MCP SEM-I CURRICULUM

SUBJECT NO-AR69003, SUBJECT NAME- PLANNING WORKSHOP-I

(INCLUDING 2 WEEK FIELD STUDY) LTP- 0-0-9, CRD- 6
SYLLABUS: - Skill formation Community Planning exercises. Orientation
workshop through reference studies and introductory graphic course.
Identification of needs of a community through socio-economic and physical
survey- including updating a given base map. Site planning, Housing cluster and
residential sector studies - layout, density, utility network and community
facilities locations cost benefit thereof. Introduction to special area problems
(slum/new towns/rural area) and preparation of their plan program. Land use
interaction studies of a small urban area and its environment.

SUBJECT NO-AR60001, SUBJECT NAME- PLANNING THEORY AND

PROCESS LTP- 3-0-0, CRD- 3
SYLLABUS: - Origin and evolution of planning; Impacts of Industrial Revolution
on town and regional planning; Contemporary developments in planning;
formation of metropolitan areas; socio-economic impacts of growth of
population; rural-urban migration. Contributions of Ebenezer Howard, Patrick
Geddes, Tony Garnier, Lewis Mumford, Le-Corbusier and others in planning.
The fundamental problems of the city; changes with time and growth;
technological, social and other changes in size and scale. Physical nature and
characteristics of the urban environment and its components; Land uses,
physical structure and relationship between parts of a city. The interim and
comprehensive plans: Structure Plan, Master Plan, Zonal Development Plan -
their purpose and contents. Surveys, analyses and design methods and
practices in comprehensive planning. Current planning thoughts.
SUBJECT NO-MA60061, SUBJECT NAME- STATISTICAL TECHNIQUE &
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LTP- 3-1-0, CRD- 4
SYLLABUS: - Estimation and hypothesis testing, correlation and regression,
analysis of variance (one-way and two-way classification). Programming
preliminaries, some simple program in C, numeric constants and variables,
arithmetic expression, input and output conditional statements, loops, arrays,
logical expressions, functions, character strings enumerated data type and
stacks, structures.

SUBJECT NO-AR60003, SUBJECT NAME- TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

AND TRAFFIC ENGINEERING LTP- 3-0-0, CRD- 3
SYLLABUS: - Transportation systems; technological characteristics of transport
modes and systems; the nature of demand and supply of transport services;
the spatial structure vis-ÃÂ -vis the level and quality of transport supply
systems. Land use-transportation inter-relationships; transportation planning
process; Travel demand forecasting. Planning of public transport systems;
intermediate public transport modes; Planning considerations for goods
transportation; Traffic flow characteristics; Traffic analyses and design
considerations; design of intersections; traffic signals and street lighting; local
area traffic management. Recent innovations in technologies and its probable
impacts on future urban forms. Environmental impacts of traffic; energy issues
in transportation; transportation safety. Government transport policies and
evaluation of transportation proposals.
SUBJECT NO-AR60023, SUBJECT NAME- UTILITIES AND SERVICES
PLANNING LTP- 3-0-0, CRD- 3
SYLLABUS: - Water supply systems: quality and quantity requirements; sources;
collection and conveyance of water; treatment methods; treatment plant
location; planning distribution systems and their zoning with respect to urban
structure. Wastewater disposal systems: separate and combined systems;
characteristics of waste water; Industrial pollutants and their effects; waste
water treatment methods; planning and location of treatment plants; disposal
of municipal and industrial effluents, effects on rivers and water bodies; legal
aspects. Solid wastes collection and disposal: Elements of solid wastes
management; classification and properties of solid wastes; on site collection,
storage, transportation and disposal of solid wastes; processing and treatment
of solid wastes; various social aspects of the solid waste management.
Planning for urban electrical distribution system and communication systems.

SUBJECT NO-AR60005, SUBJECT NAME- HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

PLANNING LTP- 3-0-0, CRD- 3
SYLLABUS: - Housing situation: Impact of industrialization and urbanization,
slums and squatter settlements, case studies from India and abroad. Housing
for poor people, sites and services, self-help housing, integrated slum
improvement and slum networking. Housing for new communities: norms and
standards for dwelling, shopping, education, health and recreational facilities.
Neighbourhood concept: densities and their optimization. Housing finance.
Cost reduction in housing: techniques and related issues, alternative building
materials. Residential environment: users’ satisfaction and behavioural
aspects, evaluation of housing developments.
SUBJECT NO-AR60019, SUBJECT NAME- DYNAMICS OF SETTLEMENT
SYSTEMS LTP- 3-0-0, CRD- 3
SYLLABUS: - Structure, morphology and functional classification of Indian cities.
Elements of settlement system size, function, spacing, linkage, input tributary
and output tributary, settlement patterns and factors responsible thereof.
Measurement of distribution of settlements, size and class of settlements,
cluster and agglomeration studies, functional at tributes and spacing of
settlements, potentialities and centrality of settlements. Growth, density and
spatial inequalities of population distribution, spatial patterns and
characteristics of occupational types; Ekistics â a science of human
settlements. Socio-economic aspects of population growth and distribution.
Factors of migration, types and patterns, urban rural migration and its impact
on development. Industrialization vs. Urbanization, Modernization of the
countryside, regional variations in industrialized urbanization. Distribution of
city sizes and rank-size rule, negative exponential density gradient. Theoretical
framework of central place theory. Christallers fixed K-hierarchy, Loschs
general system of location of settlements, variable K-hierarchy, Loschian
economic landscape. Interaction among settlements and cities as systems
within systems of cities; Urban models and structural changes - Forresters
urban dynamics; New approaches in dynamical system modeling; Spatial
interaction activity - the Wilson models, application of the models in the
retailing and residential subsystems; from deterministic to stotachastic
approaches to spatial dynamics, stability of a spatial growth process, the
chaotic analysis and catastrophe theory; Paradigm of self-organization,
towards a new synthesis in the modeling of evolving complex systems.
Bifurcations in dynamical systems theory, the mathematical ecology of
citiesDendrinos models