Urban and Regional Planning Education : Learning for India

334 Pages·2016·5.332 MB·English

by  Ashok Kumar, Diwakar S. Meshram, Krishne Gowda (eds.)

Ashok Kumar · Diwakar S. Meshram
Krishne Gowda E ditors
Urban and
Regional
Planning
Education
Learning for India
Urban and Regional Planning Education
Ashok Kumar Diwakar S. Meshram
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Krishne Gowda
Editors
Urban and Regional
Planning Education
Learning for India
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Editors
Ashok Kumar Krishne Gowda
Department ofPhysical Planning Institute of Development Studies
Schoolof PlanningandArchitecture University of Mysore
NewDelhi, NCTDelhi Mysore, Karnataka
India India
Diwakar S. Meshram
Institute of TownPlanners
NewDelhi, NCTDelhi
India
ISBN978-981-10-0607-4 ISBN978-981-10-0608-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0608-1
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Acknowledgements
Completion of this book is due to the generous support offered by a number of
individualsandorganizations.UniversityofMysore,Karnataka;SchoolofPlanning
and Architecture, New Delhi; and the Institute of Town Planners, India, have
supported this project from the start by helping organize the international confer-
ence where prominent educationists and planning professionals were invited to
presentpapersononeofthemostimportantsubjectsofplanningeducationinIndia.
This book is an outcome of the selected papers that were presented at this inter-
national conference titled ‘Town and Country Planning: Retrospect and Prospect’
from 21 to 23 November 2014 at the University of Mysore.
The editors particularly thank Prof. K.S. Rangappa, Chief Patron and Vice
Chancellor of the University of Mysore for his unwavering support and encour-
agement to make this publication a reality. We also express our gratitude to the
Steering Committee of the conference, specifically Prof. Chetan Vaidya, Director,
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; Prof. Ajay Khare, then Director,
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal; and Prof. N. Sreedharan, then
Director,SchoolofPlanningandArchitecture,Vijayawada.Wealsothanknational
and international members on the Steering Committee of the conference.
Without the contributors’ time and efforts it would not be possible to produce
qualitypapersforthisbook.Wethankallthenationalandinternationalcontributors
for their wholehearted involvement in this book project.
Preparingamanuscriptforpublicationisasdifficultataskforeditorsasitisfor
thepublishers.AtSpringerIndiawegotalltimelyhelpthatwasneededtoprepare
the manuscript. The editors specifically thank Ms. Shruti Raj and Ms. Shinjini
Chatterjee of Springer India for their untiring efforts in helping us prepare the
manuscript for this volume. We remain grateful to all others who could not be
mentioned by name.
New Delhi, India Ashok Kumar
January 2016 Diwakar S. Meshram
Krishne Gowda
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Contents
1 Introduction: Making a Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Ashok Kumar
Part I Emerging Ideas of Urban and Regional Planning
2 Energizing Planning Education in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Diwakar S. Meshram and Swati Meshram
3 Planning Education for a Smart Urban India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Rolee Aranya and Chetan Vaidya
4 History of Indian Human Settlements—Lessons
for Planning Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
N. Sridharan
5 Positioning Urban Governance in Planning Pedagogy . . . . . . . . . . 61
Tathagata Chatterji and Aparna Soni
Part II Urban and Regional Planning Knowledges
6 An Exploration into the Multiplicity of Planning
Knowledges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ashok Kumar
7 Imparting Inclusive Education to the Next Generation
of Planners Through Participatory Learning:
A Case of the Global Studio Bhopal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Krishna Kumar Dhote and Preeti Onkar Singh
8 Need for a Shift in Pedagogy for Teaching Fundamentals
of Planning Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Natraj Kranthi and A.L. Valliappan
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9 Spreading Planning Knowledge in General Education . . . . . . . . . . 115
H.S. Champa and Gayathri Viswanathan
10 Integrating Planning Knowledges: A Case of HUDCO. . . . . . . . . . 123
T.G. Girish Karnad
11 Field Experiences of an Interdisciplinary Research
in Planning: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on a Small
River in Gujarat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Bhawana Vasudeva
Part III Urban and Regional Planning Ethics
12 Role of Silences in Planning: Spatiality, Diversity
and Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Ashok Kumar
13 Ethics and Planning Education in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Poonam Prakash
14 Relationship Between Planning Education and Planning
Profession After the Market Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Nitin Saolapurkar
15 Ethics in Town and Country Planning Education
in India: Environments and Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Abdul Razak Mohamed
16 Value Education in Planning for an Effective Professional
Outreach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Srikonda Ramesh
17 Urbanization, Sustainable Development and the Need
for Ethics in Planning Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
D. Ravishankar, Krishne Gowda and M.V. Sridhara
Part IV International Perspectives on Planning Education
18 The Place of Time in Planning Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
John Minnery
19 Planning Education in an International Perspective:
Making the Most from Global and Local Knowledges . . . . . . . . . . 245
Raffaele Paloscia
20 The Changing Context for Planning Education in the UK
and the Prospects for Research-Led, Practice-Engaged
Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Geraint Ellis, Brendan Murtagh and Lisa Copeland
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21 Indicators: From Counting to Communicating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Javier Martínez and Emile Dopheide
22 Sharing Planning Skills Across Borders: International
Volunteers Helping Build Planning Capacity
in Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Peter Cockhead and M.C. Hemalatha
Part V Conclusion
23 Conclusions: The Future of Planning Education in India. . . . . . . . 319
Ashok Kumar
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning stu-
dentsattheSchoolofPlanningandArchitecture,NewDelhisincethelast23years
after finishing his doctorate from theUniversity ofLiverpool,U.K. Widelyknown
for his expertise in spatial justice, capabilities and planning, and collaborative
planning theory, Prof. Kumar has published nearly 100 papers in national and
international journals, authored, edited, and co-edited 10 books, and contributed
over20bookchapters.CurrentlyheisEditoroftheITPIJournaloftheInstituteof
Town Planners, India. Previously he has been Editor of SPACE: The SPA Journal
of Planning and Architecture published by SPA New Delhi.
Diwakar S. Meshram formerly Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning
Organization, New Delhi for more than 12 years, Dr. D.S. Meshram has greatly
influenced the planning profession in India since the last four decades. Currently
Dr. Meshram isthePresident oftheInstituteofTown Planners, India.Prior tothis
Dr.MeshramhasheldthepositionofChairmanoftheAllIndiaBoardofTownand
CountryPlanningEducationofAICTEfor9yearswhenhegotpreparedthemodel
curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more
than 2 years, Dr. Meshram was appointed Advisor (Urban Development) to
Government of Uttarakhand.
Krishne Gowda is the Director at the University School of Design, University of
Mysore, Karnataka since December 2014. Before this Prof. Gowda held the posi-
tionofDirector,InstituteofDevelopmentStudies,UniversityofMysorefornearly
6years.HehasbeenworkingasaProfessorofUrbanandRegionalPlanningatthe
Universityforover12years.Sofarhehassupervised16doctoralstudents.Hehas
authored and co-authored more than 40 papers in journals, and also authored and
co-authored 8 book chapters. He is a great organizer of academic events.
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