The book presents a humane approach to urban planning in India by incorporating Indian cultural peculiarities, habits, and user preferences that are often ignored in current planning practices which are based on European and North American norms. It establishes that Indian users have distinct preferences due to socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural differences. The book develops a framework for planning cities in India that considers these culture-specific user aspects in order to reduce conflicts between planning principles and local urbanism traditions, and to create more congenial social environments.

1. Humane Approach
to Urban Planning
Dr Priya Choudhary
Professor
Smt. Manoramabai Mundle College
of Architecture, Nagpur
The book is an effort to evolve and present a humane approach for planning practices in India.
The planning approach, followed in India, mostly ignores the cultural peculiarities, habits, preferences
of Indian users. This is mainly because, all the city planning… preparation of development plans is based
on the planning norms formulated in Europe or North America. Due to socioeconomic, demographic
and cultural differences in Indian context, the Indian users and their preferences are very much
different. It may be useful to incorporate culture-specific user aspects and evolve a humane approach
to city planning in India. The consideration of user preferences will not only reduce conflicting
situations in urban areas due to non-congruence between planning principles adopted and principles
of urbanism rooted in the place, but will also be congenial to developing appropriate social
environments.
The book presents a study about Indian built
environments and its users. It brings out the
peculiarities of Indian users, their preferences
and Indian principles of urbanism. The book
establishes the fact that there are culture-
specific user preferences in Indian context and
further evolves a framework for humane
approach to deal continuously evolving built
environments in urban India.
Dr Priya Choudhary is the
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional
Research Fellowship in 2011 and MASA
Best TeacherAward in 2012.
recipient of
June 2015
HB | 202pp
978-93-83419-21-0
INR 2495.00
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