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URP- 802 Comparative Urban Planning
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Campus
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SCEE (NIT)
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Fall Semester 2016
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Course Title
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Comparative Urban Planning
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Course Code
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URP- 802
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-Requisutes
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Course Objectives
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Course Objectives: This course is designed to provide students with understanding to the problems, assumptions, approaches and institutional settings of urban planning in developed and developing countries, besides, the analysis of various existing and previous planning models used around the world. .
Course Outcomes: After the course the student should have a good knowledge of various models of urban planning and critical understanding of the context of each approach for assessing its relevance to the Pakistani conditions.
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Detail Content
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- Introduction
- Socio-economic contexts of urban planning in the capitalist, socialist and the developing countries.
- Introduction to the problems, assumptions, approaches and institutional settings of urban planning in developed countries like the United States, Britain, France, China, Poland etc., and in developing countries like India, Pakistan, and China etc.
- Concepts and approaches emerging from the United Nations and the World Bank’s involvement in urban problems of this world.
- Students will be expected to appreciate varying national styles of urban planning and encouraged to critically understand the context of each approach for assessing its relevance to the Pakistani conditions.
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Text/Ref Books
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Text Book (Author, title, publisher, publication year): Cherry G.E., 1988, “Cities and Plans”, Edward Arnold London.4. Cullingworth J.B., 1988. “Town and Country Planning in Britain” Tenth Edition. Unwin Hymen, London.
Reference books (Authors, title, publisher & publication year):
- I. Masser & R. Williams (eds), 1986, “Learning from other countries: the cross-national dimension in urban policy making”, Alden Press, Oxford,
- Stretton H., 1978, “Urban Planning in Rich and Poor Countries”, Oxford University Press, Oxford PP, 3-18 and 78-79 (the rest of the book is worth rereading, thou),
- Cherry G.E., 1988, “Cities and Plans”, Edward Arnold London.
- Cullingworth J.B., 1988. “Town and Country Planning in Britain” Tenth Edition. Unwin Hymen, London.
- Hall P., 1988, “Cities of Tomorrow”. Blackwell, Oxford. - M.Grant, 1992, “Planning law and the British land use planning system: an overview”, Town Planning Review, 63 (1).
- Robson B., 1988, “Those Inner Cities: Reconciling the social and economic aims of urban policy”.
- Dal Cin A. and D. Lyddon (eds), 1989, International Manual of Planning
- Practice”, International Society of City and Regional Planners, The Hague.
- Davies HWE, 1991, “Zoning and discretionary control: a Comparison” unpublished paper to 1991. AESOP/ACSP Congress, Oxford.
- Cherry G.E., 1986, Problems of cross national research: An East European perspective” in I. Masser & Williams, “Learning from other countries”.
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Time Schedule
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Fall Semester 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Asst Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed Vohra
MSc AIT Bangkok, Thailand
Discipline: Urban & Regional Planning
Specialty: Human Settlement Development
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