmodern cities and
their changing form.
Unit 2 : Urbaniz ation and urban change (15)
2.1 Urbanization and economic growth - urbanization cycle - stages of differential urbanization -
law of primate city
2.2 Stages of urban development - reurbanisation, counterurbanisation, suburbanisation,
exurbanisation
2.3 Types of urbanised regions - city regions - conurbation - urban field - megalopolis –
ecumenopolis
2.4 Urban change - process and underlying factors - demographic change - economic changes -
functional types of cities

Unit 3 : Urban Land use (15)
3.1 Urban morphogenesis - urban landscape -land use - buildingforms -town plan - burgage cycle -
fringe belt
3.2 Ecological models – Central Business District - classical models - Burgess’s model - Hoyt’s
model - model of Harris and Ullman - modification of the classical mod els- criticisms
3.3 Political economic perspective - Harvey’s model –circuits of capital - over -accumulation crisis
and post -war subu rbaniz ation - actors in the production of built environment - growth coalitions
3.4 Sociological perspective - urban architectur e and urban meaning - social construction of
urban landscape

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UNIT 4 :Influence of key Architects and planners and evolution of New Towns (15)
4.1 Concept - garden cities - - neighbourhood unit - Ebenezer Howard, Barlow, Abercrombie,
Milton Keynes - private se ctor new towns - New towns in Europe and Third World -New
communities - New town in U.S. - green -field -brownfield debate - green belt towns -neo-
traditional planned developments - new urbanism -master planned communities
4.2 City beautiful movement ‐ Chicago, N ew Delhi, Canberra, Berlin (Albert Speer) - CIAM and
the Modern Movement, Bauhaus, Corbusier's Radiant City
4.3 Urban renewal and post‐war reconstruction, the picturesque city -the contribution of
Geddes, Mumford, Corbusier, DoxiadisandJane Jacobs
4.4 Emerg ing concepts - Global City, Inclusive City, Liveable City, Safe City, Future City - Impact
of new town movement on post -independent Indian city planning -beginning of modern
town planning in India
Reference :
1. Carter, H (1972): The Study of Urban Geography, Edward Arnold.
2. A. Latham, D. McCormack, K. McNamara, D. McNeill (2009): Key Concepts in
Geography, Sage.
3. Harvey, D.(1973): Social Justice and the City, Arnold
4. Abu -Lughod, J. and Hay, R. Jr. (1977): Third World Urbanisation, Maarouta Press.
5. Gugler. J. (ed.)(1988): The Urbanisation of the Third World, O.U.P
6. Sassen, S. (1991): The Global City, Princeton University Press.
7. Clarke, D. (1982): Urban Geog raphy: An Introductory Guide, Groom Helm.
8. Marcuse, P. and Kempen, R.V. (eds.),(2000): Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order,
Blackwell,
9. Short, J. R. (1996): The Urban Order, Basil Bleckwell.
10 Smith, N. (1996): The New Urban Frontier, Routledge
11. King A. D. (1990): Global Cities, Routledge.
12. Simmonds, R. and Hack, G. (2000): Global City Regions, Spon Press.
13. Markusen, A.R., et al. (1991): Second Tier Cities - Rapid Growth beyond the
Metropolis, University of Minnesota Press.
14. Allen J. Scott (ed.), (2001): Global City Regions, Trends, Theory & Policy, Oxford
University Press.
15. David Harvey (1985): The Urbanization of Capital, John Hopkins University Press.
16. Edward Soja (2000): Postmetropolis, Critical Studies of cities and Reg ions, Blackwell
Publisher Ltd.
17. G. P. Chapman, A.K. Dutt and R.W. Bradnock (ed.) (1999): Urban growth &
Development in Asia, Vol.2: Living in the Cities, Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
18. Pieterse E, (2008): City Futures, Confronting the Crisis of Urban Dev elopment, Zed
Books Ltd, London and New York.
19. Latham A, et.al. (2009): Key Concepts in Urban Geography, Sage, Los Angeles,
London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington.

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Semester I
102 Basic Elements of Regional and Urban Planning
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit 1 : Planning Theory (15)
1.1 Meaning of Planning – needs of planning –Rationales and primary functions of planning -
1.2 theories of planning - types and levels of Planning -Politicaland ideological basis of planning
in different contexts
1.3 Concept of Region – Physical, natural, functional, administrative and other types of region
1.4 Regional planning - ideas, process, prob lems, strategies and practices

Unit II :Human and Environmental Impact s on Regional Planning (15)
1.1 Human Impacts – urban decay – urban blight
1.2 Environmental Factors – environment protection and conservation - sustainable urban
infrastructure – assessment of microclimate – impacts of development on environment and
urban desig n
1.3 Environmental and other constraints of rural development
1.4 Concept of Sustainable Development – green cities and ecologically healthy cities

Unit III :Settlement Classification (15)
1.1 Definition of Urban and Rural areas - criteria for classification
1.2 Rurality and Urbanism
1.3 Rural –urban linkage
1.4 Levels of urban analysis – the neighbourhood –the city –the region – the national system of
cities – the world system of cities

UnitIV :Rural and Urban Planning and Policy (15)
1.1 Rural planning – rural communit y development strategies -Economic Environment and
policy initiatives for rural areas
1.2 Urban policy and planning – origin , development and goals of planning - nature of urban
policy - Neighbourhoods in planning, Birth and development of the neighbourhood i dea,
The Indian neighbourhood, Urban renewal and its aftermath -rise of advocacy planning - role
of NGOs in planning - Urban social movements
1.3 Post -war developments –masterplan to structure plan and beyond – urban modelling –
political influences and planning -nature of Urban programmes by international agencies
like World Bank, UNCHS etc.
1.4 Institutional arrangements of urban planning with special reference to India – edicts, laws –
New Towns and IDSMT, regional contexts of metropolitan plans, - Proposals of National
Commission on Urbanization

Reference :
1. Adair, A., J. Berry, W. S. McGreal , W. Deddis, and S. Hirst. 1999 “Evaluation of Investor
Behaviour in Urban Regeneration ”Urban Studies 36 (12): 2031 –45.

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2. Adams, D., and S. Tiesdell 2010. “Planners as Market Actors:Rethinking State -Market
Relations and Land and Property ”Planning Theory and Practice 11 (2): 187 –207.
3. Brenner, N., and N. Theodore, eds. 2002. Spaces of Neoliberalism:Urban Restructuring in
North America and Western Eur ope, Oxford: Blackwell.
4. Brenner, N., and N. Theodore. 2005. “Neoliberalism and the UrbanCondition.” City 9: 101 –
107.
5. Byrne, M. 2008. “Picture Puzzle Shows Princesshay Is Public —ButOnly up to a Point.” Express
and Echo (Exeter), January 30.
6. Callon, M. 1998. The Laws of Markets . Oxford: Blackwell.
7. Campbell, H. 2006. “Just Planning: The Art of Situated EthicalJudgment.” Journal of Planning
Education and Research 26(1): 92 –106.
8. Campbell, H. 2012a. “‘Planning Ethics’ and Rediscovering the Ideaof P lanning .” Planning
Theory 11 (4): 379 –99.
9. Campbell, H. 2012b. “Planning to Change the World: BetweenKnowledge and Action Lies
Synthesis.” Journal of PlanningEducation and Research 32 (2): 135 –46.
10. Campbell, H., and S. Fainstein. 2012. “Justice, Urban Politics andPolicy.” In Oxford Handbook
of Urban Politics , edited by K.Mossberger, S. E. Clarke, and P. John, pp. 545 –66. Oxford:Oxford
University Press.
11. Campbell, H., and J. Henneberry. 2005. “Contradictions in theOperation of the Planning
Obligation s System.” Journal ofProperty Research 22 (1): 37 –59.
12. Communities and Local Government. 2006. Barker Review of LandUse Planning: Final
Report —Recommendations . London:Stationery Office.
13. Innes, J. 1995. “Planning Theory’s Emerging Paradigm:Communicative Action and
Interactive Practice.” Journal ofPlanning Education and Research 14 (3): 183 –91.



Semester I

103 Land use and Landscape - Sociological and Economic Perspectives
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit 1 : City and Village as an organism (15)
1.1 Physical entity – built forms, architectural forms
1.2 social, economic entity and political entity
1.3 Objectives and scope of land use planning – compo sitional elements of landscape -
landscape design - General pattern of land use
1.4 Ecological models of the city – modifications – rural settlement morphology – land uses ,
Unit 2 :Reading Urban and Rural landscape (15)
2.1 Landscape as produc t of Culture

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2.2 landscape as product of and economy
2.3 Role of physical environment – environmental factors in landscape planning – landscape as
a product of combined impact of socio -economic practices and physical environment
2.4 Spaces – hierarchy and nature -open space –typologies of open space – primary functions -
designing of open space – environmental and economical benefits – impact on quality of life

Unit 3 : Political –Economy perspective
3.1 Interpretation of change in urban land use – underlying structural forces
3.2 City in advance d capitalist society – laws of capital accumulation – Harvey’s model of the
“circulation of the capital”
3.3 Major actors in production of the built environment – speculators – real estate agents,
financing institutions
3.4 Public space –types, uses and accessibility - Privatisation of public space

Unit 4 : Landscape production andPatterns of consumption (15)
4.1Socio -spatial dialectics - different patterns of consumption by different social groups -as
symbolic expressions of the values, social behavior, and individual actions of people -its link
in economic patterns, social behavior - technological innovations
4.2Regeneration and suburbanization - market segmentation and polarization of the retailing
landscape – residential segregation -ghetto, slum, gated community - ethnic segregation and
ethnic areas in the city.
4.3 Landscape zoning – landscape planning – natural process plans –social process plans – visual
plans – landform plans – waterspace plans - Habitat plans – Air plans
4.4 Landscape evaluation techniques – critical appraisal of historic examples of landscape plans
– landscape conservation – principles and techniques

Reference :
1. Carter, H (1972): The Study of Urban Geography, Edward Arnold.
2. A. Latham, D. McCormack, K. McNamara, D. McNeill (2009): Key Concepts in Geography,
Sage.
3. Campbell, H. 2006. “Just Planning: The Art of Situated EthicalJudgment.” Journal of Planning
Education and Research 26(1): 92 –106.
4. Campbell, H. 2012a. “‘Planning Ethics’ and Rediscovering the Ideaof Planning .” Planning
Theory 11 (4): 379 –99.
5. Campbell , H. 2012b. “Planning to Change the World: BetweenKnowledge and Action Lies
Synthesis.” Journal of PlanningEducation and Research 32 (2): 135 –46.
6. Pacione, M. 2005, Urban Geography, Routledge, New York
7. Communities and Local Government. 2006. Barker Review of LandUse Planning: Final
Report —Recommendations . London:Stationery Office.
8. Innes, J. 1995. “Planning Theory’s Emerging Paradigm:Communicative Action and Interactive
Practice.” Journal ofPlanning Education and Research 14 (3): 183 –91.

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Semester I
104: Environmental Planning
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Ecology and Ecosystem (15)
1.1 Evolution of Ecology – Man and ecosphere – components of environment - Urban and
rural ecosystem - approach – evolution - significance

1.2 fundamentals of ecosystem – its structure, function, food chain and food web , ecological
pyramids –
1.3 Energy flows – Bio-geochemical cycling - invasion, succession –regulatory forces
1.4 Natural resources – definition – types and classification – resource mobilization –
resource conservation –resource planning – traditional and contemporary approaches –
example from India and other countries
Unit II Ecological Balance and Environmental Degradation (15)
2.1 Ecological balance - impacts of advanced agriculture, industrialization, urbanization
2.2 Environmental degradation and pollution – heat island - pollution – types , sources
2.3 Climate change - global warming – ozone depletion –resource depletion -impacts on air,
water, land, human health, quality of life
2.4 Environmental hazards and disasters – causes, types - urban disasters and their impacts -
magnitude and extent
UnitII I : Environmental Planning, Environmental Impact Assessme nt and Environmental
Management System (15)
3.1 Environmental planning – types of planning – planning processes and tools –indicators of
sustainability in planning and development of settlements, natural resource utilization
3.2Environmental Impact Analysis - Evaluation and its parameters – procedural and
administrative aspects of EIA – methods and EIA matrices and networks – techniques of
assessment – appraisal
3.3 Environmental ethics, laws and management –principles of ecological approach t o urban
and regional planning –environmental design in the context of natural resource management –
public awareness and accountability

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3.4 Environmental management systems –cleaner production and cleaner technologies –
energy accounting and auditing – use of alternative sources – energy policies – norms and
standards of clean air and water - reuse and recycling
Unit IV : Environmental Policies and Programmes (15)
4.1Environmental movements – Stockholm conference – Earth Summit and Agenda 21 –
Commission on sustainable development - UN climate change conferences – Key United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - IPCC – Copenhagen Accord - Kyoto
protocol –various rounds of earth su mmit
4.2 Environment policies in India – British reign – modern India – Constitutional framework –
Legislative framework – EIA models – statutory and administrative model role of judiciary and
environmental justice – court doctrines and legislative develop ments
4.3 Urban Environmental Planning and Management a) Case Study 1 (world ) b) Case Study 2
(India)
4.4 Rural Environmental Planning and Management a) Case Study 1 (world ) b) Case Study 2 (
India )
References :
1. Adams, W.M. (2001): Green Develop ment: Environment and Sustainability in the
Third World, Routledge, London.
2. Agarwal, S.K. and Dubey, P.S. (2002): Environmental Controversies, A.P.H. Publishing
Corporations, New Delhi.
3. Basu, D.(ed.)(1995): Environment and Ecology – The Global Cha llenge, Printwell, Jaipur.
4. Calvert P.S. (1999): The South, the North and the Environment, Pinter, London and New York.
5. Ewusie, J.Y. (1980): ‘Elements of Tropical Ecology’, Heinemann Educational Books Inc. London.
6. Gupta, A. (1988): ‘Ecology and Development in the Third World’, Routledge, London.
7. Krishna, S. (1996): Environmental Politics – People’s Lives and Development Choices, Sage
Publications, New Delhi.
8. Mather, A.S. and Chapman, K. (1995): Environmental Resources, Longman Group Lim ited, U.K.
9. Odum, E.P. (1971): ‘Fundamentals of Ecology’, Third Edition, W.B.Saunders Company,
Philadelphia.
10. Smithson, P., Addison, K. and Atkinson, K. (2002): The Fundamentals of Physical Environment,
Routledge, London.
13. United Nations (1971): ‘ECE Symposium on Problems Relating to Environment’, U.N., New
York.
14. UNFPA (1992): ‘Population, Resources and Environment – The Critical Challenges’, United
Population Fund, London.
15. Her Majesty’s Treasury. 2007. The Eco nomics of Climate Change:The Stern Review .
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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16. Catney, P., and J. Henneberry. 2012. “(Not) Exercising Discretion:Environmental Planning
and the Politics of Blame -Avoidance.” Planning Theory and Practice 13 (4): 549 –68.


Semster I
105 : Tools and Techniques of Socio -spatial Analysis
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Data Collection, Data Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation (10)
Primary and Secondary sources of data, Survey design, Sampli ng; sample designs, size, types
Observational methods;Triangulation, Types of observation, controlled observation . Mail
questionnaire, personal and telephone interview; Sources of various data in India Census - A
brief introductionand nature of organization - Tabulation, Classification, Graphical methods -
Coding and its construction

Unit II :Simple Descriptive statistics (25)
Measurement, Univariate analysis - Frequency tables and graphs,Central Tendency, Dispersio n,
Distribution, Bivariate analysis - concepts of relationship; Nominal,ordinal and interval
measures of relationship – correlation, regression – linear and non -linear – multiple regression
and correlation – linear and non -linear – partial correlationand r egression
Probability and Sampling - Types of probability, Why Sample?, The Population, Sampling Unit
andFrame, Sample Size, Sample Design, Non -response errors Probability and normal
distribution - binomial andPoisson distribution
Time Series Data Analysi s - Time -series analysis; trend, variation, business cycles.
Index Numbers - Price index, Quantitative index, construction, tests, types, problems and
specificuses
Linear Programming - General introduction to Linear programming Methods for maximizing,
Methodsfor minimizing, Transport problem
Measures of Association and Hypothesis Testing - Percentage difference, Nominal and ordinal
measure, The Chi square Test, The Z -Score Test, The T -Test, Test for Proportion

Unit III Socio-spatial analysis and model s (25)
Demographic Analysis :Population Projection - Simplex population forecasting models - The
linearmodel, Exponential curves., modified exponential, Gompertz growth curve, comparative
method, ratiomethod.Composite population forecasting models - The cohort - survival model,
Migration model.
Economic Analysis :- Multipliers, Input -Output Analysis, Brief introduction to projection
techniques likeratio and econometric methods, .Analysis of labour force; sectoral shifts and
employment.

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Spatial Analysi s : Comparative analysis techniques - Specialization, Concentration and
Independenceassociation Gini coefficients and Lorenz curves , Spatial distribution analysis using
centrographytechn iques, Rent and Gradient models , Location equilibrium of the firm -
transport and labourorientation., Market and supply area analysis and thresholds, Pure gravity
model, Reilly's law andmapping of trade areas - constrained and unconstrained gravity model -
methods for parameterestimation.
Land Use and Transportation Models : General approaches to land use and transportation
Forecasting ,Basic sector land use models., Residential distribution models, Retail and local
service activity locationmodels.
Decision making Models : General introduction to various decisions making mo dels

References :
1. Yeates, M. (1974): An Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Human Geography, McGraw Hill
Book Co., New York.
2. Taylor, P. J. (1977): Quantitative Methods in Geography, Houghton and Miffin Co., Boston.
3. King, L. J. (1969): Stat istical Analysis in Geography, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey.
4. Hammond, R. and McCullagh, P.S. (1974): Quantitative Techniques in Geography: An
Introduction, Oxford University Press, London.
5. MahmoodAslam (1977): Statistical Metho ds in Geographical Studies, Rajesh Publications, New
Delhi.
6. Cole, J.P. and King, C.A.M.(1968): Quantitative Geography, John Wiley and Sons, London.
7. Berry, B.J.L. and Marble, D.F. (1968): Spatial Analysis – A reader in statistical Geography,
Prentic e Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
8. Levin, J. (1973): Elementary Statistics in Social Research, Harper and Row, New York.
9. Norcliff, G. B. (1982), Inferential Statistics for Geographers, Hutchinson, London.
10. Wilson A. G. and Bennet, R. J., (19 85), Mathematical Methods in Geography and Planning, John
Wiley and Sons, New York.
11. Cressie, N., (1991), Statistics for Spatial Data, John Wiley and sons, New York.
12. Wicox, P.R. (2003), Applying Contemporary Statistical Techniques, Academic Press,
Amsterdam
13. Crang M. and Cook, I. 2007, Doing Ethnographies, Sage.
14. Rogerson P.A. (2010), 3 rd Ed. Statistical Methods for Geography, a Students Guide, Sage.
15. V allentine G. Clifford N. (2010), Key Methods in Geography, Sage
16. Berry, B.J.L. and Marble, D.F. (1968): Spatial Analysis – A reader in statistical Geography,
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

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Semester I
106 Basic tools in urban planni ng and designing: Area Planning lab
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Perception Studies and mental mapping - Various components of existing urban and
suburban and rural areas (eg, housing typology and layouts, building and population densities,
streets, junctions, open spaces and its hierarchy, heritage buildings, etc) will be studied – will
include field visits followed by report writing.
Unit II :Area Planning Problem – any study area from the urban unit or rural unit can be
selected for
a) Data collection and analysis - Identification of Problems and Design Issues – to be addressed
for the planning of that area .
b) Conceptual Plan - Objectives and design parameters of the proposed development - Site
analysis - Linkages of the study area with the city - Physical layout plan indicating the broad
land use (residential, commercial, open spaces, industrial, institutional, etc).
c)Circulation plan Major infrastructure services - data tables and charts
d)Master Plan -Detailed land use - Detailed circulation plan with all levels of roads - Detailed
infrastructure plan - Block cost estimates - Options of implementation strategy
e) Final Plan —refining the master plan which is related to governing the physical character of
the plan -organisation al arrangements for development - supporting financial analysis.
Unit III :Rural Area Planning
Lifeand living of people in a village - study of a particular vi llage - primary survey - research
methodology - techniques of data collection. - identify the problems of rural life and evolve a
strategy for the overall short and long term development of the village.
a) Demograph ic featuresb) Employment and Asset Structure - Nature of employment, land
ownership, tenancy c) Agric ulture and Allied Activities – total area, landuse , Cropping pattern,
irrigation, finance, marketing, Agriculture -labour, etc d) Social and Cultural Issues – Caste
system, stratification, housing, settlement pattern, location of facilities, etc . e)Institutions –
Panchayat, MahilaMandal, Credit Co -operative, Bank, Schools, Medical, NGOs, etc . f)
Government Programmes –Rural Development programmes like IRDP, JRY, rural hous ing
schemes, road and drinking water related schemes g)Different schemes and its impacts h)

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Village Level Amenities and Linkage - List of existing amenities, distance for non -available
amenities, transportation and related issue s i) Energy utilization patt ern - Source of energy,
future prospect j)Peoples ’ perception ,recent changes and development in the village and
surrounding area.
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SEMESTER II
201 Spatial Dynamics of Regional and Urban Development
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I – Theories of Development and Underdevelopment (15)
1.1 Concepts of developmentand growth - Indicators of development –Ingredients of
development - Economic base of cities and regi ons, Basic concepts of economic resources -
Basic concepts in macro -economic and economic analysis - Economics of scale and external
economics.
1.2 Theories of development - Role of cities in regional and national development –Friedman
and Myrdal – Top-down a nd bottom -up approaches and concepts of integrated regional
development - classical and neo -classical theories of urban and regional development
1.3 Theories of under development - Dependency, imperialism – World system approach –
hierarchical placements and positioning of regions and spatial forms
1.4 Dichotomy of North -South, Rich -Poor -Third world urbanization – Metropolitan Dominance
and hegemony – patterns of urban and regional development and disparities

Unit II : Capital, city and development (15)
2.1 Critical links between capital and cities –feudal, industrial and financial capital -Theoretical
Foundations - Historical, Sociological and Spatial Roots -Perspectives on Cities -
2.2Lefebvre and Production of Space – Dialectics of urban space –Neo-Marxists and cultural
theorists including Castells, Harvey, Logan, Molotch and Zukin - Cities of Global North and
Global South
2.3 The city and hinterland interconnections – Jefferson’s perspective on the interrelationship
between city and region – role o f capital in the regional development - Raymond Williams
and the dialectics of The Country and The city – the changing nature between the city and
the country – experience of Global North and Global South
2.4 Neoliberalism and Financialisation of capital – flexibalisation of capital investments and
flows - neoliberal policies and newer spatial imaginations - networked global economy -
remaking of future cities and regions

Unit III - The Urban Divide (15)
3.1 cities as places and spaces of inequali ties - Sociological theories of conflict v solidarity -
Theoretical perspectives of Marx, Weber and Durkheim inequalities and social conflicts

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3.2 Socio -spatial segregation –theories of social segregation – experiences of cities in global
south –urban pov erty and living in ghettos - urban informality and inequality
3.3Politics of place and space – spatial identities and politics of accessibility –class conflicts -
claims and counterclaims over the urban space
3.4 Neoliberal urban planning – urban restructu ring and renewal – gentrification - shifting
attitudes towards cities and city -regions – Global city theory –supportive and countering
perspectives and its impact on planning visions – Global City -Regions

Unit IV - Challenging the System - Urban Social Mov ements and Inclusive Development (15)
4.1 History of the labor movement, civil rights movement and environmental justice
movements – its role in shaping urban landforms – resultant city forms
4.2 Right to the city – gender and city - women’s movement –Children an d public spaces –
differentially abled people and city planning - Benjamin and occupancy urbanism –new
urban social movements -use insurgent practices to challenge place based inequalities
4.3 City -regions – city as an exploitative reg ime for its region - people’s movements and
resistances – examples from Global South
4.4 Neoliberal policies - participatory approach – stakeholders - citizens’ forum and pressure
groups - The changing metropolis - Case studies

References:

1.Harvey, D. (1982): The Limits to Capital, Basil Blackwell.
2. Johnston, R.J. and Tayior, P.J. (eds)(1986):A World in Crisis, Basil Blackwell.
3. Forbes, O.K. (1984): The Geography of Underdevelopment, The Johns Hopkins
University Press
4. Brewer, A. (1 980):Marxist Theories of Imperialism, Routledge and Kegan Paul.
5. Pacione, M. (1988): Geography of the Third World, Routledge.
6. Coates, B. E.,Johnston, R. J. and Knox, P.L., (1977): Geography and inequality,
Oxford University Press.
7. Taylor, M. J. and Thirst, N. J., (1981): The Geography of Multinational
Corporations, Vol.I and II, Croom Helm.
8. Banerjee -Guha, S., (1997):Spatial Dynamics of International Capital, Orient Longman.
9. Armstrong, W. and McGee, T.G., (1985): Theatres of Accumulation ,
Methuen.
10. Frank,A.G., (1978):Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment,
The MacMillan Press, London.
11. Mather, A.S. and Chapman, K.,(1995):Environmental Resources, Longman Scientific
and Technical.
12. Potter, R.B., Binns, T, Elliott, J.A. a nd Smith, D., (1999): Geographies of Development,
Longman.
13. AmitBhaduri,(2006): ‘Development with dignity A case for full employment’,
National book trust of India.
14. Andre Gunder Frank, (1975): ‘On capitalist Underdevelopment’, Oxford University
Press.
15. Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin (ed.) (1997): ‘Globalization and South’,
Macmillan Press Ltd.

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16. Desai Vandana and Potter B. Robert, (eds.) (2011): ‘The Companion to Development
Studies’, AHodder – Viva Edition, London.
17. Power Marcus, (2003): ‘Rethinking Development geographies’, Routledge, London.
18. Summer Banks, Developmental Geography,(2010): Apple Academic press.
19. Stuart Corbridge,1995, Development Studies A Reader,Arnold.
20. George Ritzer, 2010: Globalization – A Basic Te xt, Wiley -Blackwell
21. R.J. Johnston, Peter J. Taylor and Michael J. Watts, (eds.) (2002): Geographies of
Global Change, Blackwell Publishing


Semester II
202 :Urban legislation and Governance
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120


Unit I – Introduction to basic concepts (15)
1.1 Evolution of Planning legislation in India - An overview of legal tools connected with urban
planning and development, Town and country planning act
1.2 Economic concept of land - economic principles of land use - economic rent land use
pattern and land values - location economics -financial balance sheet of land development –
Land and its different uses
1.3 Registration of land and land record procedure - factors influencing land va lue - assessment
and prediction of land value and its prices - economics of Town Planning decisions effects of
legislation on land development and urban land economics.
1.4 Institutions and Urban planning - Typology of institutions - their role, powers and
significance (legal, political, social, cultural and economic institutions), formal and informal
institutions – their interface, conflicts, classified work, and their effectiveness in planning:
Analysing the institutions: Methods, process and evaluation.

Unit II – Urban Legislation and Land regulations (15)
2.1 Introduction to laws, basic concepts - law, legislation, ordinance bill, act, regulations and
bye-laws - sources of law (i.e. custom, legislation and precedent) - Judiciary, legislature and
executive powers and rule of law - its relationship to urban planning –Hierarchical System of
governance and planning – Central, State and Urban Local Bodies – Consequences vis -à-vis
urban planning
2.2 Legislation related to use and control of land -Land Acqu isition Act of1894 –Interpretation
of LAA in recent times - Betterment charges and compensation provisions in various
planning laws; and judicial precedents - Valuation of real estate - concept of ownership -
rights and associated features
2.3 Legislation c ontrolling use of land parcels like non -agricultural permissions, building
permission - use of permissions, etc. Significance of land development control objectives
and legal tools
2.4 Zoning law relating to slum clearance, housing, landscape and traffic. Approach for
formulating rules and bye -lawsPolicies, laws, acts pertaining to urban land, ceiling on urban

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land and property, Urban land (ceiling andregulations) act, 1976 - differences in the
interpretation across the states and important provision, probl ems.

Unit III :Housing and Planning regulations and laws (15)
3.1 Housing related legislation – residential cooperative housing societies - other forms like
non-trading corporations -Slums related legislation –commonalities and variations across
the India n states - Important sections - their implications - Planning law and the poor
3.2Legislation on related to property transactions (Transfer of Property Act, Income Tax related,
etc.) - India and overview of framework of rules regulations and provisions mad e in the ITPI
chapter –Detailed understanding of Urban Planning andDevelopment Authorities Acts –
Procedures and methodology of preparation and implementation ofregional plans.
3.3Legislation relating to urban conservation and restoration, heritage, archi tecture -
archaeological sites –andremains of National importance.
3.4 Environmental Laws and Urban Planning - National Environmental Policy Act Pollution
Control Acts - Air, Water and EP Acts - A critical appraisal – Urban Environment and related
regulatio ns – wetlands, CRZ, etc – Sustainable Urban development – Problems and Prospects

Unit IV :Recent Trends in Urban Planning and Legislation (15)
4.1 Characteristics and features of neoliberal urban planning – Impact on urban legislation –
detailed account of amendments and modifications - Neoliberal urban governance – forms
and structures – modus operandi - its explicit implications
4.2 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments - environment and the modified role and
functions of local bodies, local authorities, district - authorities and state level agencies -
The institutional frame and mechanism for urban governance as envisaged in 73rd and 74th
CAA -Transfer of Power from Centre to State and State to Local government - role of the
existingplanning and developm ent agencies in various states - role of various institutions in
the process of governance and access to government by various stakeholders
4.3 Redefined role of other Stakeholders - NGOs, Private Sector, Scientific Network and
international institutions –Role of donor agencies - Advanced Locality Management,
Resident Welfare Associations, elite groups, industrial and commerce chambers as pressure
groups – their role in governance system. Role of People’s participation in planning process
- inclusion and exclu sion in urban governance - E- Governance and Grievances Redressal
system.
4.4 Impact of amendments on various sections of urban economy and Society - CaseStudies

Reference :
1. Carrithers, D. F., and D. Peterson. 2006. “Conflicting Views of Marketsand Economic Justice.”
Journal of Business Ethics 69:373 –87.
2. Christensen, K. 1985. “Copi ng with Uncertainty in Planning ”Journal of the American planning
Association 51 (1): 63 –73.
3. Commission of the European Community. 1999. European SpatialDevelopment Framework
(ESDP) —Towards Balancedand Sustainable Development of the Territory of the EU .

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Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the EuropeanCommunities.
4. Mäntysalo, R., and I. Saglie. 2010. “Private Influence PrecedingPublic Involvement: Strategies
for Legitimizing PreliminaryPartnership Arrangements in Urban Housing Planning inNorway and
Finland.” Planning Theory and Practice 11 (3):317 –38.
5. Marcuse, P., J. Connolly, I. O livo Magana, J. Novy, C. Potter, andJ. Steil, eds. 2009. Searching
for the Just City . New York:Routledge.
6. Marquand, D. 2004. Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out ofCitizenship . Cambridge: Polity
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7. McMaster, R. 2002. “The Analysis of Welfare State Reform: Whythe ‘Quasi -markets’
Narrative Is Descriptively Inadequate andMisleading.” Journal of Economic Issues 36 (2): 769 –
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8. Miller, M. 1998. Princesshay Exeter: Concept, Development andContext . Report
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10. Osborne, D., and T. Gaebler. 1992. Reinventing Government . NewYork: Plume.
11. Peck, J. 2003. “Geography and Public Policy: Mapping the PenalState.” Progress in Human
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12. Peck, J., N. Theodore, and N. Brenner. 2010. “Postneoliberalismand Its Malcontents.”
Antipode 41 (1): 94 –116.
13. Sager, T. 2013. Reviving Critical Planning Theory: Dealing withPressure, Neo -liberalism and
Responsibility in Communicativ ePlanning . Routledge: Abingdon.
14. Sandel, M. 2009. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? London:
Allen Lane.


Semester II
203 : Introduction to municipal Budget and Finance
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120


Unit I : Municipal Tax System (15)
1.1 Evolution of Municipality tax syste m – basic structure and elements
1.2 Variations in the tax related regulations and norms as per the municipal categories -
Municipal tax structure for resource mobilization
1.3 Main sources of revenue for local authorities: p ropertytax, issues and imperatives -
variations
1.4 Municipal councils and municipal corporations – case studies

Unit II : Financial Planning (15)
2.1 Financial Planning and techniques - Public finance and resour ce mobilization: Some basic
principles

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2.2 Review of centre, state and local financial relationships – fiscal and financial freedoms -
limitations – role of finance commission - procedures and method of financing
2.3Review of accounting practic es, budgetary procedures for capital works - Policies and
procedure for raising financial resources
2.4 Techniques of monitoring the development of specific works - standard oriented costs
control, turnkey system, vertical production method, inventory co st control techniques, and
unified status, index techniques -

Unit III : Municipal Budget (15)
3.1 Annual operating budget - capital budget - the enterprise or utilities budget - Revenues
local government budgets - own source, external, debt - Tax and non -tax sources of revenues
3.2 Income and expenditure categories - Classification of budgets and accounts of
municipalities - budget cycle - institutional responsibility for creating a data base on the
finances of municipalities.
3.3 Municipal Bu dgeting and Financial Reporting System: An Overview - Municipal Budget
Classification and Budget Formats - The Finances of Municipalities A Statistical Profile -
Municipal Finance Data System
3.4 Key Financial indicators - Conditions for alternation and ap proval of Municipal Budgets
Unit IV Impact of Financial Reforms on Urban Finance (15)
4.1Property Tax Reforms, Accounting Reforms - Credit Rating of Bonds - Pooled Financing of
projects: Standards and regulations.
4.2 Financial capital – capital and f inancial reforms – privatization, liberalization and structural
reforms - foreign direct investments
4.3 Mandate for Public Private Partnership model of investments, Contract Architecture, Public
Private Partnership Design and execution – sharing of respo nsibilities and accountabilities –
legal aspects
4.4 Critical evaluation of policy initiatives like JNNURM, AMRUT, Smart City paradigm – impact
on municipal finance
References:
1. Bagchi, S (2000): Financial Implications of Decentralisation: Issues Concern ing Resource
Mobilisation by Urban Local Bodies; ArthVijnana Vol.XLII; No.4.
2. Bagchi, S (2001): Financing Capital Investments in Urban Infrastructure: Constraints in
AccessingCapital Investments in Urban Basic Services; Economic and Political Weekly ;
Vol.XXXVI; No.4.
3. Bagchi, S (2001): Private Provision of Public Utilities: Some Issues and Evidences from Indian
Waterand Sanitation Sector; Nagarlok ; Vol.XXXIII; No.3.
4. Bahl, Roy. W (1998): Implementation Rules for Fiscal Decentralisation; Paper prese nted at
theInternational Seminar on Land Policy and Reform; Taiwan Institute of Land Policy.
5. Bahl, R.W and J.F.Linn (1992). Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries, A World Bank
Book,OUP Publication, New York.

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6. Bennet, R (1994): “An Overview of D evelopment in Decentralisation” in Robert Bennet (ed.)
LocalGovernment and Market Decentralisation: Experiences in Industrial, Developing and
Former EasternBlock Countries; United University Press, Tokyo, New York and Paris.
7. Blore, I.C (1991): Calcutta: Two Small Municipalities in a Large Metropolis; Institute of Local
Government Studies; University of Birmingham.

8. Aguilar L. (2015), Statement on Making the Municipal Securities Market More Transparent,
Liquid, and Fair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Co mmission
9. Asian Development Bank (2003), Local Government Finance and Bond Markets, Edited by
Yun-
Hwan Kim
10. CARE Ratings (2012), Urban Local Bodies and potential for Municipal Bond Market
11. Chakrabarti, M. (2014), Municipal Bond Market in India, In dian Journal of Applied Research,
Volume 4, Issue 3, ISSN - 2249 -555X
12. Government of India (2003), Policy Option Paper for Framing Municipal Law in India,
Ministryof Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Part IV: Municipal Revenue, Sources of
Interna lRevenue
13. Government of India (2006a), Population Projections for India and States 2001 -2026, Report
ofthe Technical Group on Population Projections constituted by the National Commission on
Population, Census of India 2001
14. Government of India (2006 b), Training Module on Audit of Urban Local Bodies, Comptroller
&Auditor General of India, Regional Training Institute, Kolkata
15. Government of India (2007), National Municipal Accounting Training Manual for Elected
Representatives and Top Management, Mi nistry of Urban Development, Supported by Office of
The Comptroller & Auditor General of India, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and
USAID (FIRE -D) Project.
16. Government of India (2009), Thirteenth Finance Commission (2010 –2015), Finance
Commis sion, India.
17. Government of India (2010), Report of the Committee on Slum Statistics/Census, Ministry of
Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, National Buildings Organisation.
18. Government of India (2011), Report on Indian Urban Infrastructure and Se rvices, The High
Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) for Estimating the Investment Requirements for Urban
Infrastructure Services.
19. Government of India (2012), Report of the Sub -Committee on Financing Urban
Infrastructure in
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Development.
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23. National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP, 2011), Municipal Finance Matters:
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Reddy, Y.V. (2015), Fourteenth Finance Commission, Continuity, Change and Way Forward,
Economic & Political Weekly, May 23, 2015 Vol L no. 21.
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Research Gr oup, Department of Economic Analysis and Policy, Mumbai.

Semster II
204 : Cities and City -regions : A New Regionalism
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Evolution of City and Region interrelationship (15)
1.1 The interrelationship between regions and cities – backward and forward linkages and
reciprocity – various theoretical perspectives
1.2 Evolution ofconcept of metropolitan region – composition of metropolitan region –
functional and positional hierarchy – historical background of development
1.3 Metropolitan regional organisation and planning – dispersal and decentralisation policies –
indust rial, population dispersal and planning regional growth
1.4 Planning of early metropolitan regions – case studies from Western and Eastern countries

Unit II : Evolution of Metropolitan Regions in India (15)
2.1 Evolution of metropolitan regions in Indi a – various processes and forces influencing the
metropolitan development - historical background of colonization and regional imbalance
2.2 Rhetoric of ‘overurbanisation’ - Metropolitan regional development and planning in India -
Five Year Plans and urb an and regional planning – establishment of various metropolitan
regional development agencies (1970s & 1980s)
2.3 Establishment of metropolitan regional planning agencies – influence of various
metropolitan regional plans – twin towns policy of London – Industrial Location Policy of
South Korea – Finger Plan of Copenhagen
2.4 First metropolitan regional development plans - Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta metropolitan
regional development plans – important features and policy initiatives undertaken

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Unit III : Critical Evaluation of Regional Development Policies (15)
3.1 Impact of regional plans on urban and regional planning
3.2 Schemes for development of small and medium cities – successes and failures – impact on
regional development
3.3 Impact of regio nal plans on the inner and outer peripheries – influence of economy, society
and culture – status of infrastructure and other services – the dichotomy - city vs.
peripheries - Critical evaluation of regional development policies – Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta
3.4 Seventh Five Year Plan and sifting perspectives on cities and regions – globalization,
liberalization and changing planning visions

Unit IV : Emergence of Global City -Regions (15)
4.1 Transformed role of cities – cities as nodes in global econo my
4.2 making of global/ globalizing cities – transformation of city -regions into global city -regions
4.3 The draft regional plans – vision documents – Status of inner and outer peripheries
4.4 Transformations in the space -economy of inner and outer peripheries – contradictions and
stress – Future planning
Reference :
1. Abdul Razak, M. (2004) Mobility patterns andstrategies used for spatial access to work of the
squatter households in the peri-urban Delhi,India. Paper presented at the International
Workshop on ‘Peri -urban Dynamics’, NationalUniversity of Singapore, December.
2. Abu-Lughod, J. L. (1999) New York, Chicago, LosAngeles: America’s Global Cities.
Minneapolis,MN: University of Min nesota Press.
3. AIILSG (All India Institute of Local Self Government)(2004) Transforming Mumbai into a
world class city. AIILSG, Mumbai.
4. Banerjee -Guha, S. (1997) Spatial Dynamics ofInternational Capital. Hyderabad: Orient
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5. Banerjee -Guha, S. (2002a) Metropolitan dominanceand regional disparity in India:
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6. Banerjee -Guha, S. (2002b) S hifting cities: urbanrestructuring in Mumbai, Economic and
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7. Banerjee -Guha, S. (2008) Space relations ofglobal capital and significance of new economic
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11. D’Monte, D. (2002) Ripping the Fabric: TheDecline of Mumbai and Its Mills. New Delhi:
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14. Dupont, V. (2005) Peri -urban dynamics: population,habitat and environment on the
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21. McGee, T. G. (1971) The Urbanization Process inthe Third World. London: Bell and John.
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for Bombay metropolitan regi on 1996 –2011.MMRDA, Mumbai.
23. Myrdal, G. (1966) Economic Theory and UnderdevelopedRegions. London: Charles
Duckworth& Co.
24. Oliveal, S. (2005) Peri -urbanisation in TamilNadu: a quantitative approach. Occasional
Paper No. 15, Centre de Sciences Humaines ,New Delhi.
25. Parnell, S. (1997) Politics of transformation:defining the city strategy in Johannesburg,
in: K. Segbers (Ed.) The Making of GlobalCity Regions: Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay,
Sa˜o Paulo, and Shanghai, pp. 139 –168. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
26. Patnaik, U. (2007) Neoliberalism and rural povertyin India, Economic & Political Weekly,
42(30), 28 July.
27. Petrella, R. (1995) A global agora vs. gated city -regions,New Perspectives Quarterly, Winter,
pp. 21 –22.
28. Robinson, J. (2002) Global and world cities: aview from off the map, International Journal of

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Urban and Regional Research, 26, pp. 531 –554.
29. Sassen, S. (1991) The Global City: New York,London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press.
30. Scott, A. J. (2001) Global City -regions: Trends,Theory, Policy. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
31. Segbers, K. (Ed.) The Making of Global CityRegions: Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, Sa˜o
Paulo, and Shanghai. Baltimore, MD: JohnsHopkins University Press.

Semester II
205 : Computer Applications and Urban Information System
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Basic Cartography
Map Elements – Scale, Direction, measurements - Design as a plan of Execution - goals of
cartographic D esign – clarity, order, balance, contrast, unity and harmony
Formulating the plan - Purpose of the map, topic, format, scale, audience, production and
Reproduction of the map
Cartographic Design Principals – legibility, visual contrast, figure -ground contrast, hierarchical
organisation
Unit II : Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Concept of remote sensing - aerial & satellite remote sensing - principles of aerial remote
sensing - Aerial photo -interpretation – photogrammetry, stereovision, measurementof
heights/depths by relief displac ement and parallax displacement - principles ofsatellite
remote sensing, spatial, spectral, temporal resolutions - applications in planning ,
population estimation, identification of squatter/unauthorized areas, sources of
pollution, vegetation, solid waste management, etc.
Unit III : Introduction to the basic concept s of GIS
Introduction to basic ArcGIS functions - Databases for GIS - concep ts, error modeling
anddata uncertainty, decision making through GIS - GIS Data Structures - Querying,
selecting, joining, and calculating data - Census Data for GIS & GIS data and analysis for
planning and public policy - Mapping Data & Data acquisition a nd preparation - Creating and
Editing GIS data, Geocoding - vector data structure and algorithms, rasterdata structure
and algorithms -Georeferencing - Scale, Projection and Coordinate Systems -Spatial data
processing - National Urban Informationsystem
Unit IV : Analysis with GIS
Spatial distribution of select elements like population - Change detection using vector and
raster data – site suitability analysis using GIS - Location -Allocation Problems – spatial
distribution of basic infrastructural facili ties – critical evaluation – practical solutions

References :
1. Robinson, A. H. and Others (1995): Elements of Cartography, VI Edition, John Wiley & Sons,
New York.

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2. Anson, R. W. and Ormeling, F. J., (Ed.) (1993): Basic Cartography for Students and
Technicians, Vol.I, International Cartographic Association and Elseiver Applied Science
Publishers, London.
3. Dickinson, G. C. (1977) Statistical Mapping and the Presentation of Statistics, Edward Arnold
Ltd., London.
4. Monkhouse, F. J. and H. R. Wilkinso n, (1971): Maps and Diagrams, Methuen & Co. Ltd.,
London.
5. Agrawal, N.K.(2006), Essentials of GPS (Second Edition), Book Selection Centre, Hyderabad
6. American Society of Photogrammetry (1983): Manual of Remote Sensing, ASP
PalisChurch,V.A.
7. Barrett, E.G. and Curtis, L.F. (1992): Fundamentals of Remote Sensing in Air Photo -
interpretation, McMillan, New York. 7.
8. Bernhardsen, Tor (2002): Geographical Information Systems: An Introduction, Third Edition,
John Wiiey& Sons, Inc., New York.
9. Burrough, Peter A and McDonnell, R.A. (1998): Principles of Geographical Information
Systems, Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
10. Campbell. J. (1989): Introduction to Remote Sensing, Guilford, New York.
11. Clarke, Keith C. (1998): Getting Started wit h Geographic Information Systems, Prentice -Hall
Series in Geogl. Info. Science, Prentice -Hall, Inc. N.J.
12. Curran, Paul, J, (1988): Principles of Remote Sensing, Longman, London.
13. Heywood, I.et al (2002): An Introduction to Geological Systems, Pears on Education Limited,
New Delhi.
10. Iliffe, J.C (2006), Datums and Map Projections for Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying,
Whittles Publishing, New York.
11. Jonson. R. J. (2003): Remote Sensing of the Environment -An Earth Resources Perspective,
Pearso n Education Series in Geographical Information Science, Keith C. Clarke (Series editor)
Pearson Educators Private Limited. (Singapore), New Delhi.


Semester II
206 Project Management Tools
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total ho urs 120

Unit I : Basic Concepts in Project Management (15)
Project – Project life cycle – scale, scope and nature of the project – various elements in
project planning – finance – economics – institutional arrangements – feasibility report
Unit II : Technical and Financial Appraisal (15)
Materials required – infrastructure – technical feasibility - factors of production –
scheduling and phased installation of the project
Financial planning and fund raising – techniques of financial appraisal - financial
sustainability – risks and viability – Internal Rate of Return and sensitivity analysis
Unit III - Economic and Social Appraisal (15)

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Effective pricing – market distortions – capital investments and per capita returns – risk
calculations – Methods of Risk calculation and apprehension – Capital Asset Pricing
Model – Decision Tree Analysis and other models – Economic Rate of Returns
Social dimensions and impact assessment – calculating social cost – cost of
rehabilitation and redev elopment - Use of social assessment methods: PRA, SARAR,
Social -Cost -Benefit Analysis, UNIDO and Returns (SRR)
Unit IV - Environmental and Institutional Appraisal (15)
Identifying the impact on various environmental elements - environmental costs –
Environmental Impact Assessment - replacement cost, bequest pricing, hedonic pricing,
contingent valuation, land values, preventive/mitigation expenses, benefit transfers,
productivity changes.
Capacity Enhancement Need Assessment (CENA) - various aspects of institutional
appraisal – Policies and legality
References :
1. "Introduction to Project Management
Skills". http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_PPM.htm . Last update time
unknown. Acce ssed Nov. 2, 2002.
2. The Numbers Group. "Project
Management". http://www.snc.edu/socsci/chair/333/numbers.html . Last update time
unknown. Accessed Nov. 4, 2002.
3. "What is Project
Management?". http://www.esi_intl.com/Public/projectmanagement/whypm.asp . Last
update time unknown. Accessed Nov. 4, 2002.
4. "Project Management
Techniques". http://www.tifb.state.tx.us/Handbooks/Project_Management.htm . Last
update time unknown. Accessed Nov. 4, 2002.
5. "Project Management Tools". http://www.dbm.sta te.md.us/mdplan/apdx -bt.htm . Last
update time unknown. Accessed Nov. 6, 2002.
6. Georgia State University - CIS 330. "Project
Management". http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~dtruex/ courses/cis330/cis330PDF/wk7/ProjMg
tp.pdf . Last update time unknown. Accessed Nov. 6, 2002.
7. NetMBA. "PERT". http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/pert . Last update time
unknown. Accessed Nov. 6, 2002.
8. The Gantt Group. "Using Gantt Charts". http://204.144.189.70/index.htm . Last update
time unknown. Accessed Nov. 6, 2002.
9. Trepper, Charles H. "A Project Management
Primer". http://www.aisc.com/us/lang_en/press_room/in_the_news/adtMag_August01
.pdf. Last update August 2000. Accessed Nov. 6, 2002.
10. Vanhooren,Axel “ Project Management”,
http://itporojmngt.8m.net/projman/pm_what.html , Acc essed Oct.31, 2002

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11. Adams, John R. "Principles of Project Management". (c)1997 by the Project
Management Institute.
12. Craig, H Kent. "PM 101: Assess Yo ur Aptitude, Mindset, Potential " Contractor . Sep. 2002.
Vol. 49. Issue 9.
13. Crawford, J Kent; Pennypacker, James S. "Put an End to Project Management". Optimize .
Oct. 2002. Pages 73 -78.
14. Friedlein, A shley. "Web Project Management", (c)2001 by the Presentation Company
Limited. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
15. Hartman, Francis; Ashrafi, Rafi A. "Project Management in the Information Systems and
Information Technologies Industries." Project Management Journal . Sep 2002. Vol. 33.
Issue 3. Pages 5 -15.
16. Hoffer, Jeffrey A; George, Joey F; Valacich, Joseph S. "Modern Systems Analysis &
Design". (c)2002 by Pearson Education, Inc. Prentice Hall.
17. Kioppenborg, Timothy J; Opfer, Warren A. "The Current State of Project Management
Research: Trends, Interpretations, and Predictions. " Project Management Journal . June
2002. Vol. 33. Issue 2. Pages 5 -18.
18. Payne, John & Shirley. "Management Basics". (c)1998 by the Adams Media Corporation.
19. Quick, James Aaron; New, Cheryl Carter. "Grant Winner's Toolkit: Proj ect Management
and Evaluation", (c)2000 by Cheryl Carter New and James Aaron Quick. Published by
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
20. Schimmoller, Brian K. "The Changing Face of Project Management." Power Engineering .
May 2001. Vol. 105. Issue 5. Pages 28 -30.

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SEMESTER III
301 : Infrastructure Planning and Management
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Infrastructure and Urban Development (15)
1.1 Role of infrastructure in development - Elements of Infrastructure - Physical, Social, Utilities
and services
1.2 Basic definitions, concepts, significance and importance - required for provision and
planning of networks and services –
1.3 Collection and compi lation of data – Use of data for infrastructure planning and
organization of services –

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1.4 municipal set ups - associated functions - responsibilities and rights - Land requirements –
acquisitions and rehabilitation – community involvement

Unit II : Basic Infrastructure and Services (15)
2.1 Water – sources, treatment and storage, transportation and distribution and quality -
Establishing networks, Water budget and assessment - Institutional arrangements -
Planning water supply - water system design choic es of alternatives Issues related to the
choice of centralized city water supply versus decentralized systems – Water accessibility,
affordability and availability – challenges to meet increased demands – creation of
benchmarks of water demand, per capita water consumption and supply - recent
amendments – water conservation and sustainable development
2.2 Power – Sources of power procurement, distribution networks and grids, demand
assessment - creation of benchmarks of energy demands, per capita energy consum ption
and supply – Pricing and just distribution – Newer trends in urban energy – renewable
energy
2.3 Sanitation and sewerage – Sanitary and sewerage system – features – issues related with
generation, collection and management - DEWATS, institutional arrang ements, planning
provisions and management issues - Basic Design Parameters and Appurtenances -
Sanitation technologies, their relevance to incremental growth of urban areas. Low cost
sanitation technologies and concepts as related to Indian and third worl d country contexts -
Sewage Treatment Plant and Water Treatment Plant (Components, Planning
Considerations, Basic Design Parameters).
2.4 Storm water – Spatial pattern of distribution of precipitation and interpretation –
Physiographic, altitudinal features an d physical surface characteristic features – planning of
drainage system - provisions and management issues - Basic Design Parameters and
Appurtenances

Unit III : Basic Infrastructure and services (15)
3.1 Waste Generation – processing of waste – from o rigin to disposal – financial provisions –
budgetary provisions - municipal act – waste management – environmental concerns –
community participation – role of other agencies
3.2 Fire protection and Planning - norms and standards - Prevention fire requirements, fire
classification of construction, fire fighting – building architecture and design – road
accessibility and neighbourhood mapping
3.3 Transportation - types of transport systems - evolution of various types of transport modes
– complimentarit y between various types of transport modes - hierarchy, capacity and
geometric design -elements of roads and intersections - basic principles of transport and
infrastructure design – transport cycle, concept of accessibility – characteristic features of
traffic – elements of urban transport planning process
3.4Other Infrastructure:
Concepts and theories for design and operation of electricity networks, power generation
(conventionaland non -conventional) communication networks like telephone facilities, WLL ,
cable TV, Fibre optic andother broadband communications networks, etc.

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Unit IV : Social Infrastructure (15)
4.1 Educational facilities – type, location, availability and accessibility
4.2 Health facilities – Hierarchy, type, affordability and ac cessibility
4.3 Technology - technological choices - problems of operation, maintenance and
implementation
4.4 The concept of asset management – significance in planning

References:
1. Anas, A., R. Arnott, K. Small (1998). ‘Urban Spatial Structure,’ Journal of Economic Literature ,
36, pp. 1426 –64.
2. Auzins, Armands (2004). ‘Institutional Arrangements: A Gate TowardsSustainable Land Use’,
Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real EstateResearch , 1(1), pp. 57 –71.
3. BDA (2005). Bangalore Master Plan 2015 , Bangalore DevelopmentAuthority and SCE –
CREOCEAN (India) Private Ltd., Bangalore.
4. CPR (2001). The Future of Urbanization, Spread and Shape in SelectedStates , Centre for Policy
Research, New Delhi
5. D’Monte, Darryl (2002). Ripping the Fabric: The Decline of Mumbaiand its Mills , Oxford
University Press, New Delhi.
6. Dupont, Véronique (2002). The World of Towns :PopulationandDevelopment in India ,
Institutde Recherche pour leDéveloppement et Centre d’Etude de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud.
7. GOI (1988). Report of the National Commission on Urbanization ,Ministry of Urban
Development, New Delhi.
8. GOI (1996). Urban Development Plans: Formulation andImplementation , Ministry of Urban
Development, Governmentof India.
9. GOI (2001). Census of India 2001 , Government of India Publications,New Delhi.
10. GOI (2005a). ‘Urban Infrastructure’, Economic Survey 2004 –5,Ministry of Finance, New
Delhi.
11. GOI (2005b), Mid-term Appraisal of the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002 –2007) , Planning
Commission, New Delhi.
12. Gordon, Peter and Harry W. Richardson (1997). ‘Are CompactCities a Desirable Planning
Goal?’, Journal of the AmericanPlanning Association , 63(1), pp. 95 –106.
13. Jain, A.K. (2005). Vision for Delhi 2021: A Restructured City , DelhiDevelopment Authority,
Delhi.
14. Jurong (2003). IT Corridor Project. Structure Plan Report, JurongConsultants, Singapore,
January.
15. Kothari, B. (2002). ‘Transfer of Development Rights: An Alternativeto Conventional Land
Acquisition’, in 3iNetwork, India
16. Infrastructure Report 2002: Governance Issues for Commercialization ,Oxford University
Press, New Delhi.
17. Lewis, Paul and Mary Sprague (1997). Federal Transportation Policyand Metropolitan
Planning Organizations in California , PublicPolicy Institute of California, USA.
18. Lewis, W illiam, W. (2001). ‘Unlocking Potential: Removing Barriersto India’s Growth’, Wall
Street Journal , 11 September.

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19. McKinsey (2003). Vision Mumbai, Transforming Mumbai into aWorld -class City , A Bombay
First —McKinsey Report, Mumbai.
20. MSDI (2004). City D iagnosis , Report for BDA, Metropolitan SpatialData Infrastructure,
Bangalore.
21. Newman, Peter and Jeffery Kenworthy (1999). Sustainability andCities: Overcoming
Automobile Dependence , Island Press,Washington, DC.
22. Sirkantia, S.V. (2000). ‘Restriction on Maps: A Denial of ValidGeographical Information’,
Current Science , 79(4), August.
23. UITP (1995). The Millennium Cities Database for SustainableTransport , Union Internationale
des Transports Publics, Brussels.
24. UN (2005), World Urbanisation Prospect s: The 2003 Revision ,Population Division, United
Nations, New York.


Semester III
302 Public Policies and Citizens’ Engagements
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Political Economy of Indian State (15)
1.1 Hierarchical positioning and power structure: Center, State and Local political economy –
Powers and limitations of federal state
1.2 Planning commission and Five Year Plans – Financial Commission – CAG – powers and
limitations
1.3 Transformation of Indian stat e – welfare state to neoliberal state – characteristics and
contradictions
1.4 Changing role of state - state as a facilitator – various forms of public -private partnerships –
neoliberal policies – critical appraisal - regulatory state, reforming state, rent -seeking state
and their influence on spatial development

Unit II : Introduction to Basic Elements in Public Policy (15)
2.1 Identification of the socio -cultural and economic issues – constitutional and legal
arrangements
2.2 Making of the policy – policy analysis – various approaches to address the issues –
functional and operational difficulties
2.3 Defining and establishing the role of various institutions – structural arrangements and
coordination between various governmental agencies – involvement of pri vate sector,
voluntary organizations and citizens group
2.4 Policy Process Analysis – life course approach to policy analysis – multi -stream approach
and possible areas of integration in planning

Unit III : Policy Planning and Management (15)

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3.1 Overview of post -liberal Structural Adjustment Programs and its impact on policy making –
‘travelling policies’ and global commitments - Newer trends of Mission statements and goal -
setting techniques - centre, state and district level policy planning and operation al
hegemony - various vision documents and policy initiative
3.2 Policy and actual service provision mechanism – Politics of provision - public service
organizations - Market based arrangements, Multiservice provider arrangements in public
sector setting
3.3 Sectoral policy analysis – policies meant for various economic sectors – environmental
policies – Integration of various policies – policy synergism
3.4 Role of technology in service provision – application of information and communication
technologies in fas ter governance - E-Governan ce, E -Panchayat, E -Market, etc. -
Transparency, Accountability, Accessibility, and participatory mechanisms.

Unit IV : Policy and Politics (15)
4.1 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments and decentralized governance – implications on
local self governance – panchayat raj system – analysis of effectiveness of decentralized
governance on urban, peri -urban and rural areas – output vis -à-vis various states governed
by various political parties
4.2 Right to land – land use p olicies and land acquisition policies and politics of land – peri-
urban areas and land transactions – dispossession – rehabilitation packages – promises and
betrayals – case studies
4.3 Housing policies – slum rehabilitation and redevelopment schemes – affordable and rental
housing – right to live in the city – rural housing policies and implementation – real estate
and pressure politics – case studies
4.4Policies of poverty eradication – concept of poverty line and identification of beneficiaries –
polit ics ofpoverty – urban and rural poverty – politics of subsidized access to basic
infrastructural facilities – political space and execution - economically weaker section –
place and space – spatial identities - case studies

References:
1. Campbell, Tim; George Peterson and Jose Brakarz (1991): Decentralisation to Local
Government in Latin American Countries: National Strategies and Local Response in Planning,
Spending and Management; TheWorld Bank
2. Chelliah, Raja. J and O.P.Mathur (1995): Operationalisi ng Article 243Y of the Constitution
(Seventyfourth)Amendment Act, 1992; National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; New
Delhi.
3. Crook, Richard. C (1999): To What Extent Can Decentralised Forms of Government Enhance
theDevelopment of Pro - Poor Polici es and Improve Poverty - Alleviation Outcomes.
4. Davey, Kenneth (1989): Strengthening Urban Governance; Discussion Paper; Urban
DevelopmentDepartment, The World Bank.
5. Devas, Nick (2002) Issues in Fiscal Decentralisation: Ensuring Resources Reach the (Poor at)
thePoint of Service Delivery; International Development Department; School of Public Policy;
University of Birmingham

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6. Dillinger William (1993): Decentralisation and its Implications for Urban Service Delivery;
UrbanManagement Program; UNDP/ UN CHS/ World Bank Publications.
7. Duttta, Abhijit (1999): Institutional Aspects of Urban Governance in O.P. Mathur (ed.) India -
TheChallenges of Urban Governance; National Institute of Public and Policy, New Delhi.
8. Jha, Shikha (2002): Strengthening Local Governments’ Rural Fiscal Decentralisation in India;
Economic and Political Weekly; Vol. XXXVII; No. 36.
9. Kundu Amitabh, S. Bagchi& D. Kundu (1999): Regional Distribution of Infrastructure and
BasicAmenities in Urban India - Issues Concerning Empowerment of Local Governments;
Economic andPolitical Weekly; Vol. XXXIV; No.28.
10. Litvak, J, J. Ahmad and R. Bird (1998): Rethinking Decentralisation in Developing Countries;
SectorStudies Series; The World Bank; Washington DC.
11. Lister, Stephen & Mary Betley (1999): Approaches to Decentralisation in Developing
Countries;Background Paper for the MEFMI/ DFID Workshop on Good Practice in Public
ExpenditureManagement, Capetown
12. NIPFP (1995). Redefining State -Municipal Fiscal Relations - Options and Perspectives for the
StateFinance Commissions, Vol. I & Vol. III; NIPFP, New Delhi.
13. Rondinelli, D.A (1988): Increasing the Access of Poor to Urban Services: Problems, Policy
Alternatives and Organisational Choices, in Rondinelli and Cheema (ed.) Urban Services in
Developing Countries - Public and Private Roles in Urban Development; The Macmillan Press
Limited.
14. Rondinelli, D.A (1990): Decentralising Urban Development Programmes - A Framework for
Analysing Policy; Published by Office of Housing and Urban Programs of the USAID.
15. Sivaramakrishnan, K.C (2000): Power to the People: Process and Progress of
Decentralisation;Konark Publishers, New Delhi.
16. Singh, Kulwant (2001): Trends in Decentralisation and Urban Governance; Paper Presented
at theNational Seminar on “Emerging Perspectives of Urban Governance” at New Delhi during
8-9February (Publication details not available with the author)
17. Wolman, Hall and Sharon McCormic (1994): Effects of Decentralisation, in R.J. Bennet (ed.)
LocalGovernment and Market Decent ralisatio n: Experiences in Industrial, D eveloping and
Former EasternBlock Countries; United University Press; Tokyo, New York and Paris.
18. Government of India (2014), Fourteenth Finance Commission (2015 -20), Finance
Commission,India.
19. Government of Ta mil Nadu (1996), Historical background, First State Finance Commission
Report, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department
20. Oommen, M.A. (2015), Implications for Local Governments, Economic & Political Weekly,
May 23, 2015, Vol . no 21.

Semester III

303 A : The Experience of Urban Regeneration - Indian Cities
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

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Unit I : Residential Mobility and Inner city problem (15)
1.1 Why people move - factors influencing their decision to move -----lifecycle concept and
value expectancy model of migration decision making
1.2 Problem areas of the city – inner city –the process of dec line – multiple deprivation -
ageing and obsolescence – inner city congestion
1.3 Socialist interpretation of the inne r city problems
1.4 Suburban and peripheral growth
Unit II : Gentrification (15)
2.1 Gentrification – definition - process – history of gentrification
2.2 Politics, Ideology and theories of gentrification - agents of gentrification -difference
from re development and neighbourhood revitalization
2.3 Gentrification – product of operation of land and housing market – as state sponsored
initiative as a part of town and regional planning - institutionalized ethnic segregation
2.4 Costs and benefi ts – critical review
Unit III : Urban Regeneration (15)
3.1 Urban Regeneration - process and evolution –policies and strategies -----practice,
delivery and impact
3.2 Regeneration and housing policy and practice: residential policy at
city/regional/na tional scales ----historical and contemporary development of policy -----
practice, delivery and impact.
3.3 Sustainable urban regeneration – prism of urban sustainability - actions, policies and
processes - link between new urban economies, green economies and environmentally
sustainable urban regeneration
3.4 Urban regeneration – stake holders and actors – clashes of interests and agendas ––
good governance - more horizontal, multi -stakeholder coordination and cooperation
approach

Unit IV : Urban Regeneration and Conservation (15)
4.1Urban regeneration and conservation of heritage and cultural assets - Historic cities and
areas, heritage buildings and heritage zones –traditional architecture, unique streetscapes
- international charters, national and international guidelines – standards of conservation

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4.2 Urban Conservation – principles - econom ic, legal, aesthetic aspects – identification of
heritage buildings and zones – conservation of historic landscapes and natural settings –
urban tourism
4.3 Urban revitalization through conservation of cultural heritage and infrastructure –
cultural heritage in Transportation projects – cultural heritage in water and environmental
management projects
4.4 Urban revitalization and economic development - – cities as focal point for
development on these basis – sources of urban revitalization – increased income earning
opportunities – economic development – symbiotic nature of tourism and urban
development
Reference :
1. Carter, H (1972): The Study of Urban Geography, Edward Arnold.
2. A. Latham, D. McCormack, K. McNamara, D. McNeill (2009): Key Concepts in Geography,
Sage.
3. Campbell, H. 2006. “Just Planning: The Art of Situated Ethical Judgment.” Journal of Planning
Education and Research 26 (1): 92 –106.
4. Campbell, H. 2012a. “‘Planning Ethics’ and Rediscovering the Idea of Planning .” Planning
Theory 11 (4): 379 –99.
5. Campbell, H. 2012b. “Planning to Change the World: Between Knowledge and Action Lies
Synthesis.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 32 (2): 135 –46.
6. Pacione, M. 2005, Urban Geography, Routledge, New York
7. Communities and Local Government. 2006. Barker Review of LandUse Planning: Final
Report —Recommendations . London: Stationery Office.
8. Innes, J. 1995. “Planning Theory’s Emerging Paradigm: Communicative Action and Interactive
Practice.” Journal ofPlanning Education and Research 14 (3): 183 –91.




Semester III

303 B : Urban Housing and Neighbourhood Planning

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Introduction (15)
1.1 Urban planning and housing – housing as a basic need – definition –
1.2 housing tenure and home ownership

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1.3 housing availability, affordability – housing demand – qualit ative and quantitative
aspects
1.4 growth of slums and squatter settlements
Unit II : Housing and Its Implications (15)
2.1 Significance of housing in National Development Goals
2.2 Impact on economy -role of housing in the growth and function of urban
productivity - effects on labour markets and, human capital development
2.3 Housing types and quality – residential layouts, housing densities - urban congestion,
neighbourhood unit and community facilities - impact on the urban landscape
2.4 Major actors in the production of the built environment – role of real estate agents
Unit III : Housing Market (15)
3.1 Housing market: concept of housing class and housing groups – social aspects of
housing
3.2 Housing market process - private rental markets –process of public and private sector
housing development – public private partnership in housing sector
3.3 Socio -economic diversity and housing market performance - housing market a nd
socio -spatial disadvantage -- role of financial institutions and practice of red -lining –
3.4 Housing abandonment and neighbourhood decline - factors underlying
neighbourhood decline and revitalization
Unit IV : Housing Problems and Solutions (15)
4.1 Housing poverty – concepts of housing shortage – housing need - homelessness –
supply and demand for affordable housing
4.2 Financing affordable housing – housing assistance and social policy - strategies and
schemes to overcome housing shortage
4.3 Strategies to improve housing quality – filtering – clearance – rehabilitation – critical
appraisal – alternative strategies
4.4 Housing policies in India – housing for the low income groups – cooperative housing –
management and financing housing projec ts – investment in housing in public and
private sector

References

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3. Arimah, B.C. (1992b), "Hedonic prices and the demand for housing attributes in a Third
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4. Baer, W.C. (1991), "Filtering and third -world housing policy", Third World Planning Review
13:69 -82.
5. De Leeuw, F. (1971), "The demand for housing: a review of the cross -section evidence",
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6. De Leeuw, E and L. Ozanne (19 81), "Housing", in: H. Aaron and J. Pechman, eds., How Taxes
Affect Economic Behavior (The Brookings Institute, DC).
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Row, New York).
8. Diamond, D.B. Jr. and M.J . Lea (1992), "The decline of special circuits in developed country
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9. Diamond, D.B. Jr. and M.J. Lea (1993), "Housing finance in developed countries: an
international comparison of efficiency", in B. Turn er and C. Whitehead, eds., Housing Finance in
the 1990s (Gavle, Sweden: The National Swedish Institute for Building Research).
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Semester III
303 C :Smart Cites and Future Urbanism
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I Introduction (15)
1.1 Smart cities – concept - origin - ideology
1.2 Typologies and different meanings - Wired city – Virtual city – Intelligent city – Information
city – Digital city – Smart community – Knowledge city – Learning city – Sustainable city -
Green city
1.3 Characteristics of smart cities - smart economy – smart people – smart governance – smart
mobility – smart environment – smart living
1.4 Strategies and policies
Unit II Global experiences (15)
2.1 Approaches towards smart cities in various countries
2.2 Smart city planning in advanced economies – econom ic , financial viability – social
implications
2.3 Smart city planning in Global South – economic , financial viability – social implications
2.4 Case Study – Tel Aviv – the smartest city
Unit III Smart City Mission in India (15)
3.1 Smart city miss ion - Objectives – features – coverage and duration
3.2 Preconditions and criteria for the selection of smart city - actions and tools for smart cities
3.3 Strategies – retrofitting, redevelopment, greenfield, brownfield, pan -city
3.4 Governance and man agement – special purpose vehicles - smart solutions – arranging
finance and funds – PPP model of urban governance and development
Unit IV Critical Evaluation of Smart City Concept (15)
4.1 What is so ‘smart’ about the smart city - Critical evaluation of the smart city concept
4.2 The contradiction of being ‘smart’ – smart vs. dull – fast vs. slow – the urban and digital
divide – social divide
4.3 Financial and economic viability of smart city in the Global South
4.4 Critical evaluation of smart city development projects in India

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Semester III
303 D : Urban Transportation Systems
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Introduction (15)
1.1 Transport and urban form – transport modes and technology – transport design and
operating characteristics
1.2 Classification of roads – road layout and design - road network and connectivity –location
of routes and efficiency of networks – structuring nodal hierarchies – regional network of
roads – characteristics of national, state and district highways – By-pass design factors of
highways through towns
1.3 Competition and complementarity between modes of transportation and networks –
examples from developed and developing countries
1.4 Patterns of travel demand – transport and work pattern – demand and supply of public
transport traffic volume – congestion - parking and pedestrian issues

Unit II : Urban Transport (15)
2.1 Transport and urban design – broad pattern of rail, road, water and air transportation
2.2 transport and land uses - changing urban economic base, land use and urban structures –
consequent dynamics of transport development – uneven transport development
2.3 transport problems – traffic movement and congestion – crowding – off-peak inadequacy –
difficulties for pedestrian – parking problems – accidents – poor quality of public transport -
2.4 Role of public and private tr ansport – conflicts and clashes – people’s preferences – state
policies and institutional regulations
Unit III : Transport Costs (15)
3.1 Transport cost – determinants – comparative cost structures of major modes and systems
of transportation
3.2 Different responses to transport problems – supply -fix approach – vehicle oriented policy –
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3.3 Environmental concerns - air quality, sound pollution - vehicular emission - patterns of
energy consumption – adoption of alternative fuels – environmental assessment – measures
adopted
3.4 Transport system management – road pricing , auto -restraint, ride -sharing, - transport and
urban structure – full motorization , weak - centre stra tegy, strong –centre strategy, low -cost
strategy - – sustainable transport systems
Unit IV : Transport and Regional Development (15)
4.1 Transport and Sustainable Urban development –- transit -oriented development -transit
village – post -edge city - transport approaches - better processes – intelligent transportation
systems –congestion pricing –infrastructure reconstruction
4.2 transport systems in India – colonial transport systems and regional patterns – metropolitan
dominance and core -periphery im balance
4.3 Institutional transport regimes and transport planning during the post - independence
period in India – privatization and liberalization – changed policy perspectives – Implication of
JNNURM in Indian cities – Golden Quadrilateral
4.4 Issues of transport development in Mumbai and MMR
Reference Books:
1. Rodrigue Jean -Paul, Comtois Claude and Slack Brian, 2006, ‘The Geography of
Transport Systems’, Routledge.
2. Black, W., 2003, ‘Transportation: A Geographical Analysis’, New York, Guilford. 3. Hoyle B. and
R. Knowles, 1998, ‘Modern Transport Geography, 2 nd Edn., Wiley,
London.
4. Tolley R. and B. Turtle, 1995, ‘Transport systems, Policy and planning, A
Geographical Approach’, Harlow: Longman.
5. Taffee, E.J. and Gauthier,H.L. and M.E. O’ Kelly, 1996, ‘Geography of
Transportation’, Upper saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall.
6. Rimmer, P., ‘Transport Geography’, Progress in Human Geography’, 10, 271 -77.
7. Lowe, J C. and Moryadas, S, (1975): The Geography of Movement, Haughton Mifflin,
Boston .
8. Hurst, E., 1974, ‘Transport Geography -Comments and Readings’, McGraw Hill, New
York
9. Gatrell, A. (1983): Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective, Clarendon Press,
Oxford.
10. Hay, A.(1973): Transport for the Space -Economy, MacMillan, Lon don.
11 Chapman, K., 1980, ‘People, Pattern and Processes’, Arnold Hememann, New Delhi.
12. Abler, R.(1971): Distance Intercommunications and Geography, Proceedings of the
Association of American Geographers.
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14. Johnston, R.J. (1973): Spatial Structures, Methuen & Co. London
15. Abler. J.S., Gould, P. R. (1971): Spatial Organisation, Englewood cliffs, N. J,
Prentice Hall.
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Macmillan, U.K
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and the regional structure of the Indian Economy’, Concept, New Delhi.
18. Munshi S. (1980); ‘Geography of Tansportation in Eastern India Under the British
Raj’, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences , Monograph 1, Bagchi, Calcutta.
19. Vasconcellos Eduardo A., 2005, ‘Urban Transport Environment and Equity –
The Case for De veloping Countries’, Earthscan.
20. SwapnaBannerjee -Guha ‘Developing Urban Transport in Indian Cities: towards a
Sustainable Future’ 165 -183
21. Shepperd Eric and Barnes Trevor, J, 2000, ‘A Companion to Economic Geography’,
Blackwell.
22. Hansen Susan , 2000, ‘Hooked on Speed, Eyeing sustainability’, in Shepperd Eric and
Barnes Trevor, J, 2000, ‘A Companion to Economic Geography’, Blackwell, pp.
468-83.
23. Hansen Susan, 2004, ‘The Geography of Urban transportation’, Guilford Press.
3rd edn.
24. Mu ller, Peter, O., 2004, ‘Transportation and Urban Form - Stages in the Spatial
Evolution of the American Metropolis’, Guilford press.
25. DekaDevjyoti, 2004, ‘Social and Environmental Justice Issues in Urban
Transportation’, in Hansen Susan, 2004, ‘The G eography of Urban transportation’,
Guilford Press. 3 rd edn.
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Susan, 2004, ‘The Geography of Urban transportation’, Guilford Press. 3 rd edn.
Semester III
303 E : Rural Resou rce Development and Planning
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Village System (15)
1.1Village as an organic entity – physical, social, economic
1.2 Administrative structure of village - Administrative framework of rural areas – village
administration – district block – panchayats
1.3 Rural land use and morphology – theoretical perspectives
1.4 Rural resources – resource mobilization - social and economic implications
Unit II : Rural Development (15)

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2.1 Rural development and planning – theories – indicators of development
2.2 Rural Infrastructure development and associated issues
2.3 Rural community development strategies link with rural planning
2.4 Rural entrepreneurship
Unit III : Problematic of Rural Areas (15)
3.1 Rural Poverty – factors and processes – social and economic dimensions
3.2 Rural urban linkages – dichotomy or symbiosis
3.3 Rural urban divide in terms of infrastructure facilities
3.4 Challenges faced by rural areas –economic, social, environmental, fiscal
Unit IV : Rural Policy and Planning (15)
4.1 Rural development and planning – experiences of countries from Global South
4.2 Various internati onal, national and regional policies
4.3 Strategies adopted and rural development programmes with special reference to India.
4.4 Critical appraisal of rural development programmes

References
1. Carew -Reid J., Prescott -Allen R., Bass S. and Dalal -Clayton D.B. (1994): Strategies for
National Sustainable Development: A Handbook for their Planning and Implementation .
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and World Conserva tion
Union (IUCN), in association with Earthscan Publications Ltd, London.
2. IIED (1994): Whose Eden ? An Overview of Community Approaches to Wildlife
Management. International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
3. Roe D., Dalal -Clayton D. B. and Hughes R. (1995): A Directory of Impact Assessment
Guidelines. IIED, London.
4. Dalal -Clayton D.B. and Sadler B. (1995): Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Briefing
Paper. Environmental Planning Group, IIED.
5. Dalal -Clayton D.B. (1996): Getting to Grips with Green Plans: Recent Experience in
Industrial Countries . Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 288 pages.
6. Barry Dalal -Clayton, David Dent and Olivier Dubois (January 2000) : Rural Planning in the
Developing World with a Special Focus on Natur al Resources: Lessons Learned and Potential
Contributions to Sustainable Livelihoods: An Overview

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Semester III
304 A : Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient Cities – Global Perspectives

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I :Globalisation and Inequalities (15)
1.1 Contemporary Cities – advanced economic activities vs. conventional industries sunrise and
sunset industries - the ‘fast’ world and the ‘slow’ world –resulting economic disparities and
social segregations – theories of social segregation
1.2 Creative Destruction – Joseph Schumpeter – Critical perspective by Harvey, McLeod, Smith
and others - grandiose scale of planning – displacement, polarization and spatial
purification
1.3 Geography of exclusion - forms, patterns and terrains of exclusion – spatial exclusion, social
exclusion and economic exclusion
1.4 Exclusion vs. inclusion – Various approaches towards inclusive and sustainable development

Unit II : Inclusive Cities (15)
2.1 Spatial inclusion – affordable housing – infrastructural dev elopment – accessibility to basic
services and facilities – involvement of disadvantageous groups in planning - land titles and
ownership
2.2 Social and economic inclusion – right to equality – equal status – participation and
representation - identifica tion of conventional and newer skills – skill based training and
education – skill based employment generation – inclusion of disadvantageous groups –
appropriate knowledge and technology
2.3 Strategies – multi -sector solutions - preventive and curative solutions –prioritizing
investments - pro-poor policy initiatives – involvement of communities - participatory
approach – partnerships at various levels - local capacity building – decentralized
governance
2.4 Case Studies – Vietnam, Tanzania, Jamaica, Town and Village Enterprises (TVEs) China, India,
etc.

Unit III :Resilient and Sustainable Cities (15)
3.1 The concept of resilience – need and significance in the contemporary time – city
preparedness – adaptations – risk reduction and mitigation
3.2 Climate change and resilience – green infrastructure – green architecture – resource
efficiency and sustainability – international efforts and networking - USAID’s CityLinks Climate
Partnership Program - City Strength Resilient Cities Program - Citie s Development Initiative for
Asia – diverge experiments – successes and failures
3.3 Concept of Sustainability – financial, economic and environmental sustainability – city,
region and sustainability Resource identification, identification of spatial functional linkages,
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and identification of newer economic activities - hierarchical framework to incorporate
interests and ideas of various socio -economic gr oups - Selection of activities, spatial
allocations for the same by involving the affected groups in the decision making - blending and
integration of conventional and modernplanning experiments
3.4 City to city networking –‘travelling policies’ - produc tion and exchange of knowledge –
capacity building and involvement of various stakeholders – local, regional and international
collaborative efforts - training programmes – intra -city and inter -city governance panels -
networking and funding opportunities - accelerating their urban resilience efforts – case studies
from Global North and Global South

Unit IV : Livable Cities (15)
4.1 Urban space and gender – concept of gender budgeting – special infrastructural
development for women – urban design and women safety and security – gender sensitive
urban planning
4.2 Public spaces – accessibility, affordability and livability - public spaces and urban poor –
right to space – planning public spaces as corridors of freedom –
4.3 Planning for all – various use rs of public space – maintaining public goods and services –
street shopping and weekly markets – neighborhood planning and mixed landuse - applying
Jane Jacobs and her analysis
4.4 Differentially abled population – including the special needs in planning for the cities –
examples from Global North and Global South

References :
1. Florian Steinberg and Michael Lindfield (2011): Inclusive Cities , Urban Development Series,
Asian Development Bank
2. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2012
http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/disaster -statistics
3. J. da Silva, Moench. M. 2010. The Urban Resili ence Frame work (URF), ISET. Arup, ISET
International, Thailand Environmental Institute, Mercy Corps Indonesia,Gorakhpur
Environmental Action Group. 2013. Actions on Urban ClimateResilience. ISET.
4. S. Kernaghan and J. da Silva. 2014. Initiating and sustai ning action:Experiences building
resilience to climate change in Asian cities, Urban Climate 7, pp. 47 -63.
5. Arup. 2014, Understanding networks for cities and climate change. TheRockefe ller
Foundation, ACCCRN Network, Asian Development Bank.
6. A. Bahadur and T. Tanner. 2014. Transformational resilience thinking:putting people, power
and politics at the heart of urban climate resilience, Environment and Urbanization, vol. 26 no.
1. pp. 200 -214.
7. W. McBain, D. Wilkes, and M. Retter. 2010. Flood Resilience and Resistancefor Critical
Infrastructure. CIRIA C688. London , New York State Governor’s Office. 2013. NYS 2100
Commission Report:Building Resilience in New York.
8. H. Reid, J. Phillips, and M. Heath. 2009. Natural resilience: healthyecosystems as climat e
shock insurance. The International Institute forEnvironment and Development (IIED). IIED
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9. Siemens, Arup, RPA. 2013. Toolkit for Resilient Cities: Infrastructure,Technology and Urban
Planning. Siemens, Arup, RPA.
10. The World Bank. 2012. Buil ding Urban Resilience: Principles, Tools andPractice. The World
Bank, Australian AID.
11. The World Bank. 2013. Building Resilience: Integrating Climate and DisasterRisk into
Development. The World Bank, The Global Facility for DisasterRisk Reduction and R ecovery
(GFDRR).


Semester III

304 B : Climate Change and Future Planning

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I: Environment and Development (15)
1.1 The ideology of Creative Destruction – consequences – ‘big is beautiful’ idiom – resultant
patterns of spatial development in industrial and post -industrial era –Capitalist
development and state of environment – Neoliberalism, MNCs and commodification of
environment – compromised environment in developing and underdeveloped countries
1.2 Environmental movements – origin, evolution and achievement – peoples movement, case
studies – Ngoisation of environmental movements and associated contradictions – the
pres ent ‘state’ and status of movements
1.3 Environmental issue – local, regional and international – Global Warming and climate
change – consequences
1.4 Environmental politics – the climate change debate – Geo-politics of resources –
international efforts – Kyoto Protocol and environmental summits – successes and failures

Unit II Climate change, Cities and Regions - I (15)
2.1 The urban system – geographical location of major urban systems – consequences in the
light of sea -level change – Impact of other en vironmental issues – vulnerable groups
2.2 Indicators of urban environmental quality – air quality, water quality, terrestrial systems
and solid waste pollution – case studies from Global North and South – direct and indirect
impact of climate – vulnerab ilities – shocks and stresses – responses of various socio -economic
groups
2.3 Urban natural disasters – geographical factors – planning induced disasters – urban landuse,
morphology, faulty planning of infrastructure, building constructions, layout , arc hitecture,
drainage and sanitations system – consequences of inefficient city planning – case studies –
urban heat islands - weather and micro climatic changes
2.4 Rapid pace of urbanization and population densities – stresses and pressures on natural
resources – scarcity and unequal access - land as a resource – rapid conversion of land into
artificial city -scapes - consequences and contradiction – present urban planning, concretization
and status of urban environment – urban and community health – diseas es, epidemics and
general deterioration – psychological stress and mental health

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Unit III : Climate change, cities and regions –II (15)
3.1 Climate change and impact on agricultural systems – droughts and floods - impact on rural
population – vulne rability, displacement and dispossession
3.2 Contemporary form of spatial development – ‘urban’ oriented pattern of development -
Rapid conversion of agricultural lands into non -agricultural for various purposes – land scams
and politics – state sponsored and other forms of land acquisitions - loss of resources and
livelihoods – state - food security – community health - induced rural –urban migration and
pressures on cities
3.3 International legislation – IPCC – Greenpeace - UNEP conventions and regulations -
repercussions on urban and regional planning
3.4 The climate change risk calculation and equation – planning of disaster resilient
communities and cities – resilient planning and designing – street, drainage, sewerage, building,
architectural planning – bench marks – disaster management and GIS – case studies
Unit IV : Environmental Policies, Legislations and movements (15)
4.1 Urban and other local governmental bodies - legislation – environmental legislations
regarding industries, Developmental projects, green spaces, agricultural lands, coastal lands,
salt pans, etc. – newer policies of sustainable urban development – rainwater harvesting, solid
waste management – Environmental Impact Assessment

4.2 Role of State, Centre and other constituted bodies in environmental planning – powers and
limitations – implication on urban environment – Impact of new economic policy on ur ban
environment – new regionalism and environmental deterioration
4.3 Funding climate change prevention: market and non -market based approaches, role of
institutional actors: Government, NGOs, Multilateral agencies and citizen groups – elitist
environment alism – environmental management vs. ecological restoration
4.4 Indian planning visions to climate change and building resilient cities - Climate action plan –
schemes and policies – vision plans hi -tech, eco -friendly cities – policy and implementation –
case studies

Reference :

1. Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network. 2011. Surat City ResilienceStrategy, The
Rockefeller Foundation, Surat Municipal Corporation, TheSouthern Gujarat Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, TARU LeadingEdge.
2. Asian Cit ies Climate Change Resilience Network. 2013. ACCCRN CityProjects, The Rockefeller
Foundation Asia Office.
3. Arup. 2014. City Resilience Framework. The Rockefeller Foundation, CityResilience Index.
4. G. Bhat, U. Raghupathi, and U. Rajasekar. 2013. Urbanis ation – Poverty –Climate Change: A
Synthesis Report, India, Volume I and II.
5. A. Brown, A. Dayal, and C. Rumbaitis Del Rio, 2012, From practice to theory:emerging lessons
from Asia for building urban climate change resilience, Environment and Urbanization . pp. 24 –
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6. A. Brown and S. Kernagha n, 2011, Beyond Climate -Proofing: Taking anIntegrated Approach
to Building Climate Resilience in Asian Cities. UGECViewpoints, No. 6.Challenge to Change and
Hue University. 2009. Hazard, Capacity &Vulnerability Asse ssment in Da Nang. ACCCRN, The
RockefellerFoundation.
7. J. da Silva, S. Kernaghan, and A. Luque. 2012. A systems approach to meetingthe challenges
of urban climate change, International Journal of UrbanSustainable Development. pp.1 -21.
8. UN Habitat. 2013 . Planning for Climate Change – Toolkit. A strategic,values -based approach
for urban planners Cities and Climate ChangeInitiative. UN Habitat.




Semester III

304 C : Psychological Dimensions and City Planning

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Urban Society (15)
1.1 Being and becoming – a dialectical analysis – perceptions studies and making of mind – the
process of socialization – factors and processes
1.2 Urban populations – ethnic and cultural div ersity – segregation and/ or acculturation
1.3 intergroup relations – social and cultural harmony and / or socio -cultural conflict
1.4 social and cultural segregation – ethnicity , gender , sexuality, etc – the resultant mental
spaces and maps – inclusion and excl usion
Unit II : Urban Issues and Stresses (15)
1.1 urban poverty and inequality – ‘have’s and have not’s’ – scarcity and competition –
resultant perspectives towards individual and life
1.2 Issues of crime and violence – drug and substance abuse – euphoria and utopia
1.3 Urban regeneration and gentrification – neighbourhood replacements – identity crisis –
displacement, dispossession and neurological problems
1.4 Urban systems and everyday stress – psychosomatic disorders and malfunctioning –
increasing incidences of depression

Unit III Transience and the city (15)
3.1 Future Shock and Alvin Toffler – transience and city life – modular man – spaces as nomads
– globalisation and new class of international migrants
3.2 Man - space relations – a disconnect - individual and social discontinuities – erosion of place
attachment in local Commu nities - Place attachment in the working class under threat -
Complexities in understanding community - behavior and experience – metropolitan
consciousness
3.3 Changing cities – geography of ethics and morals – cognitive and emotional responses –
indifferenc es - technological transience - rise of the Internet and virtual forms of

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communication – simulations – cognitive and emotional responses and behaviours –
individual and social wellbeing
3.4 Analysis of how changing global conditions (economic, social, societ al and individual) affect
psychological processes such as environmental cognition, information processing and are
responsible for stress - coping strategies and defence mechanisms at gross and individual
level – its impact on individual and community life

Unit IV : Planning the Healthy Cities (15)
4.1 Psychology and institutions :neighbourhood planning and youth development, improved
parental practices in urban context, institutional interventions to support urban communities –
case studies
4.2 community efforts and citizens groups as a catalyst in creating healthy and supportive
environment – case studies - experiments of mohalla committees in Bhiwandi city
4.3 Initiatives by voluntary associations and faith -based associations – dealing with dru g abuse,
substance abuse – slum improvement and moral education
4.4 Intergroup Relations, Acculturation, and Identity Formation in Urban Multi -ethnic Contexts
- Advocate for Services for the Urban Poor - Develop New Programs and Services In Critical
Areas – counselling centres and helplines

References :
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New York.
2. Appleton, J., 1975. The Experience of Landscape. John Wiley, London.
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14. Dinh, K. T., Roosa, M. W., Tein, J. Y., & Lopez, V. A.(2002). The relationship between
acculturationand problem behavior proneness in a Hispanicyouth sample: A longitudinal
mediation model. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 30, 295-309.
16. Drake, R. E., Osher, F. C., & Wallach, M. A. (1991).Homelessness and dual diagnosis.
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Action, and Policy , year not defined
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Semester III

304 D : Culture, Creativity and Planning

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Culture, creativity and city (15)
1.1 Culture and Creativity – culture as a product , commodity and tourist package
1.2 Elements of culture – reflections on the composition of spatial forms – production of
cultural landscape
1.3 Cultural consumption – individual and social cultural consumption
1.4 Elem ents of cultural landscape – archaeology, architecture, monuments, heritage, art,
museums, food, music, drama, etc.

Unit II : Cultural Planning – European Experience (15)
1.1 History and Evolution of cultural planning – strategies – cultural districts – cultural tourism
1.2 Role of cultural planning in econom9ic and community development – neighbourhood,
community and downtown revitalisation
1.3 Cultural regeneration and Cultural Policies in Europe: From a State to a City Centered
Perspective on Cultural Generativity
1.4 Case studies of European cities

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Unit III : Geography of Consumption (15)
1.1 cultural consumption and visualisation – virtual experiences - sensory satisfactions and
consumptions – making of space of consumptions
1.2 cultural imperialism – Americanisation and McDonaldisation of culinary cultures –
Creolizsation and hybridity of commercial cultures – fusions and experiences of glocalisation
– discotheques, liquor, sex and the city – consequent cultural space -
1.3 Spatial imaginations and invest ment in cultural regeneration – art as an export based
industry – economic and financial feasibility – social cost – local cultures and communities –
their stake
1.4 Institutional support and development – City cultural affair department, Regional Arts
Counc il and various institutional networks

Unit IV : Learning and Application in Indian Context (15)
1.1 Identification of cultural resources – spatial character of cultural diversity and uniqueness
1.2 Role of governmental agencies – Ministry of cultural affairs – preservation, promotion of
local cultures – various schemes and efforts
1.3 Cultural planning in Indian Context – Various views and approaches
1.4 Case Studies

References :
1. Mansvelt Juliana, 2005, ‘Geographies of Consumption’, Sage.
2. Leyshon Andrew, Lee Roger, McDowell Linda and Sunley Peter, 2011, The Sage Handbook of,
‘Economic Geography’, Sage, pp. 303 -350- Part 7.
3) Barabasi, A. & E. Bonabeau. (2003) : Scale -Free Networks, ScientificAmerican, 288 (5): pp.60 –
69.
4) Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A . & P. Maskell. (2004) : Clusters and knowledge :local buzz, global
pipelines and the process of knowledge creation,Progress in Human Geography, n° 28, pp. 31 -
56.
5) Bianchini, F. & M. Parkinson. (1995) : Cultural Policy and UrbanGeneration: The West
Europ ean Experience, Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press.
6) Boudreau, J. A., Hamel, P., Jouve, B., & R. Keil. (2006) :Comparingmetropolitan governance
: The cases of Montreal and Toronto, Progress inPlanning, vol. 66, n° 1.
7) Camagni, R. (1999) : The cit y as a Milieu: applying the Gremi approach tourban development,
Revue d’EconomieRégionale et Urbaine, 3, pp.591 -606.
8) Camagni, R. (2004) : Uncertainty, Social Capital and CommunityGovernance: the City as a
Milieu, in R. Capello& P. Nijkamp, pp.121 -152.
9) Florida, R. (2004) : Cities and the creative class, London , Routledge.
10) Florida, R. (2002) : The Rise of the Creative Class. And How It'sTransforming Work, Leisure
and Everyday Life, Basic Books.
11) Florida, R. (2005) : The Flight of the Creative Cla ss: The New GlobalCompetition for Talent,
London: Harper Collins.
12) Gertler, M. (2003) : Tacit knowledge and the geographic economy ofcontext or the
undefinable tacitness of being there, Journal of economicgeography, pp.75 -99.

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13) Glaeser, E. L. (2004) : Book Review of Richard Florida’s “The Rise of theCreative C lass”,
Harvard Business School, http://www.creativeclass.com/rfcgdb/articles/GlaeserReview.pdf
14)Bandarin, F. & R. V an 0ers. (2012) : The Historic Urban Landscape. New York: Wiley &
Blackwell.
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P. Jackson, M. Lowe, D. Miller and F. Mort (eds.), Commercial Cultures: Economies, Practices,
Spaces, Oxford: Berg.
16) Bridge, G. and Smith, A. (2003) 'Guest editorial. Intimate encounters: culture - economy –
commodity', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 21: 257 -68.

Semester III

304 E : Integrated Rural Development

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Unit I : Introduction (15)
1.1 Decentralised planning in India – concept of panchayat raj and hierarchical arrangements
1.2 Gandhian and Nehruvian visions – top-down and bottom approaches – trickle down process
1.3 Recent amendments and decentralized gover nance - 73rd and 74th constitutional
amendment acts – implication in regional and rural planning – status of local self -
government bodies
1.4 Participative district planning - role of Planning Commission & Finance Commissions

Unit II : District as a Unit of Planning (15)
2.1 Identification of resources, skills, economic linkages and interconnections – socio -economic
and spatial relations of production and consumption - interrelations and interdependencies
between communities and micro -regions
2.2 Iden tification of micro -regions on the basis of functions – identifying and strengthening
backward and forward linkages – establishing a connection between conventional and newer
economic sector – introduction of supportive activities to that of already existi ng
2.3 Institutional and other support for District Planning Committee, Bridging gap through
district planning, funds and finances, consolidation of urban and rural plans
2.4 Multi -Sector and multi -level integrated approach to planning (vertical and horiz ontal spatial
integration) - Capacity Building for Decentralised Planning - involvement of various stakeholders

Unit III :Rural Development Programmes (15)
3.1 Five Year Plans and rural development – globalization and shifting emphasis of planning
from rural -centric to urban -centric - various approaches and perspectives towards rural
development and planning – village development plan
3.2 Programmes/Policies/Sc hemes for rural development, their coverage and outcomes –
investments, revenue and expenditure – funding from various bodies like centre, state and
district

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3.3 Rural Infrastructure Development - Bharat Nirman – A business plan for rural infrastructure,
Rural Building Centers, PMGSY, IAY, Rajiv Gandhi Technology Mission, Central Rural Sanitation
Programme, PURA, Asha Programme for rural health, ICDS for rural and tribal health, etc
3.4 Rural Employment Schemes - Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gua rantee Act
2005, SampoornaGrameenYojana, National Food for work programme, SwarnaJayanty Gram
Swarozgaryojana, National Social Assistance ProgrammeCommand Area Programme, Draought
Prone Area Programme, Backward Area Development Programme, North Eastern Dev elopment
Programme.

Unit IV : Problematic of Integrated Rural Planning (15)
4.1 Rapid pace of urbanization and changing profile of rural and peri -urban areas – land
transactions – loss of agricultural lands – changing work profile, loss of livelihoo ds and
associated challenges - land conversions and its regulation/facilitation in peri -urban areas
4.2 Various Issue in integrated planning – nature of investments in rural areas – productive and
nonproductive – market economy and status of agriculture – socio -cultural stratifications and
issues of participatory governance – politics of resources and urban dichotomy – placements of
rural areas vis -à-vis urban – exploitative regime
4.3 Technology in Rural Development – use of information technology in rur al development,
rural Information system, weather forecasting, disaster minimization, market information, etc.
E- Panchayats, energy efficient technologies and alternative technologies
4.4 Rural Development experiences of some Asian Countries – China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh.

References :
1. Hughes R., Adnan S. and Dalal -Clayton D.B. (1994): A Review of Approaches to Water
Management in Bangladesh . Research and Advisory Services, D haka, Bangladesh;
andInternational Institute for Environment and Development, London.
2. Carew -Reid J., Prescott -Allen R., Bass S. and Dalal -Clayton D.B. (1994): Strategies forNational
Sustainable Development: A Handbook for their Planning and Implementati on.International
Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and World ConservationUnion (IUCN), in
association with Earthscan Publications Ltd, London.
3. IIED (1994): Whose Eden ? An Overview of Community Approaches to WildlifeManagement.
Internatio nal Institute for Environment and Development, London.4. Roe D., Dalal -Clayton D.B.
and Hughes R. (1995): A Directory of Impact AssessmentGuidelines. IIED, London.
5. Dalal -Clayton D.B. and Sadler B. (1995): Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Briefing
Paper. Environmental Planning Group, IIED.
6. Dalal -Clayton D.B. (1996): Getting to Grips with Green Plans: Recent Experience inIndustrial
Countries . Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 288 pages.
7. Barry Dalal -Clayton, David Dent and Olivier Dubois (Janu ary 2000) : Rural Planning in the
Developing World with a Special Focus on NaturalResources: Lessons Learned and Potential
Contributions to SustainableLivelihoods: An Overview

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Semester III
305 :City Development Plan and Regional Development Plan
No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120

Students are expected to select specific cities and their regions. While understanding
these cities and their regions, students are expected to prepare city and regional
development plan considering all the aspects of planning and governance . Small and
medium cities and their hinterland regions will be preferred for the same. The students
are expected to develop a balanced vision that shall help them in having better
understanding of dynam ic processes that shape cities and their regions. The
understanding shall also help them in devising appropriate planning measures and
interventions that would bring in the balanced pattern of development.


Semester III
306 :Geo-Informatics for Urban/Rural management

No. of Credits: 4 Teaching Hours 60 + Notional Hours 60= Total hours 120
Unit I : Image Registration and Processing
Registration of aerial photographs and imageries from different time points - change detection -
electromagnetic spe ctrum, band combinations, supervised and unsupervised Classification, dat a
acquisition, radiometric resolution, temporal resoluti on, object -based image analysis - Analyzing &
Presenting data in three d imensions - 3D Visualization —ArcScene&ArcGlobe - 3-D map ping of land and
its use in city andregional planning. Geo visualization of landscpes: rural and urban.

Unit II : Spatial Data Infrastructure Development in India
Spatio -temporal data modeling and analysis -Spatial Data Infrastructure: conceptual
framewo rk, network development and hierarchy setup use ofSDI in urban and regional planning
and decision making process - Open Geospatial Consortium –ISO standards (TC211) .

Unit III :Application of Spatial Data Infrastructure in Urban and Regional Management
NRDMS and NSDI – a multi-level spatial data infrastructure – case studies of various state
initiatives - NCT Delhi SDI - Karnataka and Kerala Portals – Bhoomi - Gujarat’ s Tax programme -
application to coastal area planning – Tamil Nadu coast.
Unit IV : SDI application in Planning and Decision Support
Application in Population Data Sets, Natural Resource Repository - Integr ated Water Resource
Management – application in agriculture & ruraldevelopment, geospatial appli cation in
transportation - disas ter manag ement and conservation – solid waste management – case
studies from India and abroad.

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References :

1. Burrough, Peter A and McDonnell, R.A. (1998): Principles of Geographical Information Systems,
Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
2. Campbell. J. (1989): Introduction to Remote Sensing, Guilford, New York.
3. Clarke, Keith C. (1998): Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems, Prentice -Hall
Series in Geogl. Info. Science, Prentice -Hall, Inc. N.J.
4. Curran, Paul, J, (1988): Principles of Remote Sensing, Longman, London.
5. Heywood, I.et al (2002): An Introduction to Geological Systems, Pearson Education Limited, New
Delhi.
6. Iliffe, J.C (2006), Datums and Map Projections for Remote Sensing, GIS and Surveying, Whittles
Publishing, New York.
7. Jonson. R. J. (2003): Remote Sensing of the Environment -An Earth Resources Perspective,
Pearson Education Series in Geographical Information Science, Keith C. Clarke (Series editor)
Pearson Educators Private Limited. (Singapore), NewDelhi.
8. Lilles and Thomand and RelphKiffer (1994). Remote Sensing and Image Interpretations, John
Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
9. Parker, R, N. (2008),GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences, Routledge, New York.
1. Paul Longley (2005), Geographic Information S ystems and Science, John Wiley & Sons.
11. Pickles, John (2006), The Social Implications of geographic Information Systems, Rawat
Publications, Jaipur.
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Annexure I

Department of Geography

University of Mumbai

Two Year Degree Course of Master of Urban and Regional Planning

As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
(With effect from the academic year 2016 -2017)

Question Paper Pattern for Semester I and II

For semester I, II and III following pattern of examination will be followed : -

Theory Paper: 100 marks for each paper (Total papers 4)

Internal examination : Total marks 40 (in each theory paper)
External examination: Total marks 60 (in each theory paper)

i) Total no. of questions to be framed for theory paper in external examination: 6; 15 marks each.
ii) Out of the 6 questions, students are required to attempt any four questions.


Practical Paper: 100 marks for each paper (Total papers 2)

I & II End Semester Question Paper in Practicals -
A: External examination: Total Marks - 100

i) Students are exp ected to attempt total four questions of 20 marks each i.e. 80 marks
ii) Marks for Journal – 10
iii) Marks for Viva -voice - 10
ivAll questions are compulsory
v) No of questions would correspond with number of major modules in the respective practical
Cours e syllabus.

For Semester IV the pattern of examination will be as follows
Each student will have to do internship in fourth semester from various recognised institutions
and organisations. Each Student is expected to choose a research theme approved by the
department and submit a thesis. The thesis will be given a weightage of 18 credits. The
remaining six credits will be given for the End Exam (Viva -Voce). The general format and
guidelines shall be laid down by the department. The research work is expected to contain
original work.