I am Doctor Sanyukta Bhaduri,
Dean Research and professor of urban planning
in the school of planning and architecture Delhi.
I have been in experience as facility past three decades.
And I am offering this course on city and metropolitan planning.
Why is this course relevant
or what can we learn from this course.
Cities are dynamic entities
and they are continuously growing and developing.
And we all know that more than 50% of the world is Urban
and which is would increase to 66%
in 2050 as the future estimates state.
In India it would double from 32% in 2011
to 60% in 2050 as the estimates again state.
At present there are several issues, problematic problems
pertaining to the business growth and development
and many of our cities are unplanned.
This course hence would provide various processes,
approaches, techniques
related to planning of city and Metropolitan areas,
considering the scale, severity and complexity
of these issues which are plaguing the cities today.
Let us take a look at the contents of this course
and what would you learn from this course.
We will start with the trends of urbanization.
How more and more people are migrating
to the cities causing a rapid increase in the population?
And also increase in the number of megacities
like Delhi, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo in the world.
We will learn about the various implications
of urbanization in our cities.
It can be both positive as well as negative.
We will then look into what’s sort of opportunities
the cities are providing and which is acting as a pull-factor
for the migrating population.
And at the same time the cities are also having
lot of issues like slums squatters,
lack of waste management, pollution,
increasing congestion extra.
Cities cannot be understood in isolation
because they impact and are impacted by its hinterland.
A city needs to be understood
in the context of its region or its hinterland.
We will learn about the history of settlements
and try to develop an understanding
of how the cities have evolved from Paleolithic
period to what they are today.
For example about river valley civilizations,
about the Roman Empire, about the Mughal period.
All this we would learn in this course.
You would also learn about the new towns
that have developed and about the satellite towns,
about inner city areas, the peri-urban areas,
the counter magnet cities.
Next, we come to the history of town planning,
spanning from the industrial revolution
to the modern day planning.
We would look at the various theories and models
in the field of planning from classical, to neo-classical
to postmodern to neo-classical counterrevolution
and to the emerging approaches.
The most significant part of the course
would be the planning approaches and techniques.
And these planning approaches which would
talk about how to plan the cities,
what is the process, what are the data requirements,
what is to be analyzed.
So therefore various techniques
in order to continue with planning.
See this is the land use plan .
it’s a proposed land use plan for the city.
These are the existing residential areas,
and these are what are proposed,
these are along the major highways
and these are the recreational areas, which are proposed
and we have the recreational areas,
parks gardens all within the city.
This part is the existing city
and these parts are the proposed city.
Because the city is not static, city would grow,
so these are for the future development areas,
which have been earmarked for future development.
Residential areas then we have
the public and the semipublic areas,
then we have the water body,
there is a water body here,
which has been proposed for protection as recreational zone.
And then there is also a buffer zone,
which is there to protect the water body from development.
Then there are also a proposed transportation corridors.
There is a railway line, existing railway line
and there are these proposed corridors,
which are proposed for future development.
We have different levels of planning in our country
i.e there is a hierarchy of plans,
based on the extent of area to be planned.
So, Therefore, the need, contents
and the process of various plans
we would try to look at.
From regional plan, to master plan, to zonal plans
and then to local area plans,
which are, ward level plans and finally layout plans.
So from a large area
we would come down to the micro scale.
All the plans are prepared under some acts
and thus it is important to know
about the legal mandates and the policies,
missions and schemes,
which would guide the development of the cities.
As the cities increase in size from small cities
and continuously grow to become mega cities,
they need to be managed in order to have
smooth and efficient functioning
of various aspects of urban development
and we have to also look at the aspects of urban governance
reforms, urban re-development and participatory approaches.
Finally, we have to know
how do we finance the urban development,
which would include the resource mobilization,
innovative financing and investment requirement.
This course would be helpful for anyone
who wants to enhance their knowledge base
and learn about city or metropolitan planning.
Predominantly postgraduate students, graduate students and anyone
who can be students from school or professionals
or anyone who wants to know about cities
and about planning of cities
can benefit and learn from this course.