10.5                 COURSE OFFERED

COURSE CONTENTS

1.  PLANNING THEORY                                           (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

Planning theories suggested by eastern and western scholars. Elements of the planning process: identification of social goals; formulation of objectives, criteria and alternative proposals; choice of an action plan; implementation, feedback and evaluation. Models of the planning process: incrementalism, and optimizing strategies and systems approach. Advocacy planning.   Planning for efficiency and social justice. Citizen participation in the planning process.

2. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING          (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

Regional perspective in national development.  Sustainable regional development. Theories of  regional development and phenomenon of persistently depressed regions. Balanced versus   imbalanced development within national space. Metropolitan explosion and rural stagnation. Critical  evaluation of programmes of controlling metropolitan growth. Rural development as an instrument of regional policy. Notions of community development and integrated rural development program. Case studies of regional development in developed and developing countries.

3.URBAN LAND & REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT(03CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

Urban problems and land management tasks. Understanding the  operation of land and real estate markets. The dynamics of land supply and demand. Access to land . Land transaction and land development process in developed and developing countries. Role of central, provincial and local government, NGOs, Cooperatives, and Property dealers, The informal Sector in land management. Forms of land tenure and their characteristics. Land registration and titling process; constraints and opportunities; private sector involvement in land registration and titling. Strategies, policies, regulations and instruments to ensure effective  urban land management and their relevance to developing countries.

4.  A DVANCED PLANNING TECHNIQUES                (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

Planning as a cyclic process. Techniques of policy making and strategy  planning. Introduction to decision theory as a basis of public policy planning. Policy analysis as a techniquye of planning. Strategy evaluation through cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis. GIS and other techniques of developing master plans and local plans or area development schemes. Plan implementation techniques. Planning blance sheet and goal-achievement matrix analysis as tools of plan evaluation. Introduction to modeling techniques through the study of population  forecasting, gravity and land use models.

5.  PLANNING RESEARCH METHODS                        (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

The nature of quantitative and qualitative research and their  integration., Philosophy of quantitative research. Survey research: types and aims of surveys.  Sampling and generalization. Structured interviews and self-completed questionnaires: relationship to measurement issues. Content analysis. Techniques of analyzing quantitative date. Hypothesis testing. Philosophy of qualitative research. Field observations. Case study strategy. Qualitative data  analysis. Presentation of findings, writing-up of the thesis, and dissemination of research work, Managing research projects.

6.  URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING              (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

The urban transportation planning process. Generation of alternatives  and their evaluation. Introduction to systems analysis approach to transportation studies including residential and non-residential trip generation; gravity and opportunity models of trip distribution; trip end and trip interchange modal split; network assignment. Policies for urban mass transit. Planning for pedestrians, cyclists and animal driven vehicles. Transportation problems of rural areas and programmes of rural development. Urban traffic management policies, methods & techniques.

7.  COMPARATIVE URBAN PLANNING                     (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

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 and developing countries. Concepts and approaches emerging from the United Nations and the World Bank’s involvement in urban problems of this world.

8.  INFRASTRUCTURE  PLANNING                             (03 CREDIT HOURS, 100 MARKS)

Types of  infrastructure; physical, social and institutional infrastructure. Assessment of infrastructural requirements in various territorial and socio-economic contexts. Need analysis for infrastructural planning. Pre-requisites to infrastructural planning. Spatial considerations in infrastructural planning. Collaborations, partnerships and input of formal and informal sector in infrastructure planning; case studies of water supply, waste-water management, solid waste management, street network, etc. Integrating informally planned infrastructure within a larger plan.

9.  THESIS                                                                             (06 CREDIT HOURS, 200 MARKS)