DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND REGIONAL PLANNING

 

The Department of Architecture and Regional Planning was established in 1952 in this Institute, and has been involved in teaching and research in the areas of Architecture, Regional Planning, and City Planning. It is recognized as one of the leading Departments in the country offering undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral programmes. The department currently offers a postgraduate course in Master of City Planning.

The basic objective of the postgraduate programme is to train the students to be sensitive to the forces of development that exist in human settlements, analyse the current urban and regional planning problems with a global perspective, and equip the students with a multi-disciplinary approach, to study and tackle such planning problems. The academic input among others, focuses on issues related to, Socio-Economic and Physical Aspects of Human Settlements, Housing, Transportation Planning, New Town Planning, Urban Revitalisation and Conservation, Utilities and Infrastructure Planning, Development Economics, Environmental Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Planning, GIS and Remote-sensing, Tourism and Recreation Planning. The Department offers following specialization:

AR    City Planning

 

Course Contains :

The Core Courses are: Planning Theory and Process, Statistical Techniques and Computer Programming, Transportation Planning and Traffic Engineering, Planning Legislation and Professional Practice, Development Management and Finance, Planning Workshop I and II (including Two-week field study in each).

Depending on their interests, the students are required to take up three Elective Courses in the first and second semesters each. The electives are grouped as follows:

Elective – I: Housing and Community Planning, Housing Policies and Programmes, District and Rural Area Planning;

Elective – II: Social Aspects of Human Settlements, Dynamics of Settlement Systems, Regional Development and Planning;

Elective – III: Utilities and Services Planning, Water Resources Economics, Development of Human Resources, Disaster Management;

Elective – IV: Remote Sensing and GIS in Planning, Systems Modelling and Analysis, Planning Informatics;

Elective – V: Quantitative Methods in Planning, Regional Analysis and Programming, Environmental Planning, Metropolitan Planning;

Elective – VI: Tourism and Recreational Planning, Urban Conservation Studies, Urban Design, Landscape Planning;

The students are also required to take up an eight weeks summer-internship. This would be undertaken in any leading planning organization, development authority, or planning laboratory. The Department provides assistance in organizing the training programme. Seminars, presentations and group-discussions are regular components of the course. A comprehensive viva-voce is conducted to review their knowledge base at the end of the stages of learning. The students finally work on a dissertation on an area of their interest, and defend it through the final viva-voce.

 

Areas of Research

Urban Fringe Areas, Housing and Community Planning, Urban Open Spaces, Transportation Planning, Watershed Management, Heritage Studies and Conservation, Infrastructure Planning and Systems Management, Computer Applications in Architecture and Planning, GIS and Remote-sensing Applications. The Department is engaged in various live projects on urban planning.

 

 

 

 

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