Housing for Special Area
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The official GTU curriculum for Housing for Special Area (subject code 2724813) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 2 divides the course into 3 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2724813)Unit 1 Special Areas
- Inner City Housing: Evolution and Historical Background
- spatial Characteristics
- housing transformation of core city
- impact of transformation
- Problems of inner cities
- policies and programmes
- Fringes / Peri-urban / Sub-urban Housing: Rural urban linkages
- characteristics of fringe areas
- development process and various modes of land Supply in fringe area
- case study with special emphasis on housing
- Housing finance
- Arid / Coastal / Hilly Region Housing: Settlement and shelter characteristics
- Materials and technology
- design standards
- climatic factors
- danger of hazards
- Settlement planning
- development policies and programmes
- industrial townships
Unit 2 Special groups
- Housing for Aged / Physically Challenged: Concept and definition of old age characteristics of aging population
- profile and growth of elderly persons
- classification of elderly population
- problems of elderly planning and design considerations for elderly
- case study with special reference to housing
Unit 3 Housing for women, children and refugees
- Importance of gender in housing
- housing planning and design considerations with women perspective – hierarchy of spaces at macro and micro level
- shelter for low income women
- design considerations for urban and rural women
- housing options for different categories for
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