This document provides an overview of urban planning in India. It defines urban planning and discusses its history from ancient civilizations. The main theories of urban planning are described, including rational planning, synoptic planning, advocacy planning, and communicative approach. Key aspects of urban planning like infrastructure, transportation, and green spaces are covered. An example master plan for Gujarat International Finance Tec-City is presented. Urban planning occurs at national, regional, and municipal levels. Potential impacts on happiness, education, and criminality are discussed.

1. Urban planning in India

2. Prepared by: Rishabh Sharma
Deen bandhu Chhotu ram University of
Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonepat
Haryana.

3. Contents
• Definition
• History
• Theory
• Aspects
• Practice
• Impacts

4. Definition
• Urban Planning:- Design and regulation of the
uses of space that focus on the physical form,
economic functions, and social impacts of the
urban environment and on the location of
different activities within it. Involving goal
setting, data collection and analysis,
forecasting, design, strategic thinking, and
public consultation.

5. Main factors
• Three factors have main role in urban planning
• The decision-makers
• The technicians
• The users

6. History
• The first recorded description of urban
planning is described in the Epic of Gilgamesh,
Designed cities were characteristic of the
Minoan, Mesopotamian, Harrapan, and
Egyptian civilizations of the third millennium
BC. “Hippodamus invented the vision of cities"
Aristotle therefore he was called the father of
Urban planning 5th century BC

7. Theory and Components of Urban planning
• Planning theory is generally called procedural because it
generally concerns itself with the process through which
planning occurs and whether or not that process is valid,
they relate to public participation.
• Components for urban planning:-
• 1. Rational planning
• 2. Synoptic planning
• 3. Participatory Planning
• 4. Mixed scanning model
• 5. Advocacy planning
• 6. Bargaining model
• 7. Communicative approach

8. Rational Planning
• Rational planning:- The rational planning
movement emphasized the improvement of the
built environment based on key spatial factors.
Examples of these factors include:-
• Exposure to direct sunlight
• Movement of vehicular traffic
• Standardized housing units
• Proximity to green-space.

9. Synoptic Planning
Public participation was first introduced it
focused in four elements:-
• Goals and targets.
• Quantitative analysis for environment.
• Identify alternative policy options.
• The evaluation of means ends Synoptic
Planning

10. Advocacy Planning
• Advocacy planning:- Public participation is a
central tenet(norm) of this model. A plurality
of public interests is assumed, and the role of
planner is essentially the one who either
advocates directly for underrepresented
groups directly or encourages them to
become part of the process.

11. Bargaining Planning
• Bargaining Planning:-The most interesting part
of this theory of planning is that makes public
participation the central dynamic in the
decision- making process. Decisions are made
first and foremost by the public, and the
planner plays a more minor role.

12. Communicative Approach
• Communicative approach:- Participation plays
a central role under this model. The model
seeks to include as a broad range of voice to
enhance the debate and negotiation that is
supposed to form the core of actual plan
making. In this model, participation is actually
fundamental to the planning process
happening. Without the involvement of
concerned interests there is no planning.

13. Urban Planning Aspects
• Aesthetics
• Safety and security
• Infrastructure
• Environmental factors
• Green spaces
• Transport
• Slums
• Decay and destruction of waste
• Reconstruction and renewal
• New master-planned cities

14. Master plan for Gujarat International
Finance Tec‐City, GIFT

15. GIFT Overview
Plan proposed by:- Halima A
Othman , Architect Engineer ,
Urban Planner , University of
Zakho , Petroleum
Department

16. Urban planning levels
• National level
1. Policy making
2. Strategic objectives
• Regional level
1. Land act
2. Regional plans, Transportation
• Municipal level
1. Land development plan
2. Land use plan
3. Master plan

17. Urban planning Impacts
• Dose Smart cities make people happier ?
Person’s happiness needs to be more
important than achieving efficient and
convenient smart city. An essential issue for
achieving human centered smart city.

18. Urban planning Impacts
• Dose Smart cities make children smarter?
Kids who cycled or walked to school, rather
than traveling by car or public transportation,
performed measurably better on tasks
demanding concentration, such as solving
puzzles, and that the effects lasted for up to
four hours after they got to school.

19. Urban planning Impacts
• Dose Smart cities control criminality?
Criminality control, theories say that an ‘urban
environment can influence individuals’
obedience to social rules and level of power.