The presentation discusses basics of the professional urban planning practices. It begins from What is urban planner's role and include tasks for a planner, national, state and ULB level scopes, a planner in the development management, real estate, advice, arbitration, legal services and research along with, of course, education and training. It is a part of Legal Issues in Urban Planning, a course taught in Semester IV of M. E. Town & Country Planning (under GTU) at SCET, Surat.

1. Professional Urban
Planning Practice
Legal Issues in Urban Planning
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2. What is?
• Vast scope – Development of ‘Land’
– Planning of a site – city – region – nation…!
• Sector specific plans
– Housing
– Transportation
– Tourism
– Utilities
– Facilities
– Services
– Education, Training, Research
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4. National Planning
• Limited to providing advice to Governments/ Clients
• National policies
– National Urbanization Policy
– National Urban Housing and Habitat Policy
– National Urban Transportation Policy
– Urban Street Vendors Policy
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5. National Planning
• Programmes
– JnNURM
– UIDSSMT
– Bharat Nirmaan
– NHDP
– IHSDP
– BSUP
• Guidelines
– UDPFI/ URDPFI
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• Model Laws
– Model Urban and
Regional Planning &
Development Law
– Model Building
Byelaws
– State Govt. laws
• Amendments in The
Constitution
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6. Regional Planning
• Perspective plans / vision (long term – 20/25 Years)
• Regional Development Plans (medium term – 5 Yr plan)
• Sectoral plans
– Agricultural
– Industrial
– Infrastructure
– Environmental conservation
– Disaster management
– Tourism
– Transportation
– Heritage conservation
– Coastal areas
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7. Regional Planning
• Regional Schemes
• Village development plans
• Block development plans
• Partial services under urban planning
• Regional monitoring & plan evaluation
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8. Urban Planning
• Perspective Plan / Vision (20-25 years)
• Development plan (5 – 10 years)
• Ward planning
• Local area planning
• Zonal planning
• Annual planning
• Focused area planning
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9. Urban Planning
• Plans of projects and schemes for
– Residential, commercial, industrial, recreational area development
– Public and semi-public area (education/ health care institution, Government
offices) development
– Conservation
– Redevelopment/ renewal/ up-gradation
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10. Urban Planning
– Socio-economic and physical
surveys
– Base map preparation using
RS/ GIS
– Traffic surveys
– Urban level studies (any)
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• Rendering of partial services of
– Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
– Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
– Cost-benefit analysis
– Feasibility studies
– Appraisal and Evaluation of sites/ schemes
– Project formulation (DPR)
– Financial plan to funding agencies
– Utilities planning (WS, SS, SWD, SWM, HWM, El)
– Services (Communication, Police, Fire protection)
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11. Development Management
• Plan Processing
• Plan Implementation using
– Programming and phasing
– Supervision
– Inter-agency coordination
– Liaison
• Plan enforcement
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12. Real Estate Development
• Advice to public / private sector developers
• Land potentiality assessment
• Land suitability analysis
• Any other (analysis / design of urban level)
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13. Advice, Arbitration, Legal Services
• Function of giving evidences on planning and development
matters before a committee or court of law
• Advising to client to be present in a court of law
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14. Research
• Study on various issues
• Fundamental research (evolution of concepts,
theories and models)
• Applied research (problems faced by
professionals in field)
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15. Education and Training
• Formal teaching – Graduate / Post-graduate degrees
• Training – awareness, skill development, knowledge transfer
• Course curriculum designing
• Organizing workshops/ seminars/ conferences
• Evaluation of the performance of participants
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16. Types of practice
• Public sector (Government, DPC, MPC, ULB)
• Private sector (Consultant / designer/ NGO/ CBO)
• Joint sector (GO-NGO)
• International practice under WTO, GATT, UNDP, UNESCO, WB, ADB,
JICA
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