4. Mid Term Topics
● Objectives of urban planning. Various theories of land
use pattern
● Types of plans and planning, planning elements,
planning and its relationship with other professions.
● New trends in planning, functions of professional
planners.
● Satellite town and garden city
● Issues related to inner city urban design and
emergence/up-gradation of squatter settlements.
● Role of transportation in urban planning, Factors
affecting transportation
● Travel demand modelling, trip generation, trip
distribution, modal split, level of service analysis,
intelligent transport system
5. Final Term Topics
● Land use cover and land use, Land use and environment, factors
affecting land use analysis, Research methods in urban planning
● The process of land use suitability analysis- a practical example.
● Energy & water conservation planning & management, climate
change, urban heat islands,
● Introduction to renewable energy technologies, rainwater
harvesting.
● Solid waste management (source, types, physical and chemical
properties, Collection, transport,
● Recycling options and efficiency and disposal), Introduction to
integrated solid waste management, Current situation and trends in
Pakistan.
● General introduction to history of architecture;
Emergence/Development of Islamic Architecture.
● Influence of various Geographical, Climatic, Religious, Social,
Historical and other factors.
7. TLAs
● Course grading (TLAs)
○ Session work to be submitted within
deadline
■ Assignments x2
■ Quizzes x2
○ Mid term exam
○ Final term exam
○ Class participation
● Mandatory at least 75% attendance
8. Readers are Leaders!! Books
● Xinhao Wang, Rainer von Hofe, ed. (2007)
Research Methods in Urban and Regional
Planning. 1st ed. Tsinghua University Press and
Springer.
• John M. Levy, ed. (2017) Contemporary Urban
Planning. 11th ed. Routledge.
• Banister Fletcher, ed. (1905) A History of
Architecture-on the Comparative Method 5th
ed. Bradbury, Agnew & Co.
• R.G. Gupta, ed. (1983) Planning & Development
of Towns. 1st ed. South Asia Books.
9. Readers are Leaders!! Reference Books
● Alfred D. F. Hamlin, ed. (1909) A Text-book of the
History of Architecture. 7th ed. Longmans, Green & Co.
● Eric Damian Kelly, ed. (2010) Community Planning - An
Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan. 2nd ed. Island
Press.
● Peter Hall, ed. (2014) Cities of Tomorrow - An
Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design
Since 1880. 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell.
● Peter Hall, ed. (2002) Urban and Regional Planning. 4th
ed. Routledge.
● Robert Riddell, ed. (2004) Sustainable Urban Planning -
Tipping the Balance. 1st ed. Blackwell Publishing.
10. Topics
● What is planning
● Community/Regional/Urban/Town planning
● Urban planners
● Why Urban Planning
● A planned city
● Terms and definitions
11. What is planning?
• Plan (noun): ‘a physical representation of
something’ – as for instance a drawing or a map;
or it can mean ‘a method for doing something’;
or ‘an orderly arrangement of parts of an
objective’.
• Planning: making of an orderly sequence of
action that will lead to the achievement of a
stated goal. Its main techniques will be written
statements, statistical projections, mathematical
representations, quantified evaluations and
diagrams illustrating relationships between
different parts of the plan.
12. Community/Regional/Urban/Town
Planning
• It is the planning to shape and guide the physical
growth of a town to meet various needs as social,
cultural, economic, recreational etc. and to provide
healthy living conditions for all walks of life, ultimately
bringing social and economic urban
wellbeing/development.
• To keep balance between environment and society, and
urban development.
• It is simply impossible to think of urban planning
without some spatial representation –a map/drawing.
13. Community/Regional/Urban/Town
Planning
It is a balance between…
● Better housing – open/agricultural lands
● Higher car ownership – public transport,
and a decent environment
● Segregating factory zones – local
factories nearby homes
● Issues may be related to land use,
economic development, transportation,
environment, urban design, housing or
social equity.
15. Urban Planners
● The single most common educational background is
formal training in planning.
○ City Planning
○ Urban and Regional Planning
○ Urban Infrastructure Planning
● Department of Urban and Regional
Planning, University of Peshawar
● National Institute of Urban
Infrastructure Planning, UET Peshawar
16. Urban Planners
● Effective/Good planners must have
knowledge of
○ economics & statistics,
○ civil engineering (transportation
engineering, water supply and
sanitation engineering),
○ data handling (programming &
data processing),
○ GIS & RS, and
○ law (pertaining to land use and
environment).
○ Political dealing and public
communication skills
17. Why Urban Planning?
● Communities are constantly exposed to development and
population growth.
● Rather than reacting to these changes, most
communities choose to control and guide their growth
through planning.
● Urban planning makes the growth of a town in a
harmonized and controlled manner just like a living
organism.
● Without such planning, our cities quickly become
inefficient and uninviting for residents and businesses
alike.
24. Terms and Definitions
● Hamlet: it is usually a rural settlement which is
too small to be considered a village. Having
population less than 100.
● Village: it is a small settlement usually found in a
rural setting. It is generally larger than a hamlet but
smaller than a "town". Having population not
greater than 2500.
● Town: it is a human settlement larger than a village
but smaller than a city. It has at least 300
inhabitants per km2.
25. Terms and Definitions
● City: it is a relatively large and a permanent
settlement. Cities generally have complex
systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage,
housing, and transportation. The concentration
of development greatly facilitates interaction
between people and businesses, benefiting both
parties in the process.
● A city is distinguished from a town in such a way
that a city has a particular administrative, legal,
or historical status based on local law. A city has
>1,500 inhabitants per km2.
26. Terms and Definitions
● Conurbation: Once a city expands far enough to
reach another city, this region can be deemed as
conurbation. It is a region comprising a number of
cities, large towns, and other urban areas that,
through population growth and physical expansion,
have merged to form one continuous urban and
industrially developed area.
27. Terms and Definitions
● Urban area: it is characterized by higher
population density (i.e. number of people per unit
land) and vast human features in comparison to
areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be suburbs,
cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not
commonly extended to rural settlements such as
villages and hamlets.
● Rural area/countryside: it is a geographic area
that is located outside towns and cities. These
are areas that have low population density.
28. Terms and Definitions
● Commuter town: it is an urban community that is
primarily residential, from which most of the workforce
commutes out to earn their livelihood.
● Suburb: A separate residential community within
commuting distance of a city.
● Exurb: The ring of prosperous communities beyond the
suburbs that are commuter towns for an urban area.
29. Terms and Definitions
● Metropolis/Metropolitan area: it is a big city that
usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities
have numerous business commuters travelling to urban
centers for employment. It refers to a region consisting
of a densely populated urban core and its
less-populated surrounding territories, sharing
industry, infrastructure, and housing.
● Megalopolis: it is a large conurbation or a megacity,
where two or more large cities have sprawled outward
to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis.
30. Terms and Definitions
● Urban centre/Downtown/CBD: it is the
commercial and business center of the
metropolis in which people from all walks
of life can live and work. Jinnah Avenue and
Blue Area in Islamabad.
