Urban Planning Techniques & Practices
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Urban Planning Techniques & Practices Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Urban Planning Techniques & Practices (subject code 3724801) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 28 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 (3724801)Unit 1 Land use activities
- Population forecasting methods
- Analysis and prediction of important land use activities
Unit 2 Spatial Standards
- UDPFI/ URDPFI and TCPO guidelines
- GDCR of a city for residential
- commercial and recreational areas
- standards for urban amenities
- Provisions of Town Planning Act, zoning
- subdivision practice and metro region concept
Unit 3 Analytical techniques
- Linear programming
- threshold analysis
Unit 4 Town development plan /town planning schemes
- contents and preparation
- Land value and density pattern
- A case study of development plan
- preparation of Town Planning Schemes
- activity areas
- plan implementation – organizational legal and financial aspects
- public participation in plan formulation and implementation
- planning for urban poor
- national renewal schemes and policies
Unit 5 Urban decay and conservation
- Urban Decay causes and impacts
- Urban renewal
- scope and limitations
- identification of renewal areas
- renewal strategies
- Urban conservation: Meaning
- significance and techniques
Unit 6 Concept of new towns
- role and functions: Special planning and development considerations
- scope and 6 Subject Code 3724801 w.e.f