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The Mumbai Metropolitan Region extends over an area of 4355 sq. km and comprises Municipal Corporations of Greater Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan, Navi Mumbai and Ulhasnagar; 15 municipal towns; 7 non-municipal urban centers; and 995 villages. Its administrative limits cover Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban Districts, and parts of Thane and Raigad District. There are 40 Planning Authorities in the Region that are responsible for the micro-level planning of the different areas.
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2. DEFINITION OF INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING ITP
3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF URBAN PLANNING
a. ELOBRATIONS
4. TERMS USED IN PLANNING AND THEIR DEFINITION
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2. DEFINITION OF INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING ITP
3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF URBAN PLANNING
a. ELOBRATIONS
4. TERMS USED IN PLANNING AND THEIR DEFINITION
5. RELATIONSHIP OF CRP WITH OTHER FIELDS
a. RELATIONSHIP WITH ARCHITECHTURE
b. RELATIONSHIP WITH CIVIL ENGINEERING
c. RELATIONSHIP WITH ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
d. RELATIONSHIP WITH SURVYING
e. RELATIONSHIP WITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECHTURE
f. RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOLOGY
g. RELATIONSHIP WITH ECONOMICS
6. IMPORTANCE OF URBAN PLANNING
7. FUNCTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PLANNER
8. NEW TRENDS IN PLANNING
9. GEOGRPHICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO PLANNING
10. JUSTIFICATIONS FOR PLANNING
11. PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
12. LEVELS AND ELEMENTS OF PLANNING
13. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR PATRICK GEDDES
14. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF SIR EBNEZIR HOWARD
15. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF LE COUBISER
16. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF FRANK LOYD WRIGHT
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18. LAND USE PLANNING THEORY OF C.A DOXIADIS
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Neighborhood as an idea, concept, option and strategy has been extensively used globally by Architects and Urban Planners to plan and decentralize cities, create cities within cities, promote self-contained communities and to make cities more humane, safe and socially interactive. Accordingly, large typologies of neighborhood planning and designing with varying shapes, sizes and contents have emerged in the urban context with Americans using superblock and French using Sector for the neighborhood planning. Despite high degree of relevance, neighborhood planning has not been able to deliver the envisioned objectives. Cities in the process have been socially and physically fragmented, leading to clear division into different communities with little physical and social connectivity. Variance of planning and designing norms followed at neighborhood and sub-neighborhood levels have promoted more dichotomy and contradictions with varying quality of life. Differential population and infrastructures have divided the city into high and low end neighborhoods. City fabric in large cases has emerged as distinct social map of communities graded on the area/location basis with neighborhood planning emerging as instrument of social segregation/division. Neighborhood has been used in the planning of capital city of Chandigarh (India) with entire city fabric woven around Sector as the basic unit. In order to understand the neighborhood planning in the context of Chandigarh, It will be at appropriate to look, critically and objectively, at the entire context of sector planning with focus on basic philosophy and approach followed by eminent Architect Le Corbusier and his team in all three phases of city development, bringing out the issues, efficacy and efficiency of Neighborhood unit and its impact on growth and development agenda of the Chandigarh in the present context.
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5. Road Systems
6. Master Plan
7. Slum Rehabilitation
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2. Manzoor Ahmad Paper No. 246
URBAN PLANNING IN PAKISTAN
Manzoor Ahmad*
In the mediaeval Europe, Mercantilism and industrial revolution brought rapid changes in Road
Transportation. Town and cities emerged to accommodate commercial and industrial establishments.
Urban planning is, therefore, a recent branch of social engineering. In the agrarian society of the days
gone by, there was no requirement of organized city planning. Agriculture was the only source of
economy. Elementary form of handicrafts and services revolved around agriculture. The increase in
population was automatically accommodated near or around the culturable lands. Absence of
mechanical traffic did not require any TEPA. Artisan wells fulfilled the need of water for human and
animal consumption. Open land was freely available to meet the call of nature. So there was no need of
WASA as well.
Urban planning is essentially land use planning mainly for public purposes such as roads, water supply,
sewerage, graveyards, open spaces etc. Although urban planning is a recent engineering discipline,
we, however, do find in the ancient history some excellent examples of proper planning to house
growing population. In the Sub-continent, we can count HARRAPA, MOINJODARO AND TEXILA as
planned cities although in an imperfect grid pattern. Te blessings of the industrial revolution also came
in the sub-continent through British Raj who needed well planned housing for its civil servants in the
shape of civil lines and for the military personnel in the shape of cantonments. Interestingly, we see that
KOLKOTA, MADRASS and PANDICHARI are the first Urban developments of the sub-continent which
came up in the middle of 18th century when East India Company defeated the French and captured the
area permanently. LAHORE, PESHAWAR, RAWALPINDI, QUETTA and KARACHI Cantonments came
up after one hundred years. Urban planning is a dynamic science. Its fundamentals have remained the
same since its recognition as a high-tech science; nonetheless, its modalities and priorities keep
changing. Some time personal fads of city administration force an Urban planner to make compromises
in the designing of road crossings, open spaces and public structures. That is why we find technically
non-acceptable structures, round-abouts and ugly plazas in our larger cities. Storm water drains are
covered and sold as commercial space. All these unprofessional interventions have made our
metropolitan cities overcrowded and ugly.
Important elements of city planning for a community are enumerated below:-
1) Economic conditions (Poor, middle class and rich communities) .
2) Cultural habits (Elitist culture and populist culture).
3) Demography (Children schools and recreational facilities for them).
4) Social awareness of the community (Respect of environment, cleanliness, road discipline,
building bye-laws)
5) State policies & facilitation (State financed municipal services, structural and link roads,
electrification)
6) Availability of public transport, health services and higher education in the
neighbourhood.
7) Security factor (Law & order in the neighbourhood).
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8) More importantly, the topography of the area chosen for developing an Urban facility
(Nearness to natural drains for storm & sewer water, subsoil water quality of land).
9) Last but not the least administrative / political pressures on the Urban Planner.
10) Effect on environments (Self-explanatory).
Let us see how our Urban planner has to work under the above stated constraints despite excellent
competence in his trade.
Economic conditions of the locality where an Urban community is to be developed play an important
role at the planning stage. Our major population lives in rural areas and is associated with agriculture.
Rural planning has to be, therefore, done under different criteria. Domestic animals are almost a part of
the household of farmers. Larger cities surrounded by rural population on the periphery are confronted
with unruly tractor trolleys, animal pulled carts, cattle on the roads, and bicyclists ignorant of lane
discipline. Among disciplined communities, narrow roads can bear the burden of users/crowded traffic
because people show patience, follow the lane and traffic signals.
State policies towards Urban planning are sometime unprofessional. Look at Lahore, hundreds of
housing societies in the public and private sectors have been approved or fully developed. Hardly 10%
of developed plots have houses, remaining are vacant. Why? Because all these societies lack public
amenities such as public transport, schools, healthcare centers, markets, recreational facilities and all
such amenities which would induce a plot holder to build his / her house. Hence the society will remain
un-inhabited for decades. The land, which is already scarce in vicinity of large cities, is rendered
useless due to its non-use either for housing or agriculture. The green belts around Lahore, Rawalpindi,
Faisalabad, Multan and other sizeable cities have vanished. Only two decades ago, these green belts
were the main source of fresh and cheaper vegetables for the city dwellers. The Public Authorities keep
developing land but without ensuring construction of houses on developed plots, in advanced counties,
the state provides structural roads, electricity and trunk sewer. Automatically the private sector is
attracted to create housing around the state-developed facilities.
Urban planner has to care for the cultural background of the community, he is designing for. The elite
culture and the populist cultural influence differently on the planning criteria. The elite class may
demand wider roads, larger residential plots, larger parks, community clubs and fabulous shopping
Malls. Lower income class on the other hand would need smaller plots, playgrounds for kids, public
transport and elementary schools for children and too many mosques (religious sensibility plays
important role in our Urban planning). An Urban planner has to take into account the topography of the
area, which also includes availability of sweet water in the vicinity. Islamabad is a well-planned city,
which was originally planned for a population of quarter million. For this population, water of Rawal and
Simili Dams was more than enough. The width of roads and their grid pattern was excellent. But what
is the position now. Islamabad's population has swarmed to over one million. Roads are jammed with
traffic despite restriction on auto-rickshaws, animal driven carts and tractor trolleys. Water is perennially
in short supply. Islamabad's green dividers and green belt on the periphery are being converted into
residential quarters. The Town Planner of Islamabad may feel sorry to see his Islamabad of to-day.
Urban planner is a sort of visionary when he is designing a township. But his vision cannot see beyond
50 to 60 years. Change in economic conditions, growth of population, change in social and cultural
behaviour and too many modifications in the priorities and policies of State authorities alter the shape of
a city. Same is happening in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi,
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PEDESTRIANS RIGHT TO USE THE ROADS IS
MOSTLY IGNORED. WHO IS AT FAULT? THE
TOWN PLANNER OR THE LOCAL BODY
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As stated earlier in this article, Urban Planning is essentially rational apportionment of a piece of livable
land. Best use of land cannot be made unless the State authorities cooperate with the Urban Planner
by not intervening in his assignment and by providing basic facilities to the property being planned and
developed. The State therefore.
Should not allow encroachments on roads and public
parks / open spaces.
b) Should not allow any commercial
structure on road crossings.
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c)- Should not create round-abouts on roads and lease them
for commercial publicity. Round-abouts are now being removed in
advanced countries.
ROUNDABOUTS ARE NOW OBSELETE IN
MODERN PLANNING. OUR KIND OF TRAFFIC
MIX IS PRONE TO ACCIDENTS.
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Urban Planner.
d)-
DISPLAY OF RELIGIOCITY AT BUSY CROSSINGS HINDERS
VISION OF DRIVERS AND ALSO CREATES BOTTLENECKS
MISLOCATED PATRIOTISM CREATES TRAFFIC JAMS
Unfortunately this cannot happen in our country despite the fact we have stringent laws of building
controls and town planning. External factors tend to defeat good urban planning.
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