This document summarizes the history of urban planning in Bangladesh, beginning with early initiatives in the 1950s to plan areas in Dhaka. It then discusses the establishment of various urban development authorities and the introduction of master plans for major cities in the late 1950s/early 1960s based on a British model. The document outlines the evolution of planning approaches and hierarchies, including the introduction of structure plans, master plans, and detailed area plans in the 1990s. It provides examples of planning projects undertaken by various authorities like RAJUK, CDA, KDA, and LGED up to the present day.
types and contents for regional planning for block,district,state and nationgayathrysatheesan1
level planning framework. All planning activities at the district level will be with a single planning body at the district level. This body will be in line with Planning Boards at the state level and Planning Commission at the national level.
types and contents for regional planning for block,district,state and nation ppt
types and contents for regional planning for block,district,state and nationgayathrysatheesan1
level planning framework. All planning activities at the district level will be with a single planning body at the district level. This body will be in line with Planning Boards at the state level and Planning Commission at the national level.
types and contents for regional planning for block,district,state and nation ppt
An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages. Any portion of earth’s surface where physical conditions are homogeneous can be considered as a Region in geographic sense, ranging from a single feature region to compage, depending on the
criteria used for delineation. In practice, a prefix is added to highlight the attributes on which the region has been defined, for example, agriculture region, resource region, city region, planning region.
All the daily activities of human beings are carried out on land. Proper organization of these activities i.e. planning will help the human being in leading a richer and fuller life in livable surroundings or environment. "Planning" means the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban and rural communities.
This document is mainly on the periodical development of Bangladesh mostly its cities and towns. To this day the master plans, local initiatives and authorities to establish todays urban culture has been gathered here promptly.
Here, the history is associated from the early times of 2nd World War to modern days detailed area mapping.
More focus has been put on urban planning development and the working agenda of various initiative those had been taken and proposed to be taken .
Pursuing any development or neighborhood plan today involves
working with a myriad of actors beyond professional collaborators
during planning and design phases. These include direct abutters,
surrounding neighbors, elected offi cials, public agencies, opponents
(often), investors, financial institutions, and regulators, all billed as
“stakeholders.” Navigating the shoals created by cadres of stakeholders
is perhaps the greatest challenge to pursuing sophisticated
ideas about and goals for urbanism.
Consensus around goals that arenot very ambitious is, unfortunately, common. However, rather thanwallow in despair about the unpredictable nature of decentralized processes, urban designers must learn to be more effective collaborators,willing participants in true interdisciplinary endeavors, and advocatesfor ideas not always their own, ideas that have the potential
to rally others around higher expectations, not expedient solutions.
Such skills are not always available in a designer’s tool kit.
Some blame the messiness of democratized processes for producing mediocrity.
On the other hand, many can offer examples of substantial benefits to projects as a result of broader community participation.
Then, too, there is that maxim among seasoned urban designers, “To
envision takes talent, to implement takes genius.”
Source of Original paper: Publication of Asiatic Society on the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2010. Also in WEB:
http://buet.academia.edu/DrFaridaNilufar
An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages. Any portion of earth’s surface where physical conditions are homogeneous can be considered as a Region in geographic sense, ranging from a single feature region to compage, depending on the
criteria used for delineation. In practice, a prefix is added to highlight the attributes on which the region has been defined, for example, agriculture region, resource region, city region, planning region.
All the daily activities of human beings are carried out on land. Proper organization of these activities i.e. planning will help the human being in leading a richer and fuller life in livable surroundings or environment. "Planning" means the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban and rural communities.
This document is mainly on the periodical development of Bangladesh mostly its cities and towns. To this day the master plans, local initiatives and authorities to establish todays urban culture has been gathered here promptly.
Here, the history is associated from the early times of 2nd World War to modern days detailed area mapping.
More focus has been put on urban planning development and the working agenda of various initiative those had been taken and proposed to be taken .
Pursuing any development or neighborhood plan today involves
working with a myriad of actors beyond professional collaborators
during planning and design phases. These include direct abutters,
surrounding neighbors, elected offi cials, public agencies, opponents
(often), investors, financial institutions, and regulators, all billed as
“stakeholders.” Navigating the shoals created by cadres of stakeholders
is perhaps the greatest challenge to pursuing sophisticated
ideas about and goals for urbanism.
Consensus around goals that arenot very ambitious is, unfortunately, common. However, rather thanwallow in despair about the unpredictable nature of decentralized processes, urban designers must learn to be more effective collaborators,willing participants in true interdisciplinary endeavors, and advocatesfor ideas not always their own, ideas that have the potential
to rally others around higher expectations, not expedient solutions.
Such skills are not always available in a designer’s tool kit.
Some blame the messiness of democratized processes for producing mediocrity.
On the other hand, many can offer examples of substantial benefits to projects as a result of broader community participation.
Then, too, there is that maxim among seasoned urban designers, “To
envision takes talent, to implement takes genius.”
Source of Original paper: Publication of Asiatic Society on the Celebration of 400 years of the Capital Dhaka, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2010. Also in WEB:
http://buet.academia.edu/DrFaridaNilufar
In cooperation with the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC, Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic issues facing Bangladesh.
Urban morphology approaches human settlements as generally unconscious products that
emerge over long periods, through the accrual of successive generations of building activity.
This leaves traces that serve to structure subsequent building activity and provide
opportunities and constraints for city-building processes, such as land subdivision,
infrastructure development, or building construction. Articulating and analysing the logic of
these traces is the central question of urban morphology. Urban morphology is not generally
object-centered, in that it emphasizes the relationships between components of the city. We
will be discussing in detail about the urban morphology of the Chennai metropolitan.
IMPACT OF URBAN PARTNERSHIP FOR POVERTY REDUCTION (UPPR) PROJECT: A CASE STUD...Kazi Mahfuzur Rahman
ABSTRACT
In urban area huge amount of poor people leads unsatisfied life. They are deprived from their basic
needs and other facilities. Urban poor is one of the major problem in developing countries. So Urban
Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project is run to reduce the urban poor. This paper has
examined the impact of Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) Project which is executed
by Local Government Engineering Department (LGED). How this project is run and how much the
poor people is benefited from this project is necessary to identify. To examine the impact of this
project some project area is surveyed and get comparison between their present and past condition.
The data was collected by field survey and the findings show the change of their socio-economic
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Staff presentation on Austin Comprehensive Plan RFQ processgclaxton
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Transit Value Capture Finance - A Global Review of Monetary Potential and Per...Dapo Olajide
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The report covers the following areas:
• The definition and rationale behind Land Value Capture (LVC)
• The types of LVC instruments and examples
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• The critical success factors for the successful implementation of LVC finance
Urban planning is the process of developing and designing urban areas. Encompassed in that process is the use of open land, air, water, and the built environment, including buildings, transportation, economic and social functions. Typically used as part of a larger city plan, an urban plan should tie back to an organization’s mission and vision statements.
Master Plan for Delhi–with the Perspective for the Year 2021
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Chandigarh remains grossly misunderstood and appreciated with entire credit of city planning and development given to Le- Corbusier and his team. In the process, enormous work done by the first team of Architects ( led by Albert Mayer and Ar. Methew Nowiscki ) engaged for the planning and development of Chandigarh, remains unknown, unrecognised, diluted and marginalised. Basic concept of city planning, besides defining the framework for locating the four major components of the city- Capitol, City Centre, University and Industrial areas was all done by the first team including preparing the master plan super-block, city centre, capitol etc. Second plan prepared by Corbusier is primarily and essentially was based on the first master plans because second plan was prepared merely in 96 hours by Le- Corbusier. First plans had its positivity and uniqueness, which would have made Chandigarh a different city from what it is today. It makes a interesting study to compare two master plans to visualise the shape and function of the city had the first master plan was implemented. Looking at the present context, Could you ever think of city beautiful Chandigarh, being a leaf shaped city, with all curved and radial roads, planned as a traditional Indian city with bustling bazaars, without wonderful Sukhna lake, having no sector, without ceremonial Jan Marg, without bustling Madhya Marg and without vibrant shopping streets V4 with Sukhna choe lost in the haze and glory of Capitol complex. This would have been a distinct reality, had the first master plan prepared by Albert Mayer would have been implemented to make the capital city a reality. Historically looking, Chandigarh remains the product and synthesis of two distinct but diametrically different master plans (in thought, approach, intent, content, planning and architecture), prepared for the city by the American and French architects. First plan shows clearly the influence of principles and pattern of American planning with basic residential unit defined by Superblock, whereas Corbu plan has genesis in French approach to city planning based on the ideology of CIAM.
Chennai the fourth largest metropolis in India. Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) extends over 1189 sq.km.and comprises of
Chennai Corporation,
16 Municipalities,
20 Town Panchayats and
214 villages covered in 10 Panchayats Unions
It encompasses the Chennai District (176 sq.km.), part of Thiruvallur District (637 sq.km.) and a part of Kancheepuram District (376 sq.km.).
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in Southeast Asia.
It is located at the end of the Malayan Peninsula between Malaysia and Indonesia.
Singapore has a total land area of 724.2 square kilometers.
Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 58 other islets.
Since independence[1965], extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23%.
Singapore is very small in size and confined. so, there every sq. meter matters.
Now, 90% of citizens in Singapore own their houses.
Urban planning in Singapore has formulated and guided its physical development from the day Singapore was founded in 1819 as a British colony to the developed, independent country it is today.
Urban planning is especially important due to land constraints and its high density.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore's national land-use planning authority.
URA prepares long term strategic plans, as well as detailed local area plans, for physical development, and then co-ordinates and guides efforts to bring these plans to reality.
Prudent land use planning has enabled Singapore to enjoy strong economic growth and social cohesion, and ensures that sufficient land is safeguarded to support continued economic progress and future development
In 1822, Raffles initiated a comprehensive town plan called land use plan.
This plan to guide the allocation of land in the principal town to ensure that its physical growth followed an orderly pattern.
This became known as the Raffles Town Plan, or the Jackson Plan, drawn up by Lieutenant Philip Jackson and published in 1828.
Among its key features were a GRID LAYOUT for the road network and a clear segregation of residential communities by ethnic group (European, Chinese, Indian, Malay and Arab).
A separate area called Commercial Square (later renamed Raffles Place) was designated for commercial activities and another area was zoned for government functions.
Raffles Place and the street pattern of the city Centre
today are evidence of this colonial legacy.
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Overview of the fundamental roles in Hydropower generation and the components involved in wider Electrical Engineering.
This paper presents the design and construction of hydroelectric dams from the hydrologist’s survey of the valley before construction, all aspects and involved disciplines, fluid dynamics, structural engineering, generation and mains frequency regulation to the very transmission of power through the network in the United Kingdom.
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2. During 1950s a town planning cell of the
than ‘Construction and Building Depart
ment-C&B’ (later splited to PWD,RHD) of
the Ministry of Public Works used to do the
functions of Town Planning.
Its major contributions include,
Azimpur and Motijheel Govt.Colony
Tejgaon Industrial Area and
Motijheel Commercial Area
3. Dhaka Improvement Trust (Present RAJUK), 1956
Housing and Settlement Directorate (HSD) 1958
Chittagong Development Authority 1959
Khulna Development Authority 1961
Urban Development Directorate (UDD) in 1965.
Rajshahi Town Development Authority (RTDA) 1976
National Housing Authority (NHA) 2000
4. Micro Level Planning During Colonial Period
Housing Area Development at
WARI, Dhaka
5. Early Pakistan Period Initiative
A committee was formed in early 50s headed by the then
minister Hamidul Haque Chowdhury to prepare a development
plan for Dhaka city.
The committee, with the assistance of the then Building and
Construction (C & B) Department, prepared a few micro-level
area plans for residential, commercial and industrial
development of the than Dhaka city during early fifties.
Based on these plans Azimpur Government Housing Estate,
Motijheel Government Houisng Estate, part of Motijheel
Commercial Area and Tejgaon Industrial Area were developed.
6. Other Local Level Community Initiatives
Segunbagicha Housing Area
Street Patter n Connecting every plot
Service latrine path
Fairly regular road pattern
Kalabagan Lake Circus and Natun Paltan Line
The land owner community together worked out area road pattern only.
Lalmatia Residential Area
Formed community association
Approached public works ministry to make a plan
UDD in collaboration with the local association devised a comprehensive
housing area plan with street pattern, space for school, play field, mosque
,association office, etc.
7. Beginning of City Level Planning
City level urban planning in Bangladesh began in late fifties.
Provincial Government apprehending large scale urban growth in spontaneous pattern caused by in-
migration from India, decided to go for master plan of three major cities - Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna
to ensure planned spatial development.
With the technical assistance under Colombo Plan, a consortium of British consulting firms was engaged
for this purpose.
From 1959 to 1961, master plans for Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna were prepared.
The plans were prototype and followed the post World War II British master plan style.
The entire city was divided into a number of land use zones and connected by road network and other
line services.
Infrastructure of various categories were proposed and spaces were reserved for such facilities as, road,
site for public buildings, sewerage treatment plant, water treatment plant, fire station, recreational open
space, etc.
• The land use zones were, housing, open space, commercial, industrial and education. The land use
zoning plan served as the zoning regulatory measure.
The plan also made recommendations about development in above sectors.
8.
9. Dacca Master Plan 1959: Structure and Contents
The plan was prepared in map form showing proposed land use and infrastructure development.
An explanatory report was created to describe the plan contents more elaborately.
Two categories of plans were submitted-one for the entire DIT (the previous name of RAJUK) area with a scale of 1:20,000.
The second plan was for the core Dhaka and its adjoining areas with a scale of 1:3960. The second plan was prepared
extracting the area of core Dhaka and its adjoining areas from the first plan. The motive behind the second plan was to depict
the fast expanding high density core Dhaka more vividly.
The master plan report contents can broadly be classified into two-development proposals and implementation measures.
Development proposals were set under nine sectors-
1. Transport and Communication
2. Public Building
3. Population
4. Housing
5. Education
6. Open Space
7. Commercial and Shopping
8. Industry
8. Utility Services
Following master plan proposals, necessary administrative, institutional and legal measures were suggested for
implementation of the master plan.
Apart from Dhaka, a separate master plan was prepared for Narayanganj, which was industrially and commercially one of the
most thriving towns of that period.
10. Urban Development Directorate Planning
Initiative
After inception UDD prepared large number
of layout plans for housing estates and
upashahars at district level for HSD.
It provided planning services to the then
Housing and Settlement Directorate (now
National Housing Authority) which
implemented all those plans.
11. RTDA’s First Planning Endeavour
After its inception in 1976, RTDA made its the first
attempt of city planning in 1984, in collaboration with
UDD and technical assistance by UNV.
A rudimentary draft city plan was prepared in 1984,
but it was never finalised. However, RTDA followed
land use zoning of the draft plan for many years to
offer planning permission to prospective developers.
12. UDD’s New Drive for Urban Planning
During early eighties a radical change was made by the government in the national administrative set up by converting the
mahakumas into 64 districts and upgrading thanas as upazilas with local government status.
Since
To make the upazila shahar as the focal point of regional development , UDD Since 1983 UDD prepared 392 master/land
use plans for ziland upazila shahars.
But these plans remained virtually as paper plans as no attempt was made by the government to execute them.
UDD still continuing its drive for planning, but in the same old style. Neither does it has capacity to implement the plans nor
does it make any arrangement for implementation by other agencies.
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is primarily responsible for rural infrastructure development. Later on it
was also charged with the responsibilities of infrastructure development in urban local government areas. It undertook
planning of many municipal towns left out by UDD. But the initial efforts were not very successful. From mid 2000 a new drive
is on by LGED to prepare master plans for pourashavas under UGIIP (urban governance) projects.
13. New Style of Planning
The early city plans followed the post World War II British master plan style.
These plans were rigid and did not consider the socio-economic issues of urbanisation in depth.
The Town and Country Planning Act 1968 of Britain introduced a new planning style called
Development Plan with new form, content and procedure.
It created a two tier hierarchical planning system comprising structure plan and subsequent local
plan, together forming the development plan.
Structure plan being a broader and more flexible of plan at strategic level, while local plan to be
more certain, pertinent and detailed at local level. Such a system was also promoted by UN
Habitat during 1980s.
In 1991 with UNDP assistance, RAJUK and CDA together launched a new urban planning project
for their respective cities where the above system of planning was adopted with slightly modified
form.
For Dhaka a two tier planning system-Structure Plan and Detailed Area Plan- was proposed. As
the project ended abruptly without preparing the detailed area plan, the consultant prepared what
is called the urban area plan suggesting interim planning measures for the main city area. The
measures were to be followed till preparation of the detailed area plan.
14. After that, all other cities and towns started to follow the above
planning system in a little modified form.
The new urban planning system adopted by other cities and
towns of Bangladesh was a three tier hierarchical system-
Structure Plan, Master Plan and Detailed Area Plan.
In the new system, keeping the British style structure plan
intact in form, the local level plan was renamed as detailed
area plan. Apart from that, the earlier master plan/land use
plan with its old style and form was inserted as a second
hierarchy in between structure plan and detailed area plan.
15. Structure Plan, Master Plan and Detailed Area Plan BY RAJUK and CDA
In 1991 RAJUK and CDA together with UNDP technical assistance launched a new
planning project to replace their old and the expired master plans.
The project aimed to prepared structure plan and detailed area plan. But the project
could not proceed beyond 1995 for dearth of finding by UNDP. The project had to be
shut down without preparing the detailed area plan, the most important component of
the planning hierarchy.
Detailed Area Plan BY RAJUK and CDA
In 2004 RAJUK and CDA undertook projects to prepare detailed area plans for its
entire area under DMDP, to be completed within two years. However, after long delay
the project has been completed in 2009. CDA also completed its detailed area plans
in the same year.
16.
17. Structure Plan, Master Plan and
Detailed Area Plan By KDA
In 1997 Khulna Development Authority (KDA), to replace its old and expired master plan,
launched a new planning project called Structure Plan, Master Plan and Detailed Area
Plan for Khulna City.
The planning project had three components- structure plan. master plan and detailed area
plan. The project prepared the structure plan and master plan in totality, but detailed area
plans were prepared in three samples. Three sample detailed area plans were prepared to
replicate them for other areas later on.
RTDA’s New Style Planning
RTDA (RDA) in early 2000 undertook Structure Plan, Master Plan and Detailed Area
Plan for Khulna City in line with KDA. It, however, due to ToR bindings, prepared detailed
area plans for its entire area. The project was completed in 2004.
18.
19. Ongoing Planning Project
Detailed Area Plan by KDA
In 2010 KDA launched a DAP project,
which is expected to be completed in
2013.
The plan covers about 181.59 sq.km
(44,872.70 acres) acres of earlier master
plan area.
20. Pourashava Planning by LGED
LGED undertook two town planning
projects in 2007.
UTDP : 221 Upazila Shahar Planning
DTIDP: 25 Zila Towns Planning
Work of all the Planning Activities Going on
21. From 2012 RAJUK has been implementing a new planning project to
prepare a new Structure Plan to replace the Structure Plan prepared
in 1996. The project titled,
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
is funded by Asian Development Bank
The project scheduled to be completed by 2014