Writing is an attempt to briefly describe the context, role and importance of town planning in shaping the human settlements and make them more livable, sustainable and making value addition to human living and working.
Comprehensive Development of Amritsar- Need for A Planning and Urban Develop...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper was written when Amritsar development Authority was not created and Amritsar Master Plan was in evolution. Paper was written primarily to focus on the need of creating a dedicated agency for promoting the planned development of Amritsar Metroplis. Paper is being published by adding the post srcipt in the already published text
The writeup on Chandigarh is the preface written for the book; Chandigarh-- A City of Two Plans’. Any professional looking for the book may please mail the a dress for sharing the book.
Chandigarh remains most misunderstood and manipulated city, facing numerous challenges and crisis. Known to be city of crisis. Chandigarh was conceived in crisis, born in crisis, grown in crisis and continues in crisis of population, poverty, politics and pollution. Despite all these crises, Chandigarh remains a role model in the domain of urban planning, architecture, urban design, landscaping and urban management. Assuring minimum quality of life even to the poorest of poor and offering basic amenities of life, Chandigarh remains the only city in the country, providing minimum two room accommodation, piped water supply, water borne sewerage, and sanitation system, metaled roads, assured electric supply etc. to all the residents of the city. Known for experimentation and commitment of the professionals including, architects, town planners and engineers, who worked tirelessly, has made Chandigarh, one of the finest planned and developed cities, locally and globally, in the post -independent period. Despite limitations and constrains imposed by the non-availability of adequate financial resources, state of art construction technologies, construction machinery etc, Chandigarh showcased how profession of architecture, town planning and engineering can be effectively leveraged to create one of the finest examples of human settlement.
Town planning - A Tool to Promote Holistic Development of Human settlementsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Town planning aims to promote planned development of human settlements through various tools and processes. It involves studying existing settlements, demographics, land use, infrastructure, and environment to identify issues and opportunities. Town planners then prepare proposed plans and policies to guide future growth, land use, housing, transportation, amenities, economy, heritage preservation, and phasing of development. The goal is to make settlements more livable, productive, and sustainable while ensuring public welfare through inclusive and sustainable planning.
Redefining master plans to promote smart and sustainable cities JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans/ Development Plans, used as the most potent weapon by the town planner, to promote planned and orderly development has done more damage than good to the cities. Consuming large span of time, involving lot of manpower and requiring considerable resources, master plans has made planners chase the development instead of leading the development. Rigidity of master plans, based on defining the use of every piece of land, has made the master plans irrelevant, irrational and illogical in the face fast changing urban dynamics. Master plans, prepared for a period spanning over two decades, try to freeze the city. As planners, when we do not know our own future, what competency, capacity, expertise and capability we have to define the future of the cities. In the process, majority of cities have been suffering from illegal, sub-standard, haphazard and unplanned growth. Master plans have accordingly, emerged as the major road block in promoting planned urban development and making cities sustainable . For promoting planned development and making city growth both rational and dynamic, focus of planning should be on redefining and putting in place a new order of urban planning, development options and management strategies besides suggesting new format of Master Plans to make cities smart, more humane, equitable, just, efficient, productive, sustainable and providers of assured quality of life to all existing and future urban residents including poorest of the poor.
Planning and development options for Peri-urban areasJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper is an attempt to look into periphery, its role and importance in planned development, roadblocks facing its development and suggesting options for rationalising its growth
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans have traditionally focused on rigid land use planning, but this has made cities inflexible and unable to adapt to dynamic urban growth. It has also promoted unequal and unsustainable development. There is a need to redefine master plans to make cities more smart, sustainable, and equitable. New master plans should be flexible, community-oriented, and focus on transit-oriented compact development, energy efficiency, and inclusiveness. They should involve a variety of experts and stakeholders and use new technologies to guide sustainable urban form and development over time rather than rigidly defining land uses. The goal is to minimize urban problems and make cities higher quality places for all residents.
Paper is an attempt to look at the Indian urban settlements in terms of their planning, designing, travel, buildings etc, identify problems they have and options which can be leveraged to make them more effective, efficient, livable, productive and sustainable
As integral part of human history, cities have emerged as great places to live, work and do business. Cities symbolise the dreams, hopes and aspirations of society. Driving infrastructure and technologies, cities are fast becoming hub of economic and technical innovations. Dictating economy, generating employment, determining quality of life, promoting ideas and innovations besides providing quality infrastructures, cities remain crucial to human growth, development and happiness. Despite distinct advantages, cities also represent chaos, disorder, dualities and contradictions. Polarised cities, showing great contrasts of wealth and poverty, lack capacity, capability and will to meet basic needs of shelter, healthcare, education, water and sanitation. In the process, majority of urban residents are being marginalised with quality of life fast becoming nightmare for people opting for making cities and towns, as their preferred place of residence. Population, poverty, pollution and exclusion have emerged the hallmarks of Indian urbanisation. As consumers of enormous energy /resources and generators of large waste, ecological footprints of cities are growing very fast, promoting green- house gas emissions and global warming. With urban population projected to reach 590 million in 2030, greatest challenge before parastatal agencies, professionals and administrators remains, how to harmonise the urban growth with quality of life and make cities great , happy and smart place to live and work. If genesis of problems of climate change, global warming, rising temperature, ozone depletion and rising carbon footprints is in cities then solution for such problems are also embedded in cities. Search for solutions to make cities safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable would fall in the domain of rationalising prevailing planning, development and management practices; re-defining new order of urban planning, ; leveraging technology; rationalising travel; promoting governance and re-defining design strategies for built environment.
Comprehensive Development of Amritsar- Need for A Planning and Urban Develop...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper was written when Amritsar development Authority was not created and Amritsar Master Plan was in evolution. Paper was written primarily to focus on the need of creating a dedicated agency for promoting the planned development of Amritsar Metroplis. Paper is being published by adding the post srcipt in the already published text
The writeup on Chandigarh is the preface written for the book; Chandigarh-- A City of Two Plans’. Any professional looking for the book may please mail the a dress for sharing the book.
Chandigarh remains most misunderstood and manipulated city, facing numerous challenges and crisis. Known to be city of crisis. Chandigarh was conceived in crisis, born in crisis, grown in crisis and continues in crisis of population, poverty, politics and pollution. Despite all these crises, Chandigarh remains a role model in the domain of urban planning, architecture, urban design, landscaping and urban management. Assuring minimum quality of life even to the poorest of poor and offering basic amenities of life, Chandigarh remains the only city in the country, providing minimum two room accommodation, piped water supply, water borne sewerage, and sanitation system, metaled roads, assured electric supply etc. to all the residents of the city. Known for experimentation and commitment of the professionals including, architects, town planners and engineers, who worked tirelessly, has made Chandigarh, one of the finest planned and developed cities, locally and globally, in the post -independent period. Despite limitations and constrains imposed by the non-availability of adequate financial resources, state of art construction technologies, construction machinery etc, Chandigarh showcased how profession of architecture, town planning and engineering can be effectively leveraged to create one of the finest examples of human settlement.
Town planning - A Tool to Promote Holistic Development of Human settlementsJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Town planning aims to promote planned development of human settlements through various tools and processes. It involves studying existing settlements, demographics, land use, infrastructure, and environment to identify issues and opportunities. Town planners then prepare proposed plans and policies to guide future growth, land use, housing, transportation, amenities, economy, heritage preservation, and phasing of development. The goal is to make settlements more livable, productive, and sustainable while ensuring public welfare through inclusive and sustainable planning.
Redefining master plans to promote smart and sustainable cities JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans/ Development Plans, used as the most potent weapon by the town planner, to promote planned and orderly development has done more damage than good to the cities. Consuming large span of time, involving lot of manpower and requiring considerable resources, master plans has made planners chase the development instead of leading the development. Rigidity of master plans, based on defining the use of every piece of land, has made the master plans irrelevant, irrational and illogical in the face fast changing urban dynamics. Master plans, prepared for a period spanning over two decades, try to freeze the city. As planners, when we do not know our own future, what competency, capacity, expertise and capability we have to define the future of the cities. In the process, majority of cities have been suffering from illegal, sub-standard, haphazard and unplanned growth. Master plans have accordingly, emerged as the major road block in promoting planned urban development and making cities sustainable . For promoting planned development and making city growth both rational and dynamic, focus of planning should be on redefining and putting in place a new order of urban planning, development options and management strategies besides suggesting new format of Master Plans to make cities smart, more humane, equitable, just, efficient, productive, sustainable and providers of assured quality of life to all existing and future urban residents including poorest of the poor.
Planning and development options for Peri-urban areasJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper is an attempt to look into periphery, its role and importance in planned development, roadblocks facing its development and suggesting options for rationalising its growth
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Master plans have traditionally focused on rigid land use planning, but this has made cities inflexible and unable to adapt to dynamic urban growth. It has also promoted unequal and unsustainable development. There is a need to redefine master plans to make cities more smart, sustainable, and equitable. New master plans should be flexible, community-oriented, and focus on transit-oriented compact development, energy efficiency, and inclusiveness. They should involve a variety of experts and stakeholders and use new technologies to guide sustainable urban form and development over time rather than rigidly defining land uses. The goal is to minimize urban problems and make cities higher quality places for all residents.
Paper is an attempt to look at the Indian urban settlements in terms of their planning, designing, travel, buildings etc, identify problems they have and options which can be leveraged to make them more effective, efficient, livable, productive and sustainable
As integral part of human history, cities have emerged as great places to live, work and do business. Cities symbolise the dreams, hopes and aspirations of society. Driving infrastructure and technologies, cities are fast becoming hub of economic and technical innovations. Dictating economy, generating employment, determining quality of life, promoting ideas and innovations besides providing quality infrastructures, cities remain crucial to human growth, development and happiness. Despite distinct advantages, cities also represent chaos, disorder, dualities and contradictions. Polarised cities, showing great contrasts of wealth and poverty, lack capacity, capability and will to meet basic needs of shelter, healthcare, education, water and sanitation. In the process, majority of urban residents are being marginalised with quality of life fast becoming nightmare for people opting for making cities and towns, as their preferred place of residence. Population, poverty, pollution and exclusion have emerged the hallmarks of Indian urbanisation. As consumers of enormous energy /resources and generators of large waste, ecological footprints of cities are growing very fast, promoting green- house gas emissions and global warming. With urban population projected to reach 590 million in 2030, greatest challenge before parastatal agencies, professionals and administrators remains, how to harmonise the urban growth with quality of life and make cities great , happy and smart place to live and work. If genesis of problems of climate change, global warming, rising temperature, ozone depletion and rising carbon footprints is in cities then solution for such problems are also embedded in cities. Search for solutions to make cities safe, resilient, inclusive and sustainable would fall in the domain of rationalising prevailing planning, development and management practices; re-defining new order of urban planning, ; leveraging technology; rationalising travel; promoting governance and re-defining design strategies for built environment.
Redefining Master Plans to Promote Smart and Sustainable CitiesIRJET Journal
This document discusses redefining master plans to promote smart and sustainable cities. It begins by noting that traditional master plans based on rigid land use planning have made cities inflexible and unsustainable, ignoring urban dynamism. The document argues for a new approach to master planning that makes cities more humane, equitable, efficient, and provides a good quality of life for all residents. It discusses how global urbanization trends show most of the world's population now lives in cities, and cities in India are growing rapidly without proper planning. The challenges of meeting housing, infrastructure, and service needs in a sustainable way are discussed. The document concludes that India must harmonize urban growth and development through effective urban planning to make cities smart and rational as
Defreezing master plans to create better master plansJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries look at,critically and objectively, the present system of preparing master plans/ development plans in India and suggests strategies and methodology to make it more rational, focused and user friendly by changing its intent, contents, scope and methodoloy
Redefining Planning Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Urban SettJitKumarGupta1
Urbanisation in developing economies is fast emerging as a process of transfer of rural poverty to urban environment, leading to concentration of misery; creating distortions and emergence of numerous imbalances and problems. Accordingly, urban settlements are suffering from improper and haphazard development, absence of basic infrastructures and services, lack of housing, high degree of visual and environmental degradation and uncontrolled traffic etc. The cumulative effect of these factors is the degradation of quality of life in urban settlements and large number of subsidies required to keep them operational. Indian urbanization is characterized by urbanization of population, urbanization of poverty, urbanization of pollution and urbanization of environment.Looking at the existing scenario, all evidences suggest that despite best of the efforts of Planners to contain the population and limit and regulate the growth of large cities, they continue to grow and expand at an alarming pace; despite best of the efforts to promote planned growth, haphazard and unplanned development has emerged as the order of the day; despite best efforts made to contain slums, their number and size are growing much faster; despite pursuing the objective of ensuring quality of life to all, majority of urban dwellers are facing deprivation and lack of access to housing, basic amenities and facilities resulting in constant degradation of living environment. Thus, wide gaps have emerged over the years between what is planned and what actually comes on the ground.The dualities and contradictions emerging in the settlement scenario accordingly call for having a closer look at the very mechanism of city planning, development and management. It also calls for evaluating the concepts and systems, which have been followed in the past, for promoting planned growth of human settlements and have resulted in high level of distortions emerging in settlement planning and development mechanism. Since the existing systems and concepts have resulted in widening the gap between planning and development and have failed to achieve the goal of planned growth, surely it calls for their substitutions by some innovative concepts and systems, which would remove emerging distortions, dualities and contradictions in the settlement planning and make them rational and orderlu.
Designing for smart and Inclusive Cities in indiaJitKumarGupta1
Making cities Smart remains an illusion/ mirage and a fallacy in this world, which is illogically and irrationally being chased and promoted by politician, administrators and people in the power. How can cities be made Smart, both conceptually and physically, when cities are marked by dualities and contradictions, when it cannot take care of its stakeholders; Create ownership among them; provide them basic infrastructures, amenities and services; assure them appropriate employment and economic options; provide them with reasonable shelter; ensure healthy living. Cities cannot be made Smart till poverty continue to rule the cities; where planning remains marginalized/diluted; where multiplicity of agencies continue to operate and rule in contradiction to each other; where decision made remain mired with subjectivity; where there is total lack of ownership; where leadership has no understanding of the city growth and development and where manpower deployed remain inadequately qualified to understand and address the issues of urbanization. Cities would require more focus and will need care and caution, provided with the input of professionals who can lead the cities to make them more livable. I think need is to move from and focus on promoting livability rather than smartness. How can we achieve the objective of livability, should remain the agenda for all professionals and stake holders involved with making cities Smart.
Strategies for Promoting Good Governanace at Local Level urban g overnance (1...JitKumarGupta1
This document discusses strategies for improving urban governance at the local level in India. It notes that while Indian cities are major economic drivers, rapid urbanization has created challenges for service delivery. Key issues include poor urban governance, with state governments controlling local bodies; a historical low priority of urban development; weak capacities of urban local bodies; a mismatch between local body responsibilities and resources; and the presence of multiple overlapping agencies. The document argues for reforms to decentralize power to local bodies and strengthen their administrative, financial, and technical capacities to improve urban planning and service delivery.
Rationalizing the Planned Growth of Urban India through Regulating the Sub-d...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Land, despite being a gift of nature, is being grossly misused, abused , manipulated and traded like a commodity for generating largest financial dividends for both parastatal agencies and individuals. Land is globally used for providing platform for all human driven activities, based on living, working, culture of body/ mind and travel. Limited availability, coupled with large number of human beings trying to source land, has invariably created large demand for land resource for human consumption. Land, in urban context, is required for meeting the specific needs of urban dwellers for residential, commercial, institutional, recreational, travel& traffic purposes besides providing space for infrastructures , amenities, services, trade and commerce etc. Land in urban context remains under large demand and command high price due to concentration of large population in small physical area, with stakeholders making competing claims.
Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and occupation of urban land. This pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused, based on a strategy of sub-division of the land, dictated by the economic forces prevailing in the market. Irrational and ineffective public policies of urban planning and land sub-division, devoid of prevailing ground realities, have turned out to be incompatible with the demands of urban expansion, leading to large scale un-authorized and illegal sub-division of land. In order to make city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all urban centres are made to focus on eliminating the culture and practices promoting un-authorized/illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the country and restoring the glory of land resource.
LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN THE STATE OF PUNJAB- INTERFACE BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS OF TO...JitKumarGupta1
Indian believes in high traditions of democracy and accordingly, is characterized by multiplicity of laws. With focus on subject specific laws, one can see multiplicity laws. Each law tries to overtake other law, when they relate to the same subject. Sometimes there exists lot of overlapping and contradictions in the legal framework. Since India legal system remain bureaucratic and institutional focused under each law, focus of bureaucracy remains to create more laws and more space number for creating institutions and jobs for the bureaucracy. Despite India , as a nation accepting the role and importance of Urban local Bodies in 1972, when 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, was enacted, still states were passing laws in 1996 to create separate/additional/ independent agencies operating in the domain of urban planning, development and management, ignoring to empower urban local bodies to take up that role. Accordingly, state scenario in urban development in the country remains multi-faceted with existence of large number of departments and agencies operating in the urban development, which dilutes the intent of planned and orderly development in human settlements.Prevailing urban development scenario indicates existence of not only large number of urban laws but also large number of urban development agencies. However, there exists concentration of development agencies operating in the large urban areas but these agencies are conspicuous by their absence in the small urban settlements. Our capacity to create rational, effective, efficient, compact planning framework and agencies for effectively implementing of planning framework, will hold the key for future planned growth of urban settlements .Write-up focuses on the State of Punjab which has put in place a legal regime providing for promoting comprehensive and integrated development of urban and rural area through the preparation of Regional Plans and Master Plans in 1996 . In the year 2006, the entire set of provisions regulating the preparation of Regional Plans and Master Plans were critically reviewed, rationalized, simplified and modified drastically to streamline the procedure by making amendments eliminating/ minimizing number of vital steps involving public participation, involving urban local bodies; printing existing landuse plans etc. First master plan came into operation in 2006, after a decade of launching the Act. Till now more than 35 cities have bbeen covered unde such plans out of 216 urban settlements recorded in 2011 census.
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Issues and options for raising Resources for Financing infrastructure in Ur...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Considering role and importance of infrastructure, Paper makes an attempt to bring out the options to raise resources to make available urban infrastructure to all in urban India
Planning and development options for Peri-urban areasJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document discusses planning and development options for peri-urban areas. It notes that urban boundaries are often static and do not account for growth, leading development to occur haphazardly outside city limits. It argues for the importance of properly defining and planning peri-urban areas to integrate them rationally into urban development. Key points include: peri-urban areas experience rapid growth and lack services; their extent depends on the size of the mother city; a legal framework is needed to regulate peri-urban development; and strategies should involve delineating peri-urban limits and creating a planning system for these areas.
Re-inventing and Re-defining Urban Planning for Promoting Sustainable Mega Ci...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper make an attempt to understand the planning related issues and options for the mega cities with focus on capital City of Lahorein Pakistan, its growth and development post 1947 and the options which can be leveataged to make the city sustainable and livable. Paper looks at the good practices used in the planning of capital city of Chandigarh and also at the option of decentralising these cities. Look at the size, economic role and its criticality in the development of the state/region, --suggestion has been made to plan and devlop these mega cities in the regional/ national context.so as to enable them to play their designated role. However, these cities need to be made resilient to make them withstand any manmade/natural disasters. These cities despite their criticality and importance remain diffficult to manage and govern.
Redefining Planning Through Planning EducationJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation tries to showcase the relationship between quality of planning Education and quality of education, challenges faced by the profession and option which need to be exercised to make education more qualitative and responsive the challenges faced.
Presentatio tries to bring out context of the cities in the overall development of communities and nations, and the manner cities are being subjected to devlopmental and population pressure. As engines of economic growth cities are known to have environmental, ecological and infrastructure implications besides becoming the major propeller of global warming and climate change. Looking at the role and importance of cities in alleviating poverty, pollution and numerous other growing dualitues and contradictions, presentation focusses on how to make growth and development of cities more rational, sustaianble, inclusive, safe abd resilient.
PLANNING THE CAPITAL CITY OF CHANDIGARH : PROBLEMS, LESSONS AND PROSPECTSJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document summarizes the planning of Chandigarh city and discusses its current problems and prospects. It notes that while Chandigarh was initially planned well with sectors, amenities, and protections, population growth and economic forces have led to issues. Key problems include overpopulation, uneven population distribution, residential and commercial slums, uncontrolled village growth, and degraded green spaces. Coordinated regional planning and management of land use, transportation, housing, and amenities is needed to address these issues and ensure Chandigarh's orderly development.
Decarbonising Human Settlements through Regional Planning, Peri-urban Devel...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Text tries to draw the attention of the professionals engaged in planning and designing of cities to the role of peri-urban areas in promoting the future planned growth of urban areas. Text also defines that cities need to be seen , planned , designed, developed and visuliased in the larger context not cofined to arbitrary physical boundaries defined by polotical and economic factors. Cities need to be seen in the larger context of the region and accordingly planned and devloped in the larger context of peri-urban araes/regional context, to stay safe, rational and sustainable. Neglecting rural areas at the cost of promoting urban development can be both irrational, illogical and fraught with danger of having lopsided developmnet of the urban areas. in the developing countries. Making cities carbon neutral will be possible only if the urban / rural areas and peri -urban areas are integrated within a unified planning, devlopment and management framework.
Paper focus on the status of urban local bodies in the Indian context, their role and importance in making urban areas more livable and sustainable, roadblocks hampering their operational efficiencies and options to make them vibrant institutions of governance
Strategies for Development of Peri Urban Areas in a Developing Country A Case...ijtsrd
The world is experiencing a new phenomena – peri urbanism. As the population is increasing and cities are infrastructurally upgraded, there has been a gradual shift of the urban population from the more developed regions to the less developed ones, aimed at availing free open spaces to live, grow and setting up new communities. This movement of urban population in large numbers has led to formation of peri urban spaces. With no such boundary to define the peri urban spaces, these areas are the outskirts of the urban centres which are to be explored. A detailed understanding about the dynamics of urbanisation is necessary for coping with the negative effects poised by urban sprawling on the peri urban areas. Being designated as one of the first smart city of India, Bhubaneswar city is experiencing formation of urban sprawls around the major urban nodes. In order to further examine the need for policy formulation, a detailed study has been done to understand the demographic, economic and social profile of the inhabitants residing within the fringe areas of Bhubaneswar. The emperical approach of the paper is based on the study of the infrastructure and development issues of the area using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The final findings of the study includes the issues, problems and recommendations to be applicable for a planned and controlled development in the peri urban areas of Bhubaneswar. Leena Sahoo | Swapna Sarita Swain "Strategies for Development of Peri-Urban Areas in a Developing Country (A Case Study of Bhubaneswar)" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd42350.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comengineering/architecture-and-planning/42350/strategies-for-development-of-periurban-areas-in-a-developing-country-a-case-study-of-bhubaneswar/leena-sahoo
Paper looks critically and objectively, the role and importance of Master Plans in Rationalising the development of cities, issues created and options to make it a better master plan
This document provides an overview of urban development in India. It discusses the trends of urbanization in India including the rapid growth of urban populations and cities since the 1930s. It covers the patterns of urbanization including the causes of migration to urban areas. The document also examines the costs of urbanization, prospects for future urbanization, resources for urban development, urban planning, management needs, and the growth trends of urban populations in India.
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to relook at the master plan in its prevalent form , content and procedure and tries to redefine the agenda for making it a positive tool for leveraging the sustainable development of urban settlements
Strategies for Planning Smart and Sustainable CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Smart city remains a misnomer. No city on planet earth can claim to be smart. Experts are still searching the soul of smart city in order to precisely define it .Unfortunately smart city has become a money spending/spinning exercise for few individuals/agencies. Entire concept of smart city has been made technology centric, minimizing the role and importance of human beings. In addition, role of Town Planners in smart city has been totally marginalized. How can a city be made smart without intervention of planning and planners. Smart city as a concept has been copied globally to promote operational efficiency and productivity of the cities , with minimum concern for human growth and development. Addressing issue of poverty and making city livable for all should be the agenda of urban growth and development. In the face of homeless people , absence of basic amenities and facilities essential of human living, making city’s smart will be a fallacy and prove to be counterproductive. Cities do not exist in isolation and require the support of rural hinterland. Dealing cities alone by excluding villages will invariably lead to lopsided growth of cities because genesis of majority of urban ills has roots in the neglect of the rural areas. Urban areas must do handholding for the rural areas for synergizing mutual strength and to usher a new era of rational growth. Smart city concept must focus on empowering human being/ living, making them more skilled, create options for meeting the basic human needs and removing the curse of poverty and unemployment.
Redefining Master Plans to Promote Smart and Sustainable CitiesIRJET Journal
This document discusses redefining master plans to promote smart and sustainable cities. It begins by noting that traditional master plans based on rigid land use planning have made cities inflexible and unsustainable, ignoring urban dynamism. The document argues for a new approach to master planning that makes cities more humane, equitable, efficient, and provides a good quality of life for all residents. It discusses how global urbanization trends show most of the world's population now lives in cities, and cities in India are growing rapidly without proper planning. The challenges of meeting housing, infrastructure, and service needs in a sustainable way are discussed. The document concludes that India must harmonize urban growth and development through effective urban planning to make cities smart and rational as
Defreezing master plans to create better master plansJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries look at,critically and objectively, the present system of preparing master plans/ development plans in India and suggests strategies and methodology to make it more rational, focused and user friendly by changing its intent, contents, scope and methodoloy
Redefining Planning Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Urban SettJitKumarGupta1
Urbanisation in developing economies is fast emerging as a process of transfer of rural poverty to urban environment, leading to concentration of misery; creating distortions and emergence of numerous imbalances and problems. Accordingly, urban settlements are suffering from improper and haphazard development, absence of basic infrastructures and services, lack of housing, high degree of visual and environmental degradation and uncontrolled traffic etc. The cumulative effect of these factors is the degradation of quality of life in urban settlements and large number of subsidies required to keep them operational. Indian urbanization is characterized by urbanization of population, urbanization of poverty, urbanization of pollution and urbanization of environment.Looking at the existing scenario, all evidences suggest that despite best of the efforts of Planners to contain the population and limit and regulate the growth of large cities, they continue to grow and expand at an alarming pace; despite best of the efforts to promote planned growth, haphazard and unplanned development has emerged as the order of the day; despite best efforts made to contain slums, their number and size are growing much faster; despite pursuing the objective of ensuring quality of life to all, majority of urban dwellers are facing deprivation and lack of access to housing, basic amenities and facilities resulting in constant degradation of living environment. Thus, wide gaps have emerged over the years between what is planned and what actually comes on the ground.The dualities and contradictions emerging in the settlement scenario accordingly call for having a closer look at the very mechanism of city planning, development and management. It also calls for evaluating the concepts and systems, which have been followed in the past, for promoting planned growth of human settlements and have resulted in high level of distortions emerging in settlement planning and development mechanism. Since the existing systems and concepts have resulted in widening the gap between planning and development and have failed to achieve the goal of planned growth, surely it calls for their substitutions by some innovative concepts and systems, which would remove emerging distortions, dualities and contradictions in the settlement planning and make them rational and orderlu.
Designing for smart and Inclusive Cities in indiaJitKumarGupta1
Making cities Smart remains an illusion/ mirage and a fallacy in this world, which is illogically and irrationally being chased and promoted by politician, administrators and people in the power. How can cities be made Smart, both conceptually and physically, when cities are marked by dualities and contradictions, when it cannot take care of its stakeholders; Create ownership among them; provide them basic infrastructures, amenities and services; assure them appropriate employment and economic options; provide them with reasonable shelter; ensure healthy living. Cities cannot be made Smart till poverty continue to rule the cities; where planning remains marginalized/diluted; where multiplicity of agencies continue to operate and rule in contradiction to each other; where decision made remain mired with subjectivity; where there is total lack of ownership; where leadership has no understanding of the city growth and development and where manpower deployed remain inadequately qualified to understand and address the issues of urbanization. Cities would require more focus and will need care and caution, provided with the input of professionals who can lead the cities to make them more livable. I think need is to move from and focus on promoting livability rather than smartness. How can we achieve the objective of livability, should remain the agenda for all professionals and stake holders involved with making cities Smart.
Strategies for Promoting Good Governanace at Local Level urban g overnance (1...JitKumarGupta1
This document discusses strategies for improving urban governance at the local level in India. It notes that while Indian cities are major economic drivers, rapid urbanization has created challenges for service delivery. Key issues include poor urban governance, with state governments controlling local bodies; a historical low priority of urban development; weak capacities of urban local bodies; a mismatch between local body responsibilities and resources; and the presence of multiple overlapping agencies. The document argues for reforms to decentralize power to local bodies and strengthen their administrative, financial, and technical capacities to improve urban planning and service delivery.
Rationalizing the Planned Growth of Urban India through Regulating the Sub-d...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Land, despite being a gift of nature, is being grossly misused, abused , manipulated and traded like a commodity for generating largest financial dividends for both parastatal agencies and individuals. Land is globally used for providing platform for all human driven activities, based on living, working, culture of body/ mind and travel. Limited availability, coupled with large number of human beings trying to source land, has invariably created large demand for land resource for human consumption. Land, in urban context, is required for meeting the specific needs of urban dwellers for residential, commercial, institutional, recreational, travel& traffic purposes besides providing space for infrastructures , amenities, services, trade and commerce etc. Land in urban context remains under large demand and command high price due to concentration of large population in small physical area, with stakeholders making competing claims.
Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and occupation of urban land. This pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused, based on a strategy of sub-division of the land, dictated by the economic forces prevailing in the market. Irrational and ineffective public policies of urban planning and land sub-division, devoid of prevailing ground realities, have turned out to be incompatible with the demands of urban expansion, leading to large scale un-authorized and illegal sub-division of land. In order to make city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all urban centres are made to focus on eliminating the culture and practices promoting un-authorized/illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the country and restoring the glory of land resource.
LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN THE STATE OF PUNJAB- INTERFACE BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS OF TO...JitKumarGupta1
Indian believes in high traditions of democracy and accordingly, is characterized by multiplicity of laws. With focus on subject specific laws, one can see multiplicity laws. Each law tries to overtake other law, when they relate to the same subject. Sometimes there exists lot of overlapping and contradictions in the legal framework. Since India legal system remain bureaucratic and institutional focused under each law, focus of bureaucracy remains to create more laws and more space number for creating institutions and jobs for the bureaucracy. Despite India , as a nation accepting the role and importance of Urban local Bodies in 1972, when 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, was enacted, still states were passing laws in 1996 to create separate/additional/ independent agencies operating in the domain of urban planning, development and management, ignoring to empower urban local bodies to take up that role. Accordingly, state scenario in urban development in the country remains multi-faceted with existence of large number of departments and agencies operating in the urban development, which dilutes the intent of planned and orderly development in human settlements.Prevailing urban development scenario indicates existence of not only large number of urban laws but also large number of urban development agencies. However, there exists concentration of development agencies operating in the large urban areas but these agencies are conspicuous by their absence in the small urban settlements. Our capacity to create rational, effective, efficient, compact planning framework and agencies for effectively implementing of planning framework, will hold the key for future planned growth of urban settlements .Write-up focuses on the State of Punjab which has put in place a legal regime providing for promoting comprehensive and integrated development of urban and rural area through the preparation of Regional Plans and Master Plans in 1996 . In the year 2006, the entire set of provisions regulating the preparation of Regional Plans and Master Plans were critically reviewed, rationalized, simplified and modified drastically to streamline the procedure by making amendments eliminating/ minimizing number of vital steps involving public participation, involving urban local bodies; printing existing landuse plans etc. First master plan came into operation in 2006, after a decade of launching the Act. Till now more than 35 cities have bbeen covered unde such plans out of 216 urban settlements recorded in 2011 census.
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Issues and options for raising Resources for Financing infrastructure in Ur...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Considering role and importance of infrastructure, Paper makes an attempt to bring out the options to raise resources to make available urban infrastructure to all in urban India
Planning and development options for Peri-urban areasJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document discusses planning and development options for peri-urban areas. It notes that urban boundaries are often static and do not account for growth, leading development to occur haphazardly outside city limits. It argues for the importance of properly defining and planning peri-urban areas to integrate them rationally into urban development. Key points include: peri-urban areas experience rapid growth and lack services; their extent depends on the size of the mother city; a legal framework is needed to regulate peri-urban development; and strategies should involve delineating peri-urban limits and creating a planning system for these areas.
Re-inventing and Re-defining Urban Planning for Promoting Sustainable Mega Ci...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper make an attempt to understand the planning related issues and options for the mega cities with focus on capital City of Lahorein Pakistan, its growth and development post 1947 and the options which can be leveataged to make the city sustainable and livable. Paper looks at the good practices used in the planning of capital city of Chandigarh and also at the option of decentralising these cities. Look at the size, economic role and its criticality in the development of the state/region, --suggestion has been made to plan and devlop these mega cities in the regional/ national context.so as to enable them to play their designated role. However, these cities need to be made resilient to make them withstand any manmade/natural disasters. These cities despite their criticality and importance remain diffficult to manage and govern.
Redefining Planning Through Planning EducationJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation tries to showcase the relationship between quality of planning Education and quality of education, challenges faced by the profession and option which need to be exercised to make education more qualitative and responsive the challenges faced.
Presentatio tries to bring out context of the cities in the overall development of communities and nations, and the manner cities are being subjected to devlopmental and population pressure. As engines of economic growth cities are known to have environmental, ecological and infrastructure implications besides becoming the major propeller of global warming and climate change. Looking at the role and importance of cities in alleviating poverty, pollution and numerous other growing dualitues and contradictions, presentation focusses on how to make growth and development of cities more rational, sustaianble, inclusive, safe abd resilient.
PLANNING THE CAPITAL CITY OF CHANDIGARH : PROBLEMS, LESSONS AND PROSPECTSJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document summarizes the planning of Chandigarh city and discusses its current problems and prospects. It notes that while Chandigarh was initially planned well with sectors, amenities, and protections, population growth and economic forces have led to issues. Key problems include overpopulation, uneven population distribution, residential and commercial slums, uncontrolled village growth, and degraded green spaces. Coordinated regional planning and management of land use, transportation, housing, and amenities is needed to address these issues and ensure Chandigarh's orderly development.
Decarbonising Human Settlements through Regional Planning, Peri-urban Devel...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Text tries to draw the attention of the professionals engaged in planning and designing of cities to the role of peri-urban areas in promoting the future planned growth of urban areas. Text also defines that cities need to be seen , planned , designed, developed and visuliased in the larger context not cofined to arbitrary physical boundaries defined by polotical and economic factors. Cities need to be seen in the larger context of the region and accordingly planned and devloped in the larger context of peri-urban araes/regional context, to stay safe, rational and sustainable. Neglecting rural areas at the cost of promoting urban development can be both irrational, illogical and fraught with danger of having lopsided developmnet of the urban areas. in the developing countries. Making cities carbon neutral will be possible only if the urban / rural areas and peri -urban areas are integrated within a unified planning, devlopment and management framework.
Paper focus on the status of urban local bodies in the Indian context, their role and importance in making urban areas more livable and sustainable, roadblocks hampering their operational efficiencies and options to make them vibrant institutions of governance
Strategies for Development of Peri Urban Areas in a Developing Country A Case...ijtsrd
The world is experiencing a new phenomena – peri urbanism. As the population is increasing and cities are infrastructurally upgraded, there has been a gradual shift of the urban population from the more developed regions to the less developed ones, aimed at availing free open spaces to live, grow and setting up new communities. This movement of urban population in large numbers has led to formation of peri urban spaces. With no such boundary to define the peri urban spaces, these areas are the outskirts of the urban centres which are to be explored. A detailed understanding about the dynamics of urbanisation is necessary for coping with the negative effects poised by urban sprawling on the peri urban areas. Being designated as one of the first smart city of India, Bhubaneswar city is experiencing formation of urban sprawls around the major urban nodes. In order to further examine the need for policy formulation, a detailed study has been done to understand the demographic, economic and social profile of the inhabitants residing within the fringe areas of Bhubaneswar. The emperical approach of the paper is based on the study of the infrastructure and development issues of the area using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The final findings of the study includes the issues, problems and recommendations to be applicable for a planned and controlled development in the peri urban areas of Bhubaneswar. Leena Sahoo | Swapna Sarita Swain "Strategies for Development of Peri-Urban Areas in a Developing Country (A Case Study of Bhubaneswar)" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-4 , June 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.compapers/ijtsrd42350.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.comengineering/architecture-and-planning/42350/strategies-for-development-of-periurban-areas-in-a-developing-country-a-case-study-of-bhubaneswar/leena-sahoo
Paper looks critically and objectively, the role and importance of Master Plans in Rationalising the development of cities, issues created and options to make it a better master plan
This document provides an overview of urban development in India. It discusses the trends of urbanization in India including the rapid growth of urban populations and cities since the 1930s. It covers the patterns of urbanization including the causes of migration to urban areas. The document also examines the costs of urbanization, prospects for future urbanization, resources for urban development, urban planning, management needs, and the growth trends of urban populations in India.
Redefining master plans for smart and sustainable citiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to relook at the master plan in its prevalent form , content and procedure and tries to redefine the agenda for making it a positive tool for leveraging the sustainable development of urban settlements
Strategies for Planning Smart and Sustainable CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Smart city remains a misnomer. No city on planet earth can claim to be smart. Experts are still searching the soul of smart city in order to precisely define it .Unfortunately smart city has become a money spending/spinning exercise for few individuals/agencies. Entire concept of smart city has been made technology centric, minimizing the role and importance of human beings. In addition, role of Town Planners in smart city has been totally marginalized. How can a city be made smart without intervention of planning and planners. Smart city as a concept has been copied globally to promote operational efficiency and productivity of the cities , with minimum concern for human growth and development. Addressing issue of poverty and making city livable for all should be the agenda of urban growth and development. In the face of homeless people , absence of basic amenities and facilities essential of human living, making city’s smart will be a fallacy and prove to be counterproductive. Cities do not exist in isolation and require the support of rural hinterland. Dealing cities alone by excluding villages will invariably lead to lopsided growth of cities because genesis of majority of urban ills has roots in the neglect of the rural areas. Urban areas must do handholding for the rural areas for synergizing mutual strength and to usher a new era of rational growth. Smart city concept must focus on empowering human being/ living, making them more skilled, create options for meeting the basic human needs and removing the curse of poverty and unemployment.
Strategies for Planning Smart Cities in IndiaJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This document discusses strategies for planning smart cities in India. It outlines that as urban populations grow, cities must be planned to promote quality of life, efficiency, and sustainability. New approaches to urban planning are needed that are people-centric, flexible, and promote inclusion, equity and opportunities for all residents. Cities must also be planned compactly and vertically to reduce resource use, pollution and travel needs. Smart buildings that are energy efficient through design and technology will be important for making cities sustainable.
This document provides an overview of advancements in city design. It discusses how city design has evolved over time from organically growing cities to more planned cities with modern technology and aesthetics prioritized. The document outlines the table of contents and abstract of an independent study on advancements in city design. It covers the background and history of city development, highlights elements of good urban design like transportation and facilities, and discusses how modern cities are pursuing optimized land use and architectural aesthetics to improve livability. The research aims to analyze disparities in city designs and define standards for infrastructure and aesthetics to promote urban prosperity.
Paper is an attempt to define the role and importance of smart cities in the context of state of art planning and design to promote happiness among the residents and stakeholders of the city .
This document provides an overview of an introductory course on urban and regional planning. It covers 5 parts:
1. The beginnings of planning and urbanism, discussing early civilizations.
2. An overview of urban and regional planning, including definitions of planning, why it is needed, and the planning process.
3. The role of planners in the built environment as umpires, technocrats, economic planners, and environmental guardians.
4. Urban and regional planning in Malaysia, including relevant acts and plans as well as public participation.
5. Sustainable planning principles like smart growth, new urbanism, and their integration into decision making.
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas. Rapid urban growth has both positive and negative impacts on town planning. Positively, it can increase economic production and provide better opportunities and services. However, it can also lead to issues like urban sprawl, traffic, and pollution as megacities struggle to provide infrastructure for large populations. Effective town planning requires statutory development plans that provide strategies and proposals to manage growth, as well as regional plans that focus on balanced development across connected urban and rural areas.
Planning Smart cities- Concepts and Practices.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Planning remains universal for making cities growth rational and logical. In the absence of planned development, cities cannot be made to grow in an orderly manner. Planners have been making cities different and distinct using different agenda for planning and development of cities. Currently planners are making cities safe, resilient, sustainable and livable. Many nations are vouching to make cities smart. Smart city is not a new concept .It has been followed globally to improve the quality of living and promote operational efficiency and productivity of the cities. It is an attempt to make cities more livable, sustainable and for creating a brand image to attract investment and make them a tourist destination. Globally , smart cities are characterized by high degree of environmental consciousness; using information technology to promote energy/ resources efficiency; creation of knowledge infrastructure; promoting sustainable economic development and high quality of life; ensuring wise management of natural resources through participatory action. According to Forbe, the structure of smart cities will have to be built on eight pillars involving: ‘smart governance, smart energy, smart buildings, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart healthcare and smart citizens. Based on detailed studies and in depth analysis made of the most successful case studies globally, as how to transform cities into great places to live and make a city great, Mckinsey’s suggests three pronged strategies involving, achieving smart growth, do more with less and win support for change. Considering the entire gamut of urban settlements , a city can be made Smart only if it is planned smart, developed smart, operated smart, financed smart and governed smartly .
Urban planning concept,principles and elementes TeshagerMengesha
This document summarizes key elements of urban planning, including:
1) Elements of urban planning such as communications, built-up areas, open areas, public utility services, and public amenities.
2) Principles of urban planning including green belts, housing, transportation, recreation, zoning, public buildings, and road systems.
3) Concepts of urban planning like the Garden City Concept which proposed self-contained settlements that balance urban and rural lifestyles.
town planning on SlideShare, one of the lecture of town planningZubairRahoojo
Town planning is the process of managing land resources and controlling existing and new developments to ensure future requirements are met. It involves analyzing social, economic, and physical characteristics of an area to establish development objectives and coordinate land use with infrastructure. The goals of town planning include removing slums, providing housing and basic services, organizing transportation and communication, allocating space for industry, parks, and public facilities, and arranging for education, health services, and sanitation. As urban populations grow rapidly, town planners must create sustainable and resilient communities that accommodate diverse human needs.
APPLICATION OF GIS FOR URBAN PLANNING amp MANAGEMENT.pdfWendy Belieu
This document discusses the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for urban planning and management. It begins by defining geomatics and its various components like remote sensing, GIS, GPS, which can be used to balance human and natural resource development. The document then discusses how rapid urbanization in India has led to problems with uncontrolled growth and impacts infrastructure and services. It emphasizes the role of urban planning in facilitating sustainable and efficient development. The key components and stages of urban planning processes like master plans, development plans and projects are described. The role of GIS in activities like land use mapping, analysis of urban growth, infrastructure planning, and future planning is highlighted. In summary, the document outlines how GIS and its spatial analysis capabilities
Promoting Urban Environment Through Eco- CitiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to define the role and importance of environmentally sustainable cities to promote urban environment , minimises carbon footprints and reduce global warmng
Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land uses, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area than an individual city or town. A region can be defined based on homogeneous physical characteristics or human activities within clearly defined boundaries. There are three main types of regions - formal, functional, and vernacular. Formal regions have official boundaries like states or districts, while functional regions are defined by economic interdependencies between places. Planning regions are used for comprehensive development and depend on the country's multi-level planning system, using generally administrative regions as planning units.
-Redefining and Rationalising Development Controls - Copy.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Globally recognised as engines of physical, social , economic growth and development, cities have been valued to be the future of humanity and communities. Housing major proportion of population, generating large employment; making major contribution to the economy; and providing quality infrastructure besides supporting and innovating state of art technologies, cities remain relevant and important for defining the agenda for growth and development of any state and communities. However, despite having large number of positivities; cities are also known for its dualities, contradictions, positivities and negativities. If cities have been promoting prosperity, they have also been at the forefront of promoting poverty, pollution, unplanned, haphazard, sub-standard development, climate change and global warming. Looking holistically, problems related to climate change , global warming and rising carbon footprints, environment and bio-diversity, can be largely attributed to the manner in which cities are being planned , manage and governed and buildings are being designed, constructed and operated. In the process, cities, as manmade entities, are fast emerging as embodiment of unplanned , haphazard and sub-standard development.
Globally ,it has been recognised that majority of urban ills have genesis in the typologies of Development Controls , made applicable at the local level for regulating the sub-division of land, determining land uses ; planning of the cities and designing, construction and operation of the built environment. In order to promote planned development, cities have been trying to experiment, invent, revise, review and rationalise the Development Controls periodically.
Capital cities like Chandigarh have clearly demonstrated the role and relevance of Development Controls in ushering an era of state of art urban development and creating quality-built environment. Chandigarh has also showcased that if Development Controls are not reviewed and revised periodically, they can prove to counter- productive and become a perpetual liability for the city and its development.
Considering the role , relevance and importance of Development Controls in making urban development rational and sustainable, there is an urgent tp look critically, objectively and holistically, at the context, genesis, intent and contents of different Development Controls made applicable in the urban settings in general and Capital city of Chandigarh in particular.
Providing a rational, realistic, effective and efficient framework for making Development Controls, more transparent, objective, community focussed, effective , efficient, rational and productive will remain critical to promote planned development and make cities more sustainable and better place to live and work.
Comact City as an Option for Making Urban India more Sustainable and LivableJitKumarGupta1
Cities and towns remain critical in chartering and scripting the development trajectory of any community/nation. Structural transformation of the economy, sustaining high rates of economic growth and realization of economic potential is largely contingent on the efficacy and efficiency of urban settlements and rationalization of the process of urbanization. Well-managed, urbanization is known to fosters social and economic advancement and improved quality of life. However, cities are globally facing greater threat and challenges in terms of growing number of urban residents living in informal settlements , inadequate urban services, climate change; global warming; exclusion and rising inequality and poverty; rising insecurity; growing migration, rising global carbon emission. The current models and framework/approach to urbanization and urban planning remains highly unsustainable. Majority of Indian cities lack planning, capacity and preparedness to manage and counter effectively the challenges associated with rapid and massive urbanization. Accordingly, new agenda will be essential and critical to defined /effectively address the emerging challenges and take advantage of the opportunities offered by urbanization. The new urban agenda should promote human settlements that are planned, designed and managed to be environmentally sustainable; socially inclusive and economically productive. Compact city, as a role model of urban planning and development, offer enormous opportunities and options, to make cities more effective and efficient intense dense, efficient. Compact city is also known for its distinct quality of offering enormous opportunities to make cities more sustainable, socially interactive, walkable , cost-effective, land -efficient, productive, socially and environmentally, easy to develop/maintain. Accordingly, appropriate urban planning, development and management framework needs to be put in place and made operational on priority to make compact city model a distinct reality.
All cities remain unique and distinct. No two cities are similar. Each city has its strength , weakness , threats and opportunities. Each city has a different and distinct gene, fabric and social structure. Cities are manmade entities, always evolving and devolving, never defined never finite. They are anti-thesis to nature and natural environment. Rapid urbanizations remain the greatest threat to environment and ecology. From the narratives given, it can be visualized that making cities great places to live and work, remains both complex, difficult and daunting task, requiring out of box thinking, adopting multiple` approaches and innovating state of art options for planning , development and management of cities. Rapid pace and massive influx of population in the urban areas offers enormous opportunities and challenges to innovate, experiment, evolve and devolve to the planners, architects, engineers, professionals, developers, administrators, politicians, urban local bodies, parastatal agencies, private sector and other stakeholders to make cities great entities and best place for living and working; meeting all basic human needs; promoting ease of doing business; promoting sharing; creating enabling environment and spaces for all human operations. How effectively and efficiently we meet these challenges and make best use of opportunities offered in the urban domain, shall hold the key to the sustainability, growth and development of the communities and nations. All cities can be made great places to live and work, depending upon how residents, local communities and all stakeholders commit, involve, innovate and experiment to achieve the objective. Planners hold the key to make cities sustainable but they need to empower themselves , innovate and find out of box solutions and work with people/stakeholders based on the prevailing ground realities. Planning and designing cities and villages will require working on the same platform, synergizing their potential and marching in the same direction. Without involving and planning villages, cities will have little chance to become livable and productive for all.
Urban planning is a technical and political process focused on developing land use and infrastructure in urban areas. It determines how people will live and work in a given area through orderly community development. Urban planning aims to systematically improve decision making and is highly political. Local governments are primarily responsible for urban planning and development in the Philippines according to the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992. Planners come from various backgrounds but most have a master's degree in city or urban planning. They work to anticipate and solve problems in the public interest through advising decision makers. Political awareness and strong communication skills are invaluable traits for planners.
Urban planning and urban governance invariably remain people centric having prime concern/focus on looking at/ promoting the welfare of the people, improving their social, physical, economic and environmental conditions besides improving quality of life. Both are mandated to create supportive/enabling conditions and environment to help people to perform their basic functions involving living, working , care of body & spirits and circulation, in a most effective / efficient manner. Accordingly urban planning and urban governance remain interlinked /integrated, and have close relationship. No good urban governance can exist in isolation/ without the input of good and rational planning. Looking at the entire context of good urban governance, it can be fairly concluded that effective urban planning holds the key to good urban governance. Poor urban governance has its genesis in poor urban planning. For enabling urban planning to play its desired and designated role in urban governance, it will be essential that operational mechanism of existing pattern of urban planning is critically looked into, reviewed, revised and re-defined to made it more responsive to the emerging urban dynamism/challenges. Unfortunately, in India, role of urban planners has been diluted and marginalized and has never been given appropriate recognition. Limited numbers of planning institutions have contributed to restricting the number of qualified professionals. With urban centres holding the key, future growth and development of the cities will be contingent largely upon the proficiency, efficacy and efficiency of ‘Planning Profession and Professionals’. However, , for planners/planning to play its ordained role, they have to be made more responsive , professionally competent, having capacity /expertise to understand /appreciate the complexities of urban growth and development, based on prevailing ground realities, and evolving appropriate options. .Planning tools will also require review and redefining to make them more effective and efficient.
The document discusses institutional set-up and planning processes in India at various levels - state, district, metropolitan, and regional. It outlines the following key points:
1) Most states have Town and Country Planning Departments but they are often headed by non-planners, resulting in delays and lack of vision.
2) Around 85,000-90,000 planners will be needed across India to adequately staff planning processes at various levels.
3) Districts are proposed as the primary planning region due to their administrative structure and inclusion of rural and urban areas. Metropolitan areas crossing multiple districts require coordinated regional planning.
4) Various laws like the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification and Special Economic Zone
Compact city as an Option for Making Indian Cities Smart and SustainableJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper, written jointly with Ar Anoop Sharma from SMVDU Jammu, tries to look holistically at the prevailing pattern of India urbanization and planning and designing of Indian cities. Paper tries to underline the problems faced by cities in terms of environment, pollution, land , slums, traffic& transportation, housing,services etc and tries to suggest solutions looking at the advantages offed by the compact cities in terms of optimizing land, minimising travel/pollution, making cities development cost-effective, efficient and promoting walking instead of using fossil fuel propelled mechanical transportation. to make cities more livable and sustainable, resilient, safe and inclusive
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Heritage Conservation.Strategies and Options for Preserving India HeritageJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the role , relevance and importance of built and natural heritage, issues faced by heritage in the Indian context and options which can be leveraged to preserve and conserve the heritage.It also lists the challenges faced by the heritage due to rapid urbanisation, land speculation and commercialisation in the urban areas. In addition, ppt lays down the roadmap for the preservation, conservation and making value addition to the available heritage by making it integral part of the planning , designing and management of the human settlements.
Role and Relevance of Architects and architecture in SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
This brief text on Role, Relevance and importance of Architects and profession of Architecture in making this world and human settlements more livable, climate responsive and sustainable has been prepared as commitment of the professionals and profession of Architects on this World Environment Day ; June 5th , 2024 , with the hope that profession would be understood, valued ,appreciated and empowered in the right context for enabling it play its designated role in making built environment qualitative, cost-effective, energy-efficient, eco-friendly, safe and sustainable.
Bridging gap between resources and responsibilities at Local level.JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Text refers to need, role, relevance and importance of empowering urban local bodies by bridging gap between resources available and responsibilities bestowed, for enabling ULBs to operate and function as institutions of local governance more effectively and efficiently.
Construction Industry Through Artificial Intelligence -.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Considering the role, relevance and importance of construction sector in promoting economy, generating employment and creating wealth besides providing infrastructures and amenities, there is need to make the sector more effective, efficient, productive and sustainable. Driven manually, construction sector remains in the slow lane of creating quality built environment which are cost-effective, energy efficient, least consumers of resources and generators of waste. Artificial intelligence can help and empower the construction to make it more valuable, productive and qualitative besides supportive of environment and ecology. However, construction sector must be ready to co-operate and collaborate with IT industry to look for options and opportunities to make construction sector more qualitative and productive. Majority of urban ills and climate related issues can be resolved if Artificial intelligence can be embedded as integral part of the construction industry right prom planning, designing, construction, operation and management of the built environment and infrastructures. Communities and nations will save lot of valuable non-renewable resources if the construction sector is transformed from human led to technology led by the induction of Artificial intelligence. However, Construction industry has to search the areas where Artificial intelligence can be used effectively and intelligently.
Making Urban India a Role Model of Planned Urban Growth a.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Known for productivity, promoting economy, employment and innovations cities, when properly planned, rationally developed and professionally managed, have been labelled and recognized as engines of economic growth. Prosperity and urbanisation are known to have positive co-relation with rational urbanisation, leveraging growth and development of any community, city, state and region. In majority of developing countries, where urbanisation remains unregulated, forced largely by rural push and less by urban pull, cities invariably remain in crisis, crisis of population, crisis of poverty, crisis of development and management. Cities need to be cared ,incentivized, empowered and made more productive, effective, efficient and humane.
Redefining Globalization, urbanisation and LocalisationJIT KUMAR GUPTA
If cities are to made more livable, humane and productive, it is time that intent, contents and scope of globalization must be revisited and reviewed, both critically and objectively. Globalisation would need redefinition for promoting universality and inclusiveness among people and nations to have basic amenities and quality of life for all its residents , including poorest of the poor to lead a dignified life. Failure to redefine globalization, rationalise urbanisation, restore localization empowering poor and promoting universalisation and inclusivity; will invariably lead to making SDGs merely a paper exercise. In addition, making the world, cities and communities sustainable, livable, safe and inclusive, would remain merely a dream and a mirage, for future generations and communities, making planet earth as their preferred place of residence.
Knowing, Understanding and Planning Cities- Role and Relevance Physical Plan...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities are known for its complexities and operational inefficiencies. cities remain dynamic ,ever evolving, ever devolving, never static and never finite.
All cities remain different, distinct, unique and universal. No two cities are similar. Each city has its own strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Accordingly, problem faced by any city cannot be viewed, dissected, analyzed and enumerated, while sitting within the four walls of the air-conditioned rooms and by the so called intellectual sitting in the so called offices determining the future of cities and towns. Neither the cities can be made more rational by limited knowledge agencies providing consultancy to cities , states and nations.
For realistically and rationally understanding, analyzing the cities and having simple, cost-effective and quality solutions to the problems and challenges faced , Cities have to be walked through and concerns of the various communities have to be properly understood and appreciated.
Prime reason for inability and lack of capacity on the part of majority of physical planners, engaged in the art and science of planning, designing and developing the cities, to address the issues and challenges faced by cities , realistically and rationally, has genesis in the lack of understanding of the origin, growth and development of cities.
Lack of capacity in majority of town planners, has roots in the quality of education imparted and seriousness and commitment on the part of both teachers and taught involved. As it stands today, majority of institutions involved in imparting education in planning are being run on an ad-hoc manner and by proxy. Only few institutions have regular teachers and regular students. Majority of planning institutions are being run on proxy with proxy students and proxy teachers. Education system including curricula used for teaching, needs, review, revision and redefinition to make it more relevant to rational for addressing the issues and challenges faced by the cities and towns.
Land as a Resource for urban finanace- 24-1-23.pptJIT KUMAR GUPTA
PPt tries to brief Land, as a gift of nature, is being grossly misused, abused , manipulated Land is globally used for providing platform for all human driven activities, based on living, working, culture of body/ mind and travel.
Limited availability, coupled with large number of human beings trying to source land, has invariably created large demand for land resource for human consumption. Land, in urban context, is required for meeting the specific needs of urban dwellers for residential, commercial, institutional, recreational, travel& traffic purposes besides providing space for infrastructures , amenities, services, trade and commerce etc. Land in urban context remains under large demand and command high price due to concentration of large population in small physical area, with stakeholders making competing claims.Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and illegal occupation of urban land. Unregulated and regulated pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused. In order to make optimum use of land resource on 24x7x365; making city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all ULBs are made to focus on eliminating culture and practices promoting un-authorized/ illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the cities. Land needs to be effectively leveraged to generate resources for ULBs to make cities vibrant.
COST-EFFETIVE and Energy Efficient BUILDINGS ptxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Built environment is known for its capacity, capability, role, relevance and importance to change the quality of life of the occupants and communities. Presentation focuses on options which need to be leveraged to make buildings sustainable, cost-effective, energy efficient, resource efficient, qualitative over its entire life-cycle through designing, construction, operation. It calls for making buildings green and sustainable.
Making Buildings cost-effective , Energy Efficient ptxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation focuses on options which need to be leveraged to make buildings sustainable, cost-effective, energy efficient, resource efficient, qualitative over its entire life-cycle
Ppt briefs about role, relevance, importance of the rating systems applicable in India, criteria used in assessing
greeness, weightage allocated, , brief of how these rating systems are applied, parameters involved; weightage granted, levels of rating granted , incentives given by states for green rated buildings and brief of suggestions, how to make rating system more effective, efficient, objective and transparent.
The phenomenon of global warming remains more pronounced in the urban areas, for the reason cities house large concentration of people and activities in a small/compact urban space.Densely-built downtown areas tend to be warmer than suburban residential areas or rural areas.. UHI not only raises urban temperatures but also increases ozone concentrations because ozone is a greenhouse gas whose formation will accelerate with the temperature. Tokyo, an example of an urban heat island. Normal temperatures of Tokyo go up higher than those of the surrounding area. However, it needs to be understood and appreciated that climate change is not the cause of urban heat islands but it is causing more frequent and more intense heat waves which in turn amplify the urban heat island effect in cities. Major reasons for ever growing global warming and climate change can be attributed to the; Nature and natural; Human-Driven; population; Rapid Urbanisation; Irrational Urban planning; High Density; Inefficient Transportation ;Large generation/consumption of fossil fuel based Energy; Unsustainable Buildings; Polluting Industry & Manufacturing; Unsustainable Agriculture; Irrational Development; Large scale Deforestation; Lack of open spaces and individual life-choices;
Making and Unmaking of Chandigarh - A City of Two Plans2-4-24.pptJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation is a narrative of a
capital city- known for its innovative planning, designing, construction and management of a new capital . It briefs about the principles used in the planning and designing of city -by the first team of planners led by Albert Mayer and Mathew Nowicki-- followed by the second team led by Le- Corbusier, P Jenerette, Jane B Drew , Maxwell Fry. It also details about the various aspects of the city planning, planning of the sector as a neighbourhood, typologies of
various developmental controls used for regulating the construction of buildings. Innovations used for regulating the growth and development of periphery; redensification of city in case city exceeds its planned population of half a million, creating a narrative of city and periphery, innovative landscaping, defining an edict for the city to educate the future citizens of the capital city to safeguard the future growth and development besides lessons learnt from planning and designing the new cities.
Planning and Designing Green buildings-.issues, options and strategiesJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Affordability and sustainable development are considered anti-thesis across the world. Generally there exists conflict between the approach to sustainable built environment and affordable buildings. Sustainable development is considered more expensive. According to Middleton, ‘Sustainability and affordability aren’t mutually exclusive goals. It’s not about adding extra, but thinking more carefully about the design of buildings and incorporating technologies that can offset the rising costs of energy, water and other services. Affordability and sustainability are known to fit together perfectly’.
Through excellent design, buildings can be made more sustainable and affordable. Smaller the footprint of buildings, lower will be the upfront costs and embodied energy and lower shall be the running costs of buildings. Looking at the entire context of health, rising cost of amenities/services; Sustainable/Green designs are now being increasingly adopted, to make built environment more cost-effective and affordable. Considering the enormous amount of built environment to be created, India will have no option but to tread the path of sustainability and sustainable development in the built environment. Sustainable built environment would also help in and go a long way in achieving the majority of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the reason, built environment is known to be the largest consumer of energy, avoid wasteful use of resources and minimise generation of waste. Global sustainability will be largely contingent upon how effectively and efficiently we can make our buildings sustainable and qualitative through innovative/green design solutions based on local climate and culture, valuing site planning, embedding orientation, cross ventilation, using renewable/waste materials and involving state of the art building technologies.
_Neighborhood Planning in Capital City of Chandigarh- An Appraisal (2) - Copy...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Neighborhood as an idea, concept, option and strategy has been extensively used locally and globally by the Urban Planners to plan and decentralize cities, create cities within cities, promote self-contained communities and to make cities more humane, safe and socially vibrant. Neighborhood has also been used recently to define the city in terms of travel time - making 10/15 minutes city
Accordingly, large typologies of NH ,in terms of planning and designing , with varying shapes, sizes and contents have emerged in the urban context. Americans have used superblock and French using Sector for defining the neighborhood. Despite distinct advantages, holding high degree of relevance in urban and local area planning , NH planning has not been able to deliver the envisioned objectives of safety and social vibrancy. Cities in the process have been socially, economically and physically fragmented, leading to clear division of cities into different communities with little economical and social connectivity. Variance of planning and designing norms followed at NH and sub-neighborhood levels have promoted more dichotomy and contradictions with varying quality of life inducted at local level. Differential population and infrastructures have divided the city into the categories of high/low end NH units. Fabric and morphology of cities, in large cases, has been distorted with urban settlement emerging as a distinct social map of communities graded economically and socially,on the basis of area/location . In the process, the way NH planning concept has been used, neighborhood planning has emerged as an instrument of social and economic segregation/division. In fact in number of cases, concept has been used, misused, abused in intent and content to divide the cities into distinct social and economic layers. Instead of unifying , concept has led to division of cities.
Genesis of modern application of NH can be found in the planning and designing of Chandigarh where entire city fabric of capital city was woven around Sector as the basic unit of planning, concptulasied as self-contained and self-sustaining unit at the local level. However, the way sectors have been planned, it has led to dividing the cities into different and distinct communities. Individual status in Chandigarh can be judged from his/her residence. Concept of Sector has done more damage than good to the fabric of the city. Chandigarh is likely to face considerable problem in making city socially and economically cohesive/vibrant,. Sectors in Chandigarh remain anti-thesis to the basic concept of NH planning of safety, involving walkability, vehicular movement, putting commercial space in the centre. Considering role, relevance, importance and usability , NH needs to be planned, designed with care and caution, in order to make cities socially and economically vibrant, inclusive. NH planning deserves a new definition and approach to make it relevant and rational.
Reviewing, Revising and Redefining Master Plans and Development Plans to Ma...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Looking at its efficacy and efficiency, it can be seen and observed that Master Plans/ Development Plans have done more damage than good for the planned growth and development of the cities to which they have been made applicable. These plans have been violated with impunity both by the people, communities, cities and parastatal agencies; for the betterment/welfare of which these plans were prepared. These plans have been visualized as controller of development rather than promoters of development. Instead of planned development , these plans have been usherers of the unplanned development. These plans are known to be responsible for promoting large number of slums besides making quality of life poor for majority of the urban inhabitants. Cities under Master Plans are also known to promote exclusion rather than inclusion. Master Plans/Development Plans are known to promote prosperity for few and marginalize the large proportions of the local community by making them poor. Instead of catering to urban dynamism, Master Plans/Development Plans try to freeze the city, for next two decades, to which it is made to serve. Accordingly, these plans need to be reviewed , rationalised, revised and redefined to make them better Master Plans/Development Plans
Rationalizing the Planned Growth of Urban India- paper.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Rapid and uncontrolled growth in population experienced by urban areas has adversely impacted and generated considerable pressure on land resource in cities and towns , leading to large scale conversion, sub-division and illegal occupation of urban land. Unregulated and regulated pressure on land has largely been met by means of both formal/informal sub-division and development of land. Growth of the urban settlements and entire mechanism of urban planning and development remains land based/ land focused, based on a strategy of sub-division of the land, dictated by the economic forces prevailing in the market. Irrational and ineffective public policies of urban planning and land sub-division, devoid of prevailing ground realities, have turned out to be incompatible with the demands of urban expansion, leading to large scale un-authorized and illegal sub-division of land. In the process, valuable land resources, gift of nature, has been misused, abused and mutilated in this race of uncontrolled and irrational urbanisation. In order to make optimum use of land resource; making city planning, growth, development and management ,both rational. realistic, orderly and promoter of quality living, it will be critical and essential, that all urban centres are made to focus on eliminating the culture and practices promoting un-authorized/illegal sub-division of land for ushering an environment and era of planned urban development in the country.
Suggestion and Options for integrating villages. within the framework of the...JIT KUMAR GUPTA
Preparing Master Plans/Development Plans for any urban settlements, basically and essentially, involves declaring a planning area for which the said long term plans are prepared. Planning area invariably includes and involves, number of rural settlements, which comprise of the planning area besides the urban settlement. It has been observed that in majority of cases, while detailed studies and analysis are carried out of the urban settlements but villages in the study and analysis remain marginalized, diluted and muted. Despite the fact, villages have critical role in the rational development of the urban settlement, but in preparing Master Plans their role and relevance is not made part of the said plan. Accordingly, this text tries to bring out the typologies of villages falling in the planning area and the suggested framework to develop these villages in making Master Plans, better Master Plan. In order to improve Master Plan qualitatively, quantitively, both in intent, contents and scope, It will be appropriate that all the villages falling in the planning area must be studied , analyzed and made integral part of the final outcome of the proposals of Master Plan. In-fact one Chapter must be exclusively dedicated to detail out the issues faced by the Villages and options which can be leveraged to promote the rational growth of villages ,as an integral part of the long term development of the urban settlement , for which the Master Plan is being prepared. This will help not only in integrating the urban- rural settlements falling in the planning area, but would also go a long way in promoting and ensuring rational growth and development of the urban settlement, for which the Master Plan is being prepared.
Making cities Climate Responsive and SustainableJIT KUMAR GUPTA
“Decarbonization” of cities ,as an issue ,as an option and as a strategy , has been gaining currency in the parlance of; making planet earth livable and sustainable. “Decarbonization has been globally valued for keeping the global temperature below 1.5C, and achieving the agenda and goals defined in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, defined by UN for achieving universal sustainability. Despite distinct role and relevance, criticality and importance of decarbonization of cities has neither been properly understood and appreciated nor made integral part of the architectural practice and art and science of designing and construction of buildings. Consuming one -third of global energy (33%) and generating 39% of greenhouse gas emissions buildings have been considered as the major player in the domain of climate change and global warming. Since Architects and Architecture are
actively involved in the making and unmaking of buildings, accordingly it becomes important that planners and architects must play a significant role in making
cities and buildings least consumers of energy and generators of the minimum greenhouse gas emissions. This objective can be achieved if decarbonizing cities/buildings is made a distinct reality . Issue of decarbonizing the cities/buildings assumes importance for the reason, that world’s building floorspace is likely to be become double by the year 2060, with the addition of large number of newcities/ buildings due to rapid urbanization, population growth and economic development ; required for catering to
to the needs of additional population opting for urban living.
Managing Planning and Development of Citie- 26-2-24.docxJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Cities in India are known to be in perpetual crisis; facing numerous crises in terms of; crisis of rational growth, crisis of orderly and planned development; crisis of effective and efficient urban management; crisis of making provision of basic infrastructure and services; crisis of climate change; crisis of global warming; crisis of poverty, pollution and population and crisis of making human living and prevailing environment qualitative. These urban crises have genesis in the fact that cities in India, lack ownership, command, authority and lack of willingness to run and manage cities professionally and objectively. In majority of cases, cities in India are run by proxy. In terms of physical growth and development; large cities are marked by multiplicity of agencies claiming right/ownership of development over the urban areas, whereas smaller cities face absence of such ownership and are made to run, operate and function like orphans
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Town planning - A Tool to Promote Holistic Development of Human settlements
1. TOWN PLANNING
-a tool to promote planned development of Human
settlements
*Ar Jit Kumar Gupta
Introduction
With India heading on the path of rapid and massive urbanization, urban
centers are growing at a faster pace. Last census held in 2011, placed
level of urbanization at 31.1% with number of urban residents at 378
million spread over 7935 urban settlements. Even with low level of
urbanization, India ranks second among the urban systems in the world
after China. Estimates made globally have placed India’s urban
population at 591 million in 2031 and 750 million by 2051. Number of
metro-cities are estimated to increase from 53 to 67 by 2031 and ten
million plus cities would number 9 in 2051 as against 3 in 2011 and 5 in
2031, calling for more professionally trained planners to be involved in
rationalizing the orderly growth and development of urban centers in
India. Urban centers not only will house more population but would also
be the major economic driver of the country and generators of
employment. Globally urban centers have been the determinant of
national prosperity. However, this prosperity depends upon how well
planned and developed cities are. Planned development has been
found to be the major driver in making the cities more livable,
productive, effective and efficient. Accordingly promoting state of art
planning to ensure planned development has assumed importance,
With rapid growth and expansion , development and management of
cities is becoming highly complex and professional. Complexity of
planning is also emerging due to fast changing technologies and
economies both locally and globally. Cities are gaining momentum in
2. terms of their areas and extent of operation. Integration of societies and
economies of the world are extending the operational domain from city
to the regions, making the planning process all the more complex and
essential.
Urban India has under-performed as against the defined benchmarks
of proficiency because majority of cities are growing without having
input of planned development. Considering the need and importance
for promoting planned development, professionally trained town and
country planners are needed to usher an era of planned development
and management in this country by evolving new strategies and state of
art options. Accordingly, planning profession needs to be promoted on
priority in this country to provide required level of manpower to meet the
growing needs of planners and the planned development.
Planning professionals are also urgently needed keeping in view the
government agenda of developing initially 100 smart cities in the country
with an outlay of more than Rs 70,000 crores. The program is being
launched in a phased manner with the intent of making all urban centers
smart over a period of time. Planning and designing smart cities would
require the services of trained town planners and accordingly, it
becomes critical to create required professional town planners. In
addition government of India has also launched three more missions
and two yojnas focusing on urban areas which include; PMAY, Swatchh
Bharat Mission, NuLHM, SWM, AMRUT and HRIDAY, all requiring
the services of urban planners. In addition, agenda defined in 74th
Constitutional Amendment Acts, 1992, provides for urban/land use
planning besides 16 other functions to be given to urban local bodies,
which would require active involvement of town planning profession to
prepare schemes for planned development of the urban centers at the
local level. In addition, preparing District Development Plans and
Metropolitan Area Development Plans, would also require the active
and absolute involvement of planning profession to prepare such
documents. Master Plans are required to be prepared for promoting
planned development of urban centre ,which can only be prepared by
the physical planners. Considering the fact that large scale urban
development is being envisioned in India , role of town planning
profession will become critical.
3. Town Planning
Town planning is primarily and essentially a physical planning
process of planning of human settlements and related activities , both
urban, rural, based on defined norms and standards, involving all the
residents, identification and sub-division of land, its development,
allocating land use, defining parameters for built environment besides
defining amenities, facilities and infrastructure to be provided including
transportation, communications, distribution networks and the provision
of municipal services to residents and visitors. Town planning also
involves defining physical layout of human settlements. The
underlining concern for the entire process of planning remains to
promote larger public interest, promote human welfare, meet all current
and future basic needs of individuals, promote human efficiency and
productivity, creating enabling environment which permits holistic
development of individuals and communities, protect environment,
protecting heritage both natural and manmade,, make optimum use of
available resources on sustained basis besides providing security and
safety to individuals and communities . Town planning remains largely
an interdisciplinary field that includes art and science involving
architecture, urban design, engineering, sociology, landscaping,
housing, traffic and transportation, health & hygiene, history, geography,
culture, heritage, economics, statistics, demography, anthropology etc.
Town planning besides dealing with planning and development of urban
and rural planning also includes regional planning. Major tool for town
planners remains Regional Plans, Master Plans, Development Plans,
Zonal Plans, Layout Plans, Zoning Plans, Demarcation Plans etc
through which planning and development of human settlements, at
Regional, city and local level, are regulated. Regional Plans, Master
Plans/ Development Plans are essentially long term plans defining the
future growth of regions/cities, generally for a period of next two
decades. They are basically land based plans defining the use of land
falling within the planning area. Various land uses are the outcome of
existing population and the projected population of the region/ town
based on past trends besides existing trends of growth and
development of different land-uses. Land uses and amenities are
defined based on prescribed norms and standards, which are
essentially based on population and area. There is variance in different
4. standards adopted in different states. Ministry of urban Development
has also come out with Urban and Regional Development Plans
Formulation &Implementation( URDPFI) Guidelines, suggesting the
process, norms and standards of different aspects of Town Planning.
Planning tools of Master Plans/Development Plans have been subjected
to lot of criticism because of their rigidity and consuming large time for
plan preparation besides requiring large manpower and resources.
These plans have largely been called controllers of development rather
than promoters of planned development. Town Planning, as a process
is undergoing lot of change due to its recognized role and importance in
promoting sustainability, promoting economy, generating employment,
making cities vibrant and places of happening/innovations, conserving
environment, ecology and providing optimum conditions of living and
working conditions. Globally urban areas are occupying central stage
and town planning is viewed with lot of interest in rationalizing the
growth and development of human settlements in general and urban
settlements in particular. Indian government has also been focusing on
promoting planned development of urban settlements through various
urban related missions and yojnas, already enumerated above..
Definition
Considering the fact that planning of human settlements encompasses
large number of subjects, stakeholders and issues , accordingly Town
planning has been defined in numerous ways by different experts
depending upon their focus, approach and understanding. Few
definitions are enumerated below for understanding the intent, content
and scope of the profession.
It is the art and science of planning human settlements to make them
more productive, effective, efficient, livable and sustainable besides
providing optimum quality of life to its residents.
It is the art and science of sub-dividing land, allocation use to sub-
divided land, defining what could be built on different parcels based on
the larger goals of physical, socio- economic development of
communities and individuals, making settlement as their preferred
home
It is the art and science of ordering the use of land and siting of
buildings and communication routes so as to secure maximum degree
of economy, convenience and beauty
5. Town planning is the planning and design of all
the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make
them attractive and convenient for the people who live therein.
Town Planning is the Comprehensive planning of the physical
and social development of a town, including
the construction of facilities
A city should be built to give its residents security and happiness-
Aristotel
Objectives
The Objectives of the town planning are to;
-- promote larger public interest
-- plan for people and their happiness
-- promote quality of life of the residents
-- promote human welfare irrespective of cast, creed, age, sex, financial
status
-- create enabling environment to facilitate the meeting of basic human
need of living , working, care of body & spirit and circulation.
-- promote healthy living conditions
-- ensuring health, convenience and beauty
-- protect and promote the environment,
--improve public health, safety and security
--making available basic amenities/services/infrastructures
- increase choices available to each/every citizen
- respect nature and natural elements
--minimize adverse impact of physical development.
-- make human settlements sustainable
-- create opportunities for all of gainful employment
-- eliminate poverty
-- minimize mobility and promote accessibility
-- preserve natural resources
--Make optimum use of land and other resources
-- promote, protect and preserve heritage – both natural and manmade
- Creating value for city
6. Town Planning Involves;
Town planning involves carrying a detailed study of the settlement
fabric, structure and genesis in terms of its historical perspective, growth
and development. Study also includes its specific features in order to
understand the fabric of the city.It also involves a detailed
demographical study to understand the socio-economic features of the
population living therein , their specialized characteristics and past
trends of growth, in order to define the number of future population
which will live in the city in next 20 years. Planning also involves
carrying out physical, social, economic and environmental study of the
settlements which is being planned. It also involves preparing an
existing landuse map showing the planning areas, administrative
boundaries, physical features, land morphology/topography, different
shades of built up area, vacant areas, different land uses, slums,
industries, major commercial nodes, institutions/institutional areas,
parks/open spaces/play grounds, amenities/facilities, protected/forest
areas, road network, service network, transportation nodes, area under
different uses etc. In addition, it calls for carrying out SWOT analysis of
the settlement, so as to understand its strength, identify weaknesses,
opportunities it offers and threat it poses. Problems faced by city in
different aspects are identified and quantified systematically. Surveys
are also conducted to ascertain facts on different aspects in terms of
quantity and quality. Wider periodic consultation with all stakeholders
remain integral part of planning process, Based on studies made and
analysis carried out, town planning aims at preparing the final
proposals, based on a defined vision and mission, by producing the
proposed landuse plan. In addition, it includes a detailed report on the
study made, problems identified and the proposal for promoting planned
development.
Town planning, basically and essentially includes;
A. Planning
Reflecting the people's aspiration.
Ensuring highest quality of life.
Ensuring rational distribution of Population.
Rationalizing the land use planning.
Eliminating non- compatible land uses.
Eliminating subjectivity in decision making.
Defining the future vision for the human settlement.
7. Defining future shape and size of the city.
Defining location of different land uses, amenities, services etc
Defining hierarchy of all activities like commercial, infrastructure, health
care, education etc
Making human living more effective and effective.
Rationalizing the development of urban and rural areas falling within
planning area.
Creating self -sustaining communities.
Making informal sector integral part of the planning process
Defining land uses for existing and future population
Defining future population for quantification of different land uses
Defining the direction of future growth of the city
Preparing framework for the growth and development of the city -
master plan / development plans/layout plans/zoning/zonal plans
B. Development
Promoting Planned Development.
Eliminating the unplanned development.
Making urban Development orderly.
Taking care of current development of settlement.
Promoting sustainable development of human settlements.
Promoting development based on the proposals defined in the master
plan
C. Land
Optimizing use of urban land
Minimizing the use of land for urban development
Carrying out land suitability analysis
Providing land for different uses on prescribed norms and standards
Making land market more effective and efficient
Making available land at right cost in right quantity in right place and
right time
Minimizing the conversion of land from agriculture to non-agricultural
uses
Promoting the development of derelict land
D. Housing
8. Eliminating slums.
Providing adequate space for housing - present and future
Promoting affordable housing
Earmarking adequate space for informal housing.
Ensuring housing for all the residents of the city
Making cities slum free
Promoting all basic amenities/services in the residential area
Creating self-contained communities
Promoting multiple options for housing
Planning for rental housing/ transit housing
E. Amenities& Facilities
Identifying /quantifying different amenities/facilities in the city
Defining norms and standards for different amenities / facilities
Identifying existing gaps between demand and supply
Overcoming existing deficiencies in infrastructure
Mapping healthcare/education/entertainment facilities
Ensuring rational distribution of amenities / facilities across the city-
both quantitative/qualitative
Avoiding concentration /absence of amenities and facilities at different
places
Defining the network for amenities/facilities
Defining sourcing of water/ electricity etc
Identifying space for disposal of waste both- solid and liquid
F. Traffic &Transportation
Promoting accessibility rather than mobility
Planning for people not vehicles
Rationalizing the traffic and transportation.
Segregating inter and intra city traffic
Mapping existing mobility problems
Suggesting options for traffic and transportation both in short-term/
long-term perspective
Identifying the areas of congestion/accidents and provide solution
Defining solution to the parking
Rationalizing the mobility in the city
9. Re-ordering the priority of traffic planning with maximum focus on
pedestrianisation and least focus on individual cars
Promoting mass transportation
Adopting integrated approach for transportation
Defining the transportation network/nodes
Defining the hierarchy of traffic network
E. Environment
Making city environmentally vibrant
Mapping the existing status of environment
Identifying sources of pollution.
Identifying options for minimizing pollution.
Providing green spaces on the specified norms .
Identifying environmentally sensitive areas
Protecting /promoting the eco-sensitive areas
Identifying derelict/eco-sensitive areas in the city
Promoting green cover
Identifying water bodies and suggest approach for preservation
Segregating the industry area from residential uses
Creating city forests as part of city greening
G. Economy
Making city economically vibrant
Generating employment for all
Creating opportunities for both skill/unskilled manpower
Promoting economy/economic development of City
Making urban development self sustainable.
Generating resources for the infrastructure development in the city.
Creating enabling environment to attract investment
H. Heritage
Identifying /mapping city heritage
Classifying the heritage depending upon the importance
Suggesting strategies/ roadmap for the
preservation/conservation/promotion of heritage
10. Framing schemes/framework for the heritage development
Making heritage development integral part of planning process
Making heritage conservation mass movement
Evolving specific legal framework for heritage areas/zones.
Villages
Identifying villages within the planning area
Identifying villages falling in urbanisable area
Identifying villages falling in the urban areas
Making villages falling in the master plan area, integral part of urban
planning process
Defining specific strategies for different categories of villages based on
the study made and analysis carried out
Phasing
Quantifying the amount of development in the master plan
Dividing development into four distinct phases
Phasing made based on a time frame of 5 years periods- depending
upon the population projection made and area defined for development
Phasing priority defined on the basis of economy, integration, making
optimum use of available services and area/population to be served.
FUNCTIONS
Major functions performed by Town Planning Departments
generally include;:-
Providing technical advice on matters related to urban planning and
development
Aiding, assisting and advising the state government/ development
authorities/urban local bodies/industrial corporations in policy
formulation and implementation related to planning of human
settlement and related issues.
Identifying planning areas and preparing regional
plans/master plans/development plans /zonal /zoning plans at
the region/settlement levels besides preparing existing land-
use plans
Prepare Building Bye Laws, regulating construction on defined site.
Co-ordinating the activities of various stake holders involved in urban
planning
11. Preparing Traffic mobility Plans
Ensuring planned development of human settlements
Framing policies/programs related to private sector involvement in
urban planning/infrastructure development
Sanctioning building plans for various buildings coming up in human
settlements.
Regulating development and checking the haphazard development in
and around towns in accordance with the provisions of statutes
To assist in selecting sites for setting up new towns/industrial areas/
SEZ/ institutions etc
WAY FORWARD
Town planning, which had its origin with the dawn of civilization on this
planet , shall continue to be relevant till homo-sapiens will live on this
earth. Town planning offers unlimited scope which will be co-terminus
with the genesis, growth, development and management of human
settlements. UNO has also included resilient cities and communities in
the list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in order to make this
planet sustainable. It recognizes the critical role of Town Planning in
making cities resilient and sustainable. Town Planning remains the only
profession which holistically looks at the integrated planning, growth and
development of human settlements. However, town planning has not
been given its due share and recognition in the planning and
development of the human settlements. Majority of agencies operating
and dealing with human settlements do not have qualified town planners
on their role. Deployment of town planners is largely confined to larger
settlements and few development authorities created at the regional/
settlement level. Out of 4041 statutory towns in India , even 20% ULBs
donot have the services of town planners with them. This has resulted in
mushrooming and haphazard growth/development of these settlements.
Unfortunately, it has not been realized that unplanned development
causes enormous loss to the community, city and nation. People living
in these areas or in the close vicinity, are greatly impacted by such
development which normally involves deficiency/absence of basic
amenities/services. These services form the core of health and hygiene
of the communities/city. In the process cities become less efficient and
less productive, causing enormous loss to economy and employment. If
the cities have the benefit of services of town planning, they would
become much better place to live in and will contribute immensely to the
growth and development of nations and communities.
12. With India on the cusp of rapid/massive urbanization, it will be essential
that cities should be mandated to use the professional services of town
planners by creating a dedicated cadre of town planners in the state
municipal services. However, planning profession also need to be made
more effective and efficient by looking at the intent ,content and scope
of the profession both in education and practice. The way planning
profession is being practiced, it has done more damage than good to
the planned development of human settlements. Profession involves
more subjectivity than objectivity where critical decisions of planning
and development are taken on the personal whims and fancies/under
duress or pressures, rather than on objectivity and well laid down
principles. It is time profession has to look critically the way it is being
practiced and how the decisions are taken. In addition, planners have to
re-look at their planning tools to make them more effective and efficient
in order to cater to the emerging urban dynamism. It will need making
research and development integral part of planning education and
planning practice. Role of academic institutions will be critical to make
planning profession vibrant, effective and efficient.
*Ar Jit Kumar Gupta
Founder Director, College of Architecture, IET Bhaddal
#344, Sector 40-A, Chandigarh-160036
Email -- jit.kumar1944@gmail.com,,Mob- 090410-26414