Planning Studio-1

Subject Code: MURP101 Subject Name: Planning Studio1 Teaching Marks for Marks for external Total Credits Duration of Schedule Sessional work Examiner Marks Examination Lecture e|Studio 12 50 50 100 12 Viva Paper Setting Studio Intent The first semester Studio aims to develop intimate understanding of a city and equips the students with conceptual, methodological, analytical, and communication skills necessary for becoming a professional urbanist. This studio focuses on an evidence based approach for framing and analyzing complex urban situations and problems Expected Outcomes:

1.Students should expect to develop intimate understanding of the city and learn urban spatial analysis, mapping and representational skills, reading and writing skills along with the key concepts and methods to analyse the city.

2. Students should be able to demonstrate the skills of, ·Mapping and measuring the complexities of the built environment, · Engagements with communities through the analysis of surveys and focus group discussions, ·Writing the descriptive and analytical texts about their analysis and interventions, · Familiarity with key texts in urban planning history and theory

3. Students should be able to demonstrate understanding the ways in which their urban analysis and intervention is Evidence driven, cogently informed, sensitive and appropriate to context.

The first six weeks need to be dedicated to exercises/assignments which may include the

following modules:

Approvals BOS:2 21/01/2021,31/03/2021 Sub Academic Council:

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Signature University Schoolof Architecture and Planning Masterof Planning(Urban and Regional Planning) Module 1:

Audio-Video Interpretations (1week) Film or Documentary related to city development and socio economic issues will be screened for students. The purpose of these films is to educate the students’ understanding of various development issues and to absorb the planning practice. At the end of the film, a discourse around thefilm will also be held. After viewing the films, each student is expected to write about its main focus, city/region context, its applicability to Indian environment by answering the given questions in not more than half a page.

Article/Literature Review (1 week) Each student is expected to read the article given from a journal/book and write a summary of not how theauthor arrivedattheconclusionand its relevance to Indian context. Therewillbea negative marking for writing the same text as in the original (that is copying from the original text given to them).

Module 2:

Area Appreciation(1week) Theaim of the area appreciation exercise is to enable the students to understand and contextual ize the location of the area in relation to the city, zone and area in which the particular place is situated. This is done in relation to the socio-economic, spatial and cultural characteristics of that city, zone, location, etc. The main purpose is to make the students appreciate the locational attributes of land parcels for future development in a city.

Due to the size of the area, this exercise is done in groups of students being assigned to a particular area.

The following planning issues at area level should be identified:

Reviewof the Master Plan/Zonal/Area plan inrelation to theselected areas.

Appreciation/Analysis of ward level data.

Perception of areas in terms of legal/illegal/authorized/unauthorized, Slums, Urban Aesthetics.

Social Categorizations of people-Type of population living, people's perception about area and its planning problems.

Landuse including Agriculture land and landuse conflicts, extent(%) of broad landuse such as commercial, industrial, residential, institutional and recreational.

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Signature University Schoolof Architecture and Planning Masterof Planning(Urban and Regional Planning) Extent of formal/informal activities present in the area including their location and conflicts.

General land tenure of the area and land value for different uses.

Major types of transport, type of roads, hierarchy of roads, type of transport modes used.

Amenities: Location of Social and Physical infrastructure and their problems as perceived by local population. Look for specific infrastructure such as Water supply, drainage(water logging areas), waste collection and disposal system, sanitation, etc.

Environmental Issues: Open Spaces-Availability and extent of open space to built-up area, garbage disposal, encroachment (through photographic evidences and sketches).

Locating the study area in the zone, city and regional context with respect to all the above aspects.

Module 3:

Site Planning(3weeks) Siteplanning is aprocess where by the optimum utilization of potential of siteis considered recognizing the constraints the site has. It uses3 dimensional spaces of the site and the associated locational advantages, human activities and the regulations that are assigned to a particular site.

The site is developed using a set of standards/norms in a given context which varies from location to location.A student is expected to underst and the intricacies and interface between various variables such as soil conditions, topography, environmental dimensions, location, spatial standards applicable to the site, etc.

Module 4:

Outline Development Plan(10weeks) Introduction to Studio problem: Understanding the Urban Area The site area to be identified as the study area which could be city, part of city, peri-urban area, urban sprawl, etc. The exercise needs to be conducted in groups and it may cover in detail various factors responsible in the development process.

The exercise will be conducted with respect to the following listed parameters and will be mapped appropriately with available techniques:

connectivity, mobility, topography, geology, geography, morphology, etc.) Demography and Statiscal Profile Land-use study (land-use percentage, typologies, etc.) Approvals BOS: 21/01/2021,31/03/2021 Sub Academic Council:

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Signature University School of Architecture and Planning Master of Planning(Urban and Regional Planning) Mobility and Transportation (road connectivity and hierarchies) Infrastructure (Physical and social) Opens spaces and landscape Environment and ecology Culture and Heritage Socio-economic aspects Housing and Real Estate Policy and Legislations Approvals BOS: 21/01/2021,31/03/2021 Sub Academic Council:

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Signature 孔 Beee University Schoolof Architecture and Planning Masterof Planning(Urbanand Regional Planning)