PLANNING STUDIO I

(21ARP602)

Submitted by:
SHUBHI MAHAWAR

Batch: 2021-23
ID No.: 2021PAR5448
1st Year, M. Plan.

MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN

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 URBAN PLANNING STUDIO 1

INTRODUCTION
The term neighbourhood is often used to describe the different divisions of urban or rural settlements.
In its definition, a neighbourhood is the vicinity in which people live. Lewis Mumford presented
‘neighbourhood’ as a ‘fact of nature’, which comes into existence whenever a community of people
share a place. Since the early ages of humanity, for practical, economical, sociological and psychological
reasons, people have tended to live close together in sections of an area and form communities.

HISTORY OF NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING

Neighbourhood planning is urban development at a scale greater than household size but smaller than
that of a city.

The ‘neighborhood unit’ as a planning concept evolved in response to the degenerated environmental
and social conditions fostered as a consequence of industrial revolution in the early 1900s. One of the
earliest authors to attempt a definition of the ‘neighborhood unit’ in fairly specific terms was Clarence
Arthur Perry (1872-1944), a New York planner.
Perry’s neighborhood unit concept began as a means of insulating the community from the ill-effects of
burgeoning sea of vehicular traffic. While the origin of the concept of the neighborhood unit may be
cited at an early date, it was the publication of Clarence A. Perry’s memorandum entitled ‘The
Neighborhood Unit’ in the 1929 ‘Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs’, which led to its promotion
as a planning tool. Perry’s monograph offered in concrete terms a diagrammatic model of the ideal
layout for a neighborhood of aspecified population size. This model provided specific guidelines for the
spatial distribution of residences, community services, streets and businesses.

PRINCIPLES OF NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING

I. Size: The town is divided into self-contained units or sectors of 10,000 population. This is
further divided into smaller units called neighborhood unit with 2,000 to 5,000 based on the
requirement of one primary school. The size of the unit is therefore limited to about 1 to 1.
5 sq km i.e. within walk able distance of 10 to 15minutes.
II. Boundaries: The unit should be bounded on all its sides by main road, wide enough for
traffic.
III. Protective Strips: These are necessary to protect the neighborhood from annoyance of
traffic and, to provide suitable facilities for developing parks, playgrounds, and road
widening scheme in future.
IV. Internal Streets: The internal streets are designed to ensure safety to the people and the
school going children. The internal streets should circulate throughout the unit with easy
access to shops and community centers.
V. Layout of Buildings: To encourage neighborhood relation and secure social stability and
balance, houses to suit the different income group should be provided such as single family
houses, double family houses, cottages, flats, etc.
VI. Shopping Centre: Each shop should be located on the circumference of the unit, preferably
at traffic junctions and adjacent to the neighborhood units.

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VII. Community Centre: Each community will have its centre with social, cultural and
recreational amenities
VIII. Facilities: All public facilities required for the family for their comfort and convenience
should be within easy reach. These include the primary school, temple, club, retail shop,
sport centre, etc. These should be located within 1km in the central place so as to form a
nucleus to develop social life of the unit.

Figure 1: Clarence A. Perry's neighborhood unit of 1929

Characterised by six factors :

1. A child need not cross traffic streets on the way to school.

2. A centrally located elementary school which will be within easy walking distance, no more than
one and a half mile from the farthest dwelling.

3. A housewife can walk to a shopping centre to obtain daily household gifts.

4. Convenient transportation to and from the workplace.

5. Scattered neighbourhood parks and playgrounds to comprise about 10% of the whole area.

6. A residential environment with harmonious architecture, careful planting, centrally located

community buildings, and special internal street system with deflection of all through traffic
preferably on thoroughfares which bound and clearly set off neighbourhood.

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V- CASE STUDY: MINAL RESIDENCY, BHOPAL
A rapidly growing city of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal is pursuing a sustainable development process
known as Minal Residency Project. Situated in sub urban part of Bhopal, Minal Residency is a
neighborhood spanning over 197 acres. It has more than 3900 dwelling units, and has a population
of 20000 people (approximately). The housing typology comprises only of duplexes. However there
still is diversity in dwelling units in terms of plot areas (sixteen types in total). Road hierarchy
comprise of main road with 24 m row, followed by 18 m, 12 m, 9 m, and 6.5 m in row. This project is
being done on two phases. Phase 1 is simply known as Minal Residency, whereas phase 2 is known
as New Minal Residency. It is located from important centers of the city at the following distances.

a. Access
Distance from major centers

Centre Distance
(In km)
Bhopal Railway Station 10
Habibganj Railway 9.5
Station
New Market 14
Bhopal Airport 15
Upper Lake 21
b. Location By studying the span of development of past few years, „smartness‟ in terms of
location can be gauged for this neighborhood

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 It is shown by the figure that by the passing of
years area around Minal Residency has been
continuously developed which is perfect example
of neighbourhood planning.

c. Land Use As per URDPFI Guidelines land use has

been allotted which is as shown below in the table

Land use Area covered on Percentage allocated UDPFI STANDARD Remarks

ground (in sqm) on site (%)
Residential 611241 76.47 45-50 More
Commercial 7438 0.93 5-10 Less
Public and 3100 0.39 5-10 Less
semipublic
Recreation 32050 4.01 10-15 Less
Facilities and 9074 1.14 5-10 Less
services and
Open spaces 34297 4.29 10-15 Less
Roads
Parking 102150 12.98 10-15 Correct
Total 799352 100.00
SOURCE: URDPFI GUIDELINES 1996

Inference:
It is seen that area dedicated for schools is 1434 square meters. This is equivalent to 0.35 acres. It is
clear that the required area for schools is 11.85 acres. The area dedicated to educational facilities is
less. It is also seen that area dedicated to commercial activities is 7438 square meters. This is
equivalent to 1.83 acres. It is clear that the required commercial area is 4.94 acres. The area
dedicated to commercial facilities is less. In similar manner it is seen that area for community hall is
4423 square meters. This is equivalent to 1.09 acres. It is clear that the required commercial area is
0.49 acres. The area dedicated to community hall is more. Since it has been included in facilities and
services, which itself is in shortage.

REFERENCES
[1]. Smart Neighbourhood Planning in India Vivek Prajapati1 , Himanshu Padhya2

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CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS

CONURBATION an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns

merging with suburbs (10,00,0001 +)
CITY 1,00,001-10,00,000
TOWN 2,001-1,00,000
VILLAGE 101-2000
HAMLET 11-100 (small settlement generally one smaller than village)
ISOLETED DEWELLING Up to 20

General classification is given by Lewis Mumford herewith

(i) Eopolis: A small town of village origin based on agriculture, mining and fishing.
(ii) Polis: Market town with wholesale grain market.
(iii) Metropolis: It is a large city with 10 lakhs of population.
(iv) Megapolis: When main cities and metropolis coalesce to form a giant urban centre.
(v) Tyranopolis: In this country wide urbanization predominated the scene. Here the display
and expense become the measurement of culture.
(vi) Nekropolis: It is known as ghost city or dead city. This stage come due to war, famine,
diseases, decay of culture.

The human settlement classification for planning purposes, its nomenclature and population r
ange is redefined in the URDPFI guidelines based on:

• Census 2011 and reference to census towns.

• Master plan formulation in the states.
• Emerging agglomerations in India.

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Master plan of Jaipur

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 LAND USE PLAN

BUILDING TYPOLOGY
RESIDENTIAL USE ZONE:

Permitted Use Premises in Residential Use Zone (R-Zone)

1. Auditoriums
2.
a. Banks
b. ATM
3. Barat ghar
4. Boarding house and lodging house
5. Bus stop
6. Community centre
7. Convenient shopping centre
8. Cycle rickshaw/ Cycle cart stand
9. Dharamshala
10. Exhibition and art gallery
11. Township/Mini Township Scheme
12. Group Housing
13. Guest House
14. Gymnasium
15. Health centre and up to 30 beds
16. Hostel
17. I.T. unit in residential plot
18.
a. Integrated residential school with hostel facility
b. Integrated school without hostel facility
c. School for handicapped children

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19. Library
20. Local shopping centre
21. Nursery & kinder school
22. Nursing home
23. Old age home
24. Park
25. Plant nursery
26. Plotted housing
27. Police post
28. Primary school
29. Offices
30. Public utilities and building except services and storage yard
31. Recreational clubs
32. Religious premise
33. Research & development centre
34. Residence cum work plot (Shop cum Residence)
35. Residential flat
36. Secondary School
37. Senior Secondary School
38. Social welfare centre without auditorium
39. Taxi & auto stand
40. Technical training centre
41. Water pumping station
42. Yoga centre and Prakritik Chikitsalaya

Permissible Use Premises in Residential Use Zone

1. Burial grounds/ Cremation site

2. Children Traffic Park
3.
a. Cinema hall
b. Multiplex
4. Clinical laboratory
5. Household Industry
6. Motor vehicle repairing work shop garages
7. Multipurpose Shop
8. Municipal state and central Govt. Office
9. Museum
10. Music dance & Drama training centre
11. Open air theatre
12.
a. Orphanage without school

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 b. Orphanage with school facility
13. Petrol & diesel pump without service station
14. Printing press
15. Restaurants
16. Social cultural institute
17. Health Resort

COMMERCIAL USE ZONE:

Permitted Use Premises in Commercial Use Zone

1. Auditorium
2. Auto/Thela/ Rickshaw stand
3. Bakeries & confectionaries
4. Bank
5. Boarding house & Lodging house
6. Bus terminal
7. Cinema, Multiplex
8. College
a. Technical college
b. Medical college
9. Commercial office
10. Gas Godown including supply office/ Gas Booking office
11. Godowns & ware housing (non- inflammable)
12. Govt./ Institutional office
13. Group housing/ plot
14. Guest houses
15. Health centre up to 20 beds
16. Hotels
17. Library
18. Medical clinic
19. Motor driving training centre
20. Nursing home
21. Park/open space
22. Parking sites
23.
a. Petrol pump with service station
b. without service station
24. Police station/Police post
25. Post office
26. Railway freight Godown
27. Technical training institute
28. Research and Development

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29. Restaurant
30. Service centre & service industry
31. Financial institution
32. Technical training centre
33. Telephone exchange/ centre
34. Ware housing & covered storage
35. Wholesale trade

Permissible Use Premises in Commercial Use Zone

1. Bus terminal
2. Children’s traffic
3. Coal/wood/ Timber yard
4. Cold storage / chilling plant
5. Community hall
6. Cultural information centre
7. Exhibition centre and art gallery
8. Gas installation & gas works
9. Hospitals
10. Hotel Transit visitors’ houses
11. Junk yard
12. Motor garage and work shop
13. Open air theatre
14. Religious buildings
15. Research & Development centre
16. Vocational training institute
17. Voluntary health service
18. Ware housing/storage Godowns of perishable goods

INDUSTRIAL USE ZONE:

Permitted Use Premises in Industrial Use Zone

1. Auditorium
2. Boarding House and Lodging House.
3. Bus Depot and Workshop.
4. Bus Terminal
5. Cinema
6. Cold Storage and Ice Factory
7. Commercial Complex
8. Dispensary
9. Gas Godowns
10. Guest House
11. Hotels

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12. Loading and Unloading Spaces
13. Nursing Home
14. Park
15. Parking
16. Petrol & Diesel Pump Without Service Station
17. Petrol & Diesel Pump with Service Station
18. Public Utilities
19. Restaurants
20. Storage and Depot on Non-Perishable and Non-Inflammable Commodities and Incidental Use
21. Ware Housing
22. Whole Sale Business Establishment

Permissible Use Premises in Industrial Use Zone

1. Auto/Thela/Rikshaw Stand
2. Banks and Financial Institutions
3. Electric Power Plants
4. Exhibition Centres And Art Gallery
5. Flatted Group Industry
6. Govt/Semi govt. Private Business Establishment
7. Hospitals
8. Indoor Stadium
9. Industry Specific Type
10. Junk Yard
11. Medical Centres
12. Junk Yard
13. Medical Centres
14. Motor Garage and Workshop
15. Museum
16. Night Shelter
17. Outdoor Stadium
18. Railway Freight Godown
19. Religious Building
20. Research and Development Centre
21. Service Stations
22. Sewage Disposal Works
23. Vocational Training Institute
24. Wholesale Business Establish
25. Workshop/Garages

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