M.

Arch (Urban Design) | School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal

Intent of the Program

The two year postgraduate program in urban design at the School of Planning and Architecture
Bhopal explores the multidisciplinary nature of the discipline in offering a flexible and inclusive
academic path, encouraging students to engage in contemporary thoughts and design process in
the urban domain. The spatial engagement lies in the emerging urban morphologies in India
specifically and placing them in the context of Asian and world cities. The studios, lecture-based
subjects, tutorials and self-exploratory subjects are designed to generate knowledge which should
mutually complement each other.

The urban design curriculum will focus on how critical regionalism feeds into the program and
informs urban design thinking. In this context the ideas of continuous city, indigenous city, craft
based city etc would be discussed. This is the principle Vision of the programme. Emphasis is
on the ‘Indianness’ of the program through study of theory, writing on Indian cities and Indian
urbanism thinking.

The concept diagram represents the various domains of urbanisms the program engages itself
in.

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Proposed scheme of evaluation of Master of Architecture (Urban Design)

programme to be applicable from session 2019-20

I SEMESTER
CODE SUBJECT CLASSES END EXAM
STUDIO/ SEMESTER CREDITS DURATION
LECTURE TUTORIAL TOTAL EVALUATION
MAUD
2 8 10 10 -
0101 Urban Design Studio- I VV
MAUD Urban Form Study-I
2 0 2 WR 2 3
0102 Evolution of Urbanity
Urban Planning and The
MAUD City-I
2 0 2 WR 2 3
0103 Planning Techniques,
Policy And Legislation
Urban Networks and
MAUD Systems I
1 2 3 VV 3 -
0104 Site and Urban System
Planning
MAUD Urban Design Methods 2 3
1 3 -
0105 and Techniques-I VV
MAUD
1 2 3 VV 3 -
0106 Media Lab – I
Elective-1
MAUD
A-Writing about Cities 1 1 2 VV 2
0107
B- Indian Urbanism
TOTAL 10 15 25 - 25 -

II SEMESTER
CODE SUBJECT CLASSES END EXAM
STUDIO/ SEMESTER CREDITS DURATION
LECTURE TUTORIAL TOTAL EVALUATION
MAUD
2 8 10 10 -
0201 Urban Design Studio- II VV
MAUD Urban Form Study-II
1 2 3 3 -
0202 Urban Design Theory VV
Urban Planning and The
MAUD City-II
2 1 3 WR 3 3
0203 Urban Regeneration and
Housing
Urban Networks and
MAUD VV
Systems II 1 2 3 3 -
0204
Integrated Urban Mobility
MAUD Research Methods in
1 1 2 VV 2 -
0205 Urban Design
MAUD0
1 1 2 VV 2 -
206 Media Lab-II
Elective-II
MAUD VV
A-Future Cities 1 1 2 2 -
0207
B- Landscape Urbanism
TOTAL 9 16 25 25

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III SEMESTER
CODE SUBJECT CLASSES EXAM
END DURATION
SEMESTER CREDITS
STUDIO/ EVALUATION
LECTURE TUTORIAL TOTAL
MAUD Urban Design
2 8 10 10 -
0301 Studio- III VV

MAUD Common Pool

2 1 3 3
0302 Elective

A. Urban Design VV
Politics -
B. City People VV
and Art
C. Resilient VV
Cities
Urban Form
MAUD
Study-III 2 1 3 VV 3 -
0303
City Discourses
Urban Networks
MAUD and Systems III
1 1 2 WR 2 3
0304 Ecology and
Environment
MAUD Thesis
1 2 3 VV 3 -
0305 Programming
MAUD Summer VV
2 -
0306 Internship 2 2
Urban Design
MAUD WR
Project 1 1 2 2 3
0307
Management
TOTAL 9 16 25 25

IV SEMESTER
CODE SUBJECT CLASSES END EXAM
STUDIO/ SEMESTER CREDITS DURATION
LECTURE TUTORIAL TOTAL EVALUATION
MAUD Urban Design
4 16 20 20 -
0401 Thesis VV
MAUD
Report Writing 1 2 3 VV 3 -
0402
MAUD Urban Studies
2 2 VV 2 -
0403 Lab
TOTAL 5 20 25 25

NOTATION:
WR- WRITTEN EXAMINATION,
VV- VIVA VOCE

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PROPOSED COURSE STRUCTURE

I- SEMESTER II- SEMESTER III- SEMESTER IV- SEMESTER

Urban Design Urban Design Urban Design

STUDIO
Studio- I Studio- II Studio- III
Urban Form Urban Form Urban Form
Study-I Study-II Study-III
URBAN THEORY
Evolution of Urban Design City
Urbanity Theory Discourses
Urban Urban Urban
Planning and Planning and Planning and
The City-I- The City-II- The City-III-
Planning Urban Urban Design
Techniques, Regeneration Project
Policy And and Housing Management
MULTIDISCIPLINARY Legislation Policies &

Summer Internship
PERSPECTIVES Patterns
Urban Urban Urban
Networks and Networks And Networks And
Systems I : Systems II : Systems III :
Site and Integrated Ecology And
Urban System Urban Mobility Environment
Planning
Urban Design Research Report Writing
Methods and Methods in
TECHNIQUES Techniques-I Urban Design
Media Lab – I Media Lab-II
Elective-1 Elective-II Common Pool Urban Studies
Elective Lab
A- Writing A-Future Cities
about Cities B- Landscape A-Urban Design
EXPLORATORY
B- Indian Urbanism Politics
STUDIES
Urbanism B- City, People
and Art
C- Resilient
Cities
Thesis Design Thesis
THESIS Programming or Research
Thesis

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SEMESTER-I

Subject: Design Studio-I Subject Code: MAUD0101 Credit: 10

Course Objective:

Introduction to the complexities of the ‘Urban’ and exploration of the methods of

documentation, analysis and interventions. The studio will explore two themes in the
semester (as two studio explorations of 8 weeks, or a main studio component and a two week
collaborative intensive studio).

Course Content:

• Urban design terminologies through readings, methods of surveys and mapping

techniques of tangible and intangible aspects of the urban environment.
• Documentation, analysis and study of relevant urban design case studies
• Design development process with an overview of implementation mechanisms at the
urban level.

Course Outcome:

Mapping multiple layers of urban complexities followed by design demonstration through the
use of drawings/models/sketches.

Essential Readings:

• Bacon, E. (1967) Design of Cities. London: Thames & Hudson.

• Bentley, I. et al. (1987) Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers. Oxford.
Architectural Press
• Llewellyn, D. (2000) Urban Design Compendium. London: English Partnerships.
• Meeda, B., et.al (2007) Graphics for Urban Design. London. Thomas Telford
Publishing

Suggested Readings:

• Banerjee, T. and Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (eds.) (2011) Companion to Urban Design.

London, New York: Routledge.
• Carmona, M. and Tiesdell, S. (2007) Urban Design Reader. Amsterdam; Boston, MA:
Elsevier.
• Carmona, M., Heath, T., Tiesdell, S. and Oc, T. (2003) Public Places, Urban Spaces:
The Dimensions of Urban Design. Oxford: Routledge.

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• Spriergen, P. (1965) Urban Design: The Architecture of Towns and Cities. New York:
McGraw Hill.

Subject: Urban Form Study-I Subject Code: MAUD0102 Credit: 3

Evolution of Urbanity
Course Objective: To gain knowledge of how we evolved as ‘urban’ and the act of creating
and shaping urbanity as a critical layer in evolution of urban form and to study the significance
of the major components of cities and the way ideology is manifested in its built space and
legacy.
Course Content:
• Urban-life world, urban design and civic design, what is urbanity? Why do we need
cities? Ways and methods of studying cities, urbanity at the intersection of urban
anthropology and architecture of the city.
• Pre-industrial revolution urbanity, practices and urban form, industrial revolution and
emergence of town planning, urban responses to industrial cities –industrial city, city
beautiful movement, concepts of garden cities in Europe and America, the idea of
picturesque city, CIAM and the modern movement, Bauhaus, Corbusier's radiant city
and other ideas of modern city, origin of concept of zoning, building regulations,
zoning code in 1916, the birth of an American city.
• City of the automobile, technology and modern city 20th century cities and urban form:
capitalist, socialists and modernists– their morphology, physiology, ideology and
legacy. Urbanity through grand schemes - Washington, greater London plan,
Chicago, new Delhi, Canberra, Berlin, Chandigarh
• Urbanity through urbanists - Louis Wirth, Max Webber, Patrick Geddes, Lewis
Mumford, Walter Benjamin, Donald Appleyard, Jane Jacobs, Rob And Leon Krier,
Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, David Harvey, Peter Hall, Richard Florida, James
Howard Kunstler etc., new urbanism movement and its influence.
• 21st century cities and urban form: fragmented metropolis, networked societies,
spaces and flows in the contemporary city, splintering urbanism emerging urbanities
across the world, urbanity in global south, critical urban theory, concepts of just city,
right to the city, smart cities and techno-centric urbanism
Course Outcome:

Progressive presentation culmination into a seminar presentation and paper.

Essential Readings:

• Jacobs, J. (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random
House.
• Kostof, S. (1999) The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company.

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• Kostof, Spiro. (1999). The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through
History Thames and Hudson
• Mumford, L. (1961) The City in History. London: Pelican.
• Paulsen, Krista & Orum, Anthony & Chen, Xiangming. (2012). Introduction to Cities:
How Place and Space Shape Human Experience.

Suggested Readings:

• A.E.J. Morris. (1996). History of Urban Form before the Industrial Revolution, Prentice
Hall
• Hall, Peter. (2014). Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and
Design Since 1880
• Lin, J., (2005). The Urban Sociology Reader. New York: Routledge.
• Mumford, L., (1961). The city in History. United states of America: Harcourt.
• Sennett, R., (1970). The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life. New York:
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Short, J. R., (1996). The Urban Order: Introduction to Cities, Culture, and Power. John
Wiley & sons.

Subject: Urban Planning Subject Code: MAUD0103 Credit: 2

and The City-I
Planning Techniques, Policy
and Legislation

Course Objective: The aim of the course is to expose the student to the principles of
planning and critically evaluate how the cities of India are shaped through different planning
processes.
Course Content:

Planning Techniques
• Planning terms and their definitions; classification of cities; city region; spheres of
influence, urban rural fringe; internal structure of urban areas; density patterns; land
use classification and coding
• Conceptual understanding of socio-economic surveys: data requirements for urban
and regional planning; sources of primary and secondary data; questionnaire design,
measurement scale and their application; sampling techniques; types of socio-
economic surveys
• Overview of techniques of conducting surveys for land use, building use, density,
structural condition of buildings, heights of building, land utilization and physical
features of land; techniques for conducting regional surveys; regional delineation
techniques: factor analysis, cluster analysis; row analysis; case studies in regional
delineation
• Formulation of spatial standards for residential, industrial, commercial and recreational
areas; space standards for facility areas, utilities and networks; population, distance
criteria; performance standards; case studies: residential and non-residential density
patterns and analysis

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Policy and Legislation

• Evolution of planning legislation in India. Overview of legal tools for urban planning &
development, (town and country planning, improvement trust and development
authorities etc.)
• Various acts pertaining to conservation of natural resources including mining and
forestry acts, conservation and management of ancient monuments and
archaeological sites and ruins.
• Overview of development control regulations- zoning, sub-division regulations,
building regulations and bye laws
• Concepts and theories of planning and their applications as master plans,
development plans, laps, zonal development plans, development schemes, urban
renewal, development control regulations, URDPFI guidelines, etc.
• Concepts of land use, zoning regulations, mixed use development, special economic
zones
• Land acquisition act and process, land pooling and other schemes related to green
field projects, transfer of development rights
• Public participation in planning process
• Various urban planning missions and schemes

Course Outcome:

A critical overview planning processes and its impact on the development of an Indian city
Essential Readings:
• Development, M. o. U., (2014). URDPFI Guidelines Volume-1 & 2. New Delhi: Govt. of
India.
• K. Siddhartha, S. M., (2016). Cities, Urbanisation & Urban Systems (Settlement
Systems). New Delhi: Kitab Mahal Publishers & Distributors.
• Planning Techniques for AITP, Reader on Institute of Town Planners India
• Ramachandran, R., (1989). Urbanization and urban systems in India. Michigan:
Oxford University Press.
• Shah, U. C., (2015). Lectures on Planning Legislation. Suvidha Law House, Bhopal

Suggested Readings:

• Rao M.P.(2009). Urban Planning: Theory and Practice., CBS Publishers

• Weber R. & Crane. R. ed. (2012) The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. New York.
Oxford University Press

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Subject: Urban Networks Subject Code: MAUD0104 Credit: 3

and Systems-I
Site and Urban System
Planning
Course Objective: To develop skills that enables an urban designer to deal with large sites
in a comprehensive manner from ecological considerations to the design of built form,
services and related infrastructure.

Course Content:

Site Planning Theory:

• Ecology and urban nature
• Historical perspective of landscape design
• Principles of understanding and evaluating an existing landscape
• Development as a response to constraints and opportunities offered by the site
• Site planning: site and resource inventory methods, analyses and appraisal;
landscape suitability analysis

Site Planning Studio:

• Introduction to site and context

• Site reconnaissance - surveys and overlays
• Site resource systems: physiography, geomorphology, geology and soils, hydrology,
micro-climate, vegetation, wild life, terrestrial and aquatic and cultural resources.
• Geographical settings and siting
• The focus areas of site planning studio shall be:
o Inter-relationship of plan form- land form
o Open space-built space relationship
o Management built and open spaces
o Ecological responses & constraints
o Urban design form & guidelines and contextual design
o Programme development
o Circulation, services and allocation of infrastructure
o Landscape design and planning
o Other issues such as conservation, urbanization etc.
o Design demonstration

Course Outcome:

The studio will choose a suitable site where the students will individually map, evaluate,
analyze the site followed by design demonstration with the help of drawings and models.

Essential Readings:
• McHarg, I. L., (1995). Design with Nature. New York: John Wiley.
• Barry Starke, J. O. S., (2013). Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental
Planning and Design. McGraw-Hill.
• Dines, C. H. a. N., (1998). Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture. New
York: McGraw-Hill.
• Lynch, K. (1971) Site Planning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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Suggested Readings:
• John A. Flannery, K. M. S., (2008). Urban Landscape Design, The Neues Publishing
Company.
• Ian Douglas, N. W., (2011). Urban Ecology: An Introduction. Routledge.

Subject: Urban Design Subject Code: MAUD0105 Credit: 3

Methods and Techniques-I

Course Objective: The subject shall explore range of methods and techniques to equip
students to undertake spatial analysis of the city. By enhancing the skill-set of the students,
the course will run as a lateral to the design studio.

Course content:

• Introduction to urban design vocabulary

• Graphics, documentation and representation techniques
• Techniques of mapping: cognitive maps, layering, etc.
• Methods of urban design surveys: quantitative and qualitative
• Spatial analysis through models- 3D analysis
• The language of media-urban sketching, film and photography

Course Outcome:

A Portfolio comprising of drawings, maps, models, etc

Essential Readings:
• Tibbalds, F., (1992). Making People-Friendly Towns: Improving the Public
Environment in Towns and Cities. London: Spon press.
• Bally Meeda, et al., (2007). Graphics for Urban Design. Reston: Thomas Telford
Publishing.
• Llewelyn-Davies, (2000). Urban Design Compendium. Newham: The Housing
corporation.

Suggested Readings:
• McGrath. B. (2013). Urban Design Ecologies: AD Reader (Paperback). John Wiley &
Sons
• Campanario, G., (2012). The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around
The World. USA: Quarry books.

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Subject: Media Lab – I Subject Code: MAUD0106 Credit: 3

Course Objective: To equip students with GIS software for urban analysis

Course Content:

• Introduction to geo-referencing and projection

• Digitization: introducing vector data and creating vector data
• Building thematic map in GIS: symbology and spatial representation of qualitative and
quantitative data using choropleth maps, proportional point symbol, etc.
• Working with elevation data: dem and tin
• Attribute data of vector layer: understanding how tabular data are stored and used,
using queries to select records of interest, understanding joins and cardinality
concepts and summarizing tables to get statistics on groups
• Data analysis: buffers, overlay, proximity, network analysis
• Non-spatial data – database creation; integration of spatial and non-spatial data; data
• Land suitability analysis through weighted overlay method: land suitability and
weighted overlay method
• Create a printable map in GIS: scaling drawings and images; plotting and printing

Course Outcome:

A Project report comprising of application of GIS skills for spatial representation and analysis
of a selected precinct.

Essential Readings:
• Chor Pang Lo, A. K. Y., (2006). Concepts and Techniques of Geographic Information
Systems. Pearson.
• Tim Ormsby, E. N., (2004). Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView,
ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9. California: ESRI Press.

Suggested Readings:
• QGIS User Guide (2017)

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Subject: Elective-I Subject Code: MAUD0107 Credit: 2

Course Objective: To expose students to city as a social construct through interactive
learning.

Course Outlines:

Elective-I A Writing about Cities

The Course will equip the students read the built environment as a multi-authored text by
engaging in urban analysis by interacting with key stakeholders. The intent is to critically
observe and understand the physical environment in which we live and apply new
perspectives on communities through comparison with other cities around the world
through analytical and critical writing.

Elective-I B Indian Urbanism

The course engages in debates on Indian cities through critical questions such as - What
can we contribute to an understanding of the problems of the ideas of Indian city, is there
an Indian urbanism with longer roots in the ways city space was conceived and used,
and spatial practices determined? This subject will focus on urbanism specific to Indian
context covering socio-cultural aspects of historical as well as modern era referring to
non-spatial dimensions of urbanism beyond enclaves of planning.

Course Outcome:
The subject shall culminate into end term paper written by student on the chosen topic
with periodic presentations.

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SEMESTER-II

Subject: Design Studio-2 Subject Code: MAUD0201 Credit: 10

Course Objective:

Study the complexities of an ‘Indian City’ as a composition of actors and networks and
employing Urban Design strategies in the process of appropriation of urban dynamics. The
studio will explore two themes in the semester (as two studio explorations of 8 weeks, or a
main studio component and a two week collaborative intensive studio).

Course Content:

• Reading the city as a systemic entity through relevant literature review (specific to the
city) and subsequently experiencing the city and its multiple layers of spatial and non-
spatial nature.
• Analysis and inter-relationships of various factors of historicity, urban identity,
morphology, socio-cultural patterns, ethnicity, urban economics, ecology and
environment, mobility and global influences form part of the inquiry.
• Generating an urban design framework for intervening in the city
• Demonstration of Urban Design ideas/strategies at various scales to understand its
city level implications.

Course Outcome:

• Systemic understanding of city through spatial analysis of multiple actors and

networks.
• Design Interventions impacting structural and strategic implications on the city form.

Essential Readings:

• Rossi, A., (1984). The Architecture of the City. London: MIT Press.
• Lynch, K. (1981) A Theory of Good City Form. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Alexander, C. (1977) A Pattern Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

Suggested Readings:

• Rowe, C. and Koetter, F. (1979) Collage City. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Alexander, C. (1987) A New Theory of Urban Design. New York: Oxford University
Press.
• Alexander, C. (1965) A City is not a Tree, Architectural Forum, 122(1): 58–61.

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Subject: Urban Form Study II Subject Code: MAUD0202 Credit: 3

Urban Design Theory
Course Objective: Expose students to diverse theoretical discourses on Urban Form.

Course Content:

• Understanding the City: The aim is to explore the range nuances and methods to
understand the morphology of the city drawn broadly from disciplines of urbanism,
geography, planning and legislative mechanisms.
• Urban Design as a discipline: investigation into theories of place making and the
contribution of technology and economy leading to an understanding of what is
"urban" today.
• Various schools of thought in urban form studies: The subject shall expose students to
various types of models of city from through history. Determinants of urban from can
be derived from various theoretical standpoints.
• The emerging urban debates
• The Indian city in the Asian landscape

Course Outcome:
Progressive presentation culmination into a seminar presentation and paper.

Essential Readings:

• Banerjee, T., & Loukaitou-Sideris, A. (Eds.). (2011). Companion to Urban Design.

Routledge
• Bharne, V. (2013). The Emerging Asian city: Concomitant urbanities and urbanisms.
Routledge.
• Kostof, S., (1991). The City Shaped. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Kostof, S., (2005). The City Assembled. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Matthew Carmona, S. T., (2007). Urban Design Reader. USA: Architectural Press.

Suggested Readings:

• Cuthbert, A. (2003) Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design. Oxford: John
Wiley & Sons.
• Cuthbert, A. (2007a) The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design. Vol.
47. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Krier, R. (1993) Urban Space. New York: Rizzoli.
• Larice, M., (2007). The Urban Design Reader.. New York: Routledge.
• Newman, O. (1973) Defensible Space. London: The Architectural Press.
• Sitte, C (1889 orig.) City Planning According to Artistic Principles. See Collins and
Collins, 1989.
• Prashad. D., Chetia.S.(2010). New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian
Traditions. Cambrige Scholars Publishing.

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Subject: Urban Planning Subject Code: MAUD0203 Credit: 3

and The City-II
Urban Regeneration and
Housing
Course Objective:
Urban renewal and conservation are critical to the recycling and revival of certain city areas
and housing is produced in a variety of ways and is a reflection of ethnic, social and economic
groups in settlements.
The objective of the course is to equip the students to deal with developments in existing
cities and develop an understanding of the dynamics of emerging, traditional and
contemporary housing scenarios in India.
Course Content:

Urban Regeneration:
• Historic overview of urban renewal
• Development strategies for regeneration of inner-city areas.
• Case studies of urban renewal, adaptive reuse and brown field projects in India
and abroad Infrastructure up gradation, economic regeneration, financing and
management of urban renewal schemes eg: AMRUT
• Introduction to conservation, heritage, concepts of historic zones and world
heritage sites
• Principles of conservation and successful practices in conservation in India and
abroad
• Importance of charters, archaeological Acts, conservation Acts and legislation
concepts and approaches to urban conservation in India and abroad.
• Heritage tourism and conservation
• Institutional framework for urban conservation in India

Housing policies and patterns:

• Overview of housing scenario in India, types of housing, demand and shortage

• Traditional housing stock, its contemporary condition and transformations
• Rent control laws, subdivision of property and its effect on traditional housing
• Social housing scenario and the role of the state governments &NGO's
• Slums and squatter settlements, schemes for rehabilitation and improvement
• Role of real estate developers and private builders in the housing sector,
comparison with other Asian cities
• Housing as an investment, private public partnership and foreign direct investment
their impact on the housing market
• Critical overview of the contribution of central and state governments in the
production, control and management of housing
• Housing policy and future housing scenario in India.
Course Outcome:
• Presentation of case studies and fieldwork.
Essential Readings:
• Sykes, P. R. &. H., (2008). Urban Regeneration: A Handbook. Sage
• John Diamond, et.al. (Eds.), (2011). Urban Regeneration Management: International
Perspectives. London: Routledge.

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• Michael S. Gibson, M. J. L., (1982). An Introduction to Urban Renewal. Hutchinson.

• Couch, C., (1990). Urban Renewal: Theory and Practice. London: Macmillan
Education Ltd.
• V. Gandotra, et. al., (2009). Housing: Changing Needs and New Directions, Authors
press.
• Pugh, C., (1990). Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India. New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
• Sarkar, P., (2000). Housing Laws in India: Problems and Remedies. Eastern Law
House.
• Poulose, K. T., (2002). Reading material on housing. New Delhi: Institute of Town
Planners.
• Dwivedi, R. M., (2007). Urban Development & Housing in India: 1947 to 2007. New
Delhi: New Century Publications.
Suggested Readings:
• Hutchison, R., (1992). Gentrification and urban change. JAI Press Inc.
• Adams, D., (1994). Urban Planning and The Development Process. Routledge.
• Alain Durand-Lasserve, L. R., (2002). Holding Their Ground: Secure Land Tenure for
the Urban Poor in Developing Countries. Routledge.
• Baken, R. J., (2003). Plotting, Squatting, Public Purpose and Politics: Land Market
Development, Low Income Housing, and Public Intervention in India (King's Soas
Studies in Development Geography). Ashgate Pub Ltd.
• Majale, G. et.al., (2004). The urban housing manual: making regulatory frameworks
work for the poor. London: Earthscan Publication.

Subject: Urban Networks Subject Code:MAUD0204 Credit: 3

And Systems II
Integrated Urban Mobility
Course Objective: To understand mobility as an integral component of urban form.
Course Content:

Integrated Urban Mobility

• Pedestrian networks
• Overview of transportation systems and modes from pedestrian, NMV and IPT to
public transport options – BRT, MRTS, LRTs, etc. Issues of public vs. private modes
of travel; its design and operating characteristics.
• Classification of roads, road geometries and road components, traffic volume, origin
destination, spot speed, speed and delay, parking and pedestrian issues.
• Overview of traffic and transportation surveys
• Introduction to transport planning process- trip generation, trip distribution, trip
assignment, modal split, land use transportation models;
• Traffic Management- existing organizational and legal framework, traffic and
environmental management techniques; social sustainability in transport and review of
the existing traffic management schemes in case cities.
• Design for transit – urban form and movement networks, transit oriented development,
last mile connectivity, walkability and pedestrian environments; design and preparation
of layout for road intersections, rotaries and signalized intersections
• Integrated urban mobility systems and ITC interfaces

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Course Outcome:
Presentation of field based assignments.

Essential Readings:
• Kadiyali, L. R., (2011). Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning. New Delhi:
Khanna.
• Papacostas, C. S., (2000). Transportation Engineering and Planning. Pearson.
• National Urban Transport Policy, (2014)
• Jain, A. K., (2008). Urban Transport: Planning and Management. New Delhi: APH
Publishing Corporation.
Suggested Readings:
• Hutchinson, B., (1974). Principles of Urban Transport Planning. USA: McGraw-Hill Inc.
• IRC Codes, UTTIPEC and ITDP Street Design guidelines
• Comprehensive Mobility plans of case cities.

Subject: Research Subject Code: MAUD0205 Credit: 2

Methods– I

Course Objective: This course introduces students to the realm of methods and tools
commonly deployed in urban research.
Course Content:
• What is urban research?
• Design: images, presentations, and tests
• Research: concepts, hypotheses, and tests
• Research and design cooperation
• Research methodology: approaches, designs, and settings
• Research quality
• Archival research
• Urban ethnographic research
• Observing physical traces
• Observing environmental behavior
• Focused interviews
• Standardized questionnaires
• Quantitative techniques
Course Outcome:
Field based assignments on application of diverse research methods.

Essential Readings:
• Zeisel, J., (2006). Inquiry by Design: Environment/Behavior/Neuroscience in
Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning. W. W. Norton.
• Ward, K., (2013). Researching the City. University of Manchester, UK: SAGE
Publications Ltd.

Suggested Readings:
• Groat, D. et al., (2013). Architectural Research Methods. John Wiley

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Subject: Media Lab-II Subject Code: MAUD0206 Credit: 2

Course Objective: To equip students with advanced software and computer aided
techniques for urban analysis

Course Content:
• Space syntax: key concepts of space syntax and their development, spatial properties
- connectivity, integration, intelligibility, etc. - of the built environment and explore their
impact on user behavior, visual field/isovist characteristics - compactness, occlusivity,
clustering coefficient, etc. - of the built environment and explore their impact on user
behavior, analyse architectural and urban layouts using space syntax methods -
convex analysis, justified graph, axial analysis and visibility graph analysis.
• Overview of Auto CAD, SketchUp, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign
• Use of excel software for analyzing data; applications of features of excel- basic and
selected advanced features
• Data analysis: Advanced Excel, SPSS
• Technical report writing
Course Outcome:
Presentation of field based lab assignments.
Essential Readings:
• Hillier, B. & Hanson, J. (1984). The social logic of space. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
• Tal, Daniel. (2009). Google SketchUp for site design: a guide for modeling site plans,
terrain and architecture. John Wiley
• Gaur, Ajai S (2011). Statistical Methods for Practice and Research: A Guide to Data
Analysis Using SPSS. Response books, New Delhi
• Becker, Lucinda M. (2015). Writing Successful Reports and Dissertations. Los
Angeles. SAGE

Suggested Readings:
• Batty, M. (2001). "Exploring isovist fields: space and shape in architectural and urban
morphology," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28, 123-150.
• McClelland D. (2003). Photoshop 7 Bible Professional Edition. New York Wiley
Publishing.

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Subject: Elective-II Subject Code: MAUD0207 Credit: 2

Elective-I(A) Future Cities

Course Objective: To explore the forces that will direct the future of urban evolution
through deliberation on the ways new smart technological revolutions are redefining urban
life and their potential impact on the discipline of urban design.

Course outline: The course will address the ways in which big data can have an impact in
shaping urban theory, how autonomous vehicles will affect urban form, the new forms of
civic models in a data intensive world, the potential of IoT architectures in shaping new
urban experiences and the role and human impact of A.I. technologies in our cities of
tomorrow, as well as the new technologies that will drive future practices of urban
design. Students will complement the debate through guided group discussions in the
classroom, based on readings and written assignments.

Elective-I(B)- Landscape Urbanism

Course Objective: This subject will focus on the relationships between landscape,
ecology, and urbanism, and the theories, tactics, and workings of the field of Landscape
Urbanism.

Course outline: Through the lens of landscape, the subject operates within contemporary
conditions whereby urban environments are understood as interconnected and related
landscapes with far reaching implications at local and global scales. Their implications are
reflected in current environmental concerns such as climate change, energy crisis and
widespread pollution.

Course Outcome:
The subject shall culminate into end term paper written by student on the chosen topic
with periodic presentations.

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SEMESTER-III

Subject: Design Studio-3 Subject Code: MAUD0301 Credit: 12

Course Objective:

Designing in the transforming urban environment with a focus on urban regeneration,

participatory mechanisms or urban extensions. The studio will explore two themes in the
semester (as two studio explorations of 8 weeks, or a main studio component and a two week
collaborative intensive studio).

Course Content:

• Study of degraded urban fabric, patterns of decay, socio-political issues and urban
regeneration strategies/intervention to be explored in this studio.
• Shaping urban extensions through morphological approach, infrastructure inserts,
addressing environment concerns and imageability.
• The involvement of user groups and decision-making agencies is a part of the studio
methodology.

Course Outcome:

• Urban Design response in terms of guidelines/strategies, programme formulation,

design demonstration, phasing and feasibility analysis to address urban
transformations

Essential Readings:

• Trancik, R. (1986) Finding Lost Space – Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van
Nostrand Reinhold.
• Barnett, J., (1974). Urban design as Public Policy: Practical Methods for Improving
Cities. Michigan: Architectural Record Books.

Suggested Readings:

• Krier, L. (1978) Urban transformations (Special Issue) The Architectural Design, 48(1).

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Subject: Common Pool Subject Code: MAUD0302 Credit: 3

Elective
Elective-I(A) Urban Design Politics

Course Objective: To investigate the nature of the relations between urban form and
politics.

Course outline: This is a course about the ways that urban design contributes to the
distribution of political power and resources in cities. "Design," in this view, is not some
value-neutral aesthetic applied to efforts at urban development but is, instead, an integral
part of the motives driving that development. Though many urban designers and architects
often seem to regard "good design" as somehow independent from social and political
factors affecting its production and use, design efforts are influenced by politics in at least
two important ways. First, urban design proposals may be subject to challenge by a variety
of groups during the planning process. Second, political values, whether tacit or explicit, are
encoded in the resultant designs. The course investigates the nature of the relations
between built form and political purposes through close examination of a wide variety of
situations where public and private sector design commissions and planning processes
have been clearly motivated by political pressures, as well as situations where the political
assumptions have remained more tacit. Cases from both developed and developing
countries will be explored.

Elective-I(B)- City, People and Art

Course Objective: To reveal cities in their various aspects by learning from diverse art
forms.

Course outline: Every city is represented in its visual, performing and literary arts. The
city is either a constant backdrop or the central character in all valid artistic productions
which deal with urban situations. A city’s socio-cultural and morphological transformations
remain documented in its literature, paintings, plays and films and in spite of inevitable
changes in its urban fabric over time, certain images remain embedded in the public
memory of place, which are associated with the very identity of the city. In this elective,
learning from diverse arts pertaining to cities, would reveal cities in their various aspects
and equip a designer to take up critical design initiatives with a perception of the presence
of the past and the future and the presence of the particular, the locus solus. The course
will have a strong component of art generated by urban communities across cultures.

Elective-I(C)- Resilient Cities

Course Objective: To systematically understand urban resilience that connects both

man-made as well as natural conditions in the urban context.

Course outline:
Urban Resilience is a lens for addressing the challenges of cities, which grow ever more
complex as the world becomes more globalized and urbanized. This course will address
resilience as a process of community-context interaction where communities navigate and
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their wellbeing by altering urban adversities. The course focus is on culture of cities as an
accelerator to the social dimension of resilience by strengthening the social capital of a city,
fostering their expressions of creativity, encouraging cohesion and integration, and
promoting pluralism and equality in cities. The course will look at various models of resilient
cities and the role of urban design through emphasis on creativity, heritage, individual and
collective expression, the promotion of local knowledge systems and the protection of
cultural diversity.

Course Outcome:
The subject shall culminate into end term paper written by student on the chosen topic
with periodic presentations.

Subject: Urban Form Study- Subject Code: MAUD0303 Credit: 3

III City Discourses

Course Objective: Expose students to an advanced understanding of Urban form through

multidisciplinary theoretical discourses.

Course Content:

Cities and Culture

Overview of cross-cultural influences in city development
Subaltern urbanism, gentrification and, gender politics
Memory violence and urban space
Urban life-style diversity and spaces of consumption

Globalization and Cities

The politics of globalization and liberalization and their manifestations in the post-colonial city
From the geographies of modernity to post-modernity and beyond, the case example of any
Megalopolis and contemporary development trends across the world
Discoveries and implications of the post-metropolis, globalization and transnational urbanism
Contemporary trends in the Asian city, conflicts, contestations and hybridization within the
multilayered urbanities of Indian cities

Cities and Network Society

City as a human network - social structure and urban form
Big-Data and urban development studies
Virtual knowledge systems, consumption patterns and urban space

Course Outcome:

Progressive presentation culmination into a paper presentation.

Essential Readings:

• Colin Rowe, F. K., (1978). Collage City. Massachusetts: MIT Press.

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• Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown (1977) Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten
Symbolism of Architectural Form
• Cuthbert, A. R., (2011). Understanding Cities: Methods in Urban Design. New York:
Routledge.

Suggested Readings:

• Andres Duany, E. et al., (2000). Suburban Nation: The rise of sprawl and the Decline
of American Dream. New York: North point press.
• Ellin, N. (1999) Postmodern Urbanism. Vol. revised edition. New York: Princeton
architectural press.
• Hayden, D. (1997) The Power of Place, Urban Landscapes as Public History.
Cambridge: The MIT Press.
• Zukin, S. (1995) The Cultures of Cities. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
• Lefebvre, H., (1974). The Production of Space. Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell Ltd.
• Sassen, S., (2001). The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. New Jersey:
Princeton University press.
• Castells, M., (1996). Rise of a Networked Society. U.S.A: Blackwell Publishing.
• Steve Graham, S. M., 2001. Splintering Urbanism. London: Routledge.
• Harvey, D., (2012). Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution.
London: Verso.
• Sennet, R., (1977). The fall of Public Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

Subject: Urban Networks Subject Code: MAUD0304 Credit: 2

And Systems III
Ecology and Environment

Course Objective: To place urban design within the framework of environmental issues as
well as to provide an overview of efforts to mitigate the negative inputs from development.
The aim of the course is to inform the student of the latest theories and techniques available
as tools for design and development, create awareness of the legislative mechanisms for
environmental protection, climate change and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
Course Content:
• Introduction to urban ecology, notions of carrying capacity, human-nature interaction,
degradation of forests, land and water, housing resources and its impact on urban
environments, city design, management of resources.
• Environmental issues with respect to current problems like global warming, climate
change-how urban design play role in this dynamic natural world.
• Government policies, environmental laws and programmes, politics of environment in
cities and urban areas, ecological-economical discourse with respect to development
and case studies of meaningful urban design responding to nature and ecology.
• Overview of international and national policies and programmes - Stockholm
Conference, Bunntdland Commission, Earth Summit, Agenda 21, Habitat I, II & III,
Kyoto Protocol etc.

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• Strategies and concepts of sustainable development for resource conservation as

relevant to settlement planning & design
• Environmental Planning techniques - analysis of carrying capacity, ecological footprint
and land suitability, vulnerability assessment and microzonation, pollution modeling,
eco city development etc.
• Case studies of application of concepts at various scales - regional, settlement and
buildings (emphasis on urban eco systems green buildings, pollution control, energy
use, water harvesting, waste treatment, solid waste management etc.)
• Definition of environmental Impact assessment, methods of EIA, procedures - formats,
Important clearances, time frame, legal framework of EIA
• Climate change and cities- resilient cities, future cities
Course Outcome:
Students shall be judged on the basis of end term seminar in this subject. Periodic
assessment shall be scheduled to keep the constant progress of the seminar.

Essential Readings:
• Pickett.,S.T.A. et al., (2013). Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design: Linking Theory
and Practice for Sustainable Cities. Springer.
• Hahs, A.K. et. Al. (2009). Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach.
Cambridge University Press.

Suggested Readings:
• Douglas, Ian, ed.(2011). Routledge handbook of urban ecology. London. Routledge.
• Kulkarni V. S.,et al.(2002).,Handbook of EIA. Scientific Publishers, India
• EIA Manual, Ministry of Environment and Forests (2001), Govt. of India
• Hardy. J.T,(2003).Climate Change – Causes, Effects and Solutions, Wiley

Subject: Thesis Programming Subject Code: MAUD0305 Credit: 3

Course Objective:

Initiation into the thesis idea through rigorous process of literature review and case studies
culminating into an identified thesis proposal.

Course Content:

• Identifying the areas of interest in the contemporary or specific urban design theories
by simultaneously identifying current issues of urban design.
• Role of urban designer and the kind of approach required to the various issues and
application of theory and enquiry
• Conventional steps, stages and concept and framing a thesis/research proposal and
making a literature review
• Framing the issue or research question, approach and way of inquiry into probable
domains (Indian cities/specific precinct), literature review, relevant case studies,
writing the proposal for design /research based thesis

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Course Outcome:

Thesis proposal containing:

• Thesis title
• Literature review
• Best practices/Case studies
• Identified methodology
• Identified sites/demonstration areas
• Work schedule

Subject: Summer Subject Code: MAUD0306 Credit: 2

Internship
Course Objective: to undergo professional training and understand diverse aspects of
urban projects.

Course Content:
• Each student shall have to undergo professional training for a period of at least 6
weeks in an establishment approved by the department.
• The practical training will commence during the summer break between second and
third semester.
• Scope of services for different projects like master plan for urban area, zonal district
plan, sector/neighborhood; layout, group-housing schemes, commercial centers,
industrial estates, etc.
• Preparation of urban design programme and coordination of various authorities
• The internal assessment marks for the practical training will be awarded to each
student by the Prof. in charge in consultation with the course coordinator on the basis
of the performance report from the firm/organization under which the training was
carried out.
• The external jury will award the marks for the practical training on the basis of viva-
voce examination of the student on the work rendered by the student during training.
Course Outcome:
A student will be required to submit a performance report from the firm/organization under
which training is undertaken as well as a detailed report on the work carried out by him
during the training.

Subject: Urban Design Subject Code: MAUD0307 Credit: 2

Project Management
Course Objective: to introduce the students of the various methodologies, policies and
financial frameworks pertaining to urban projects.
Course Content:
• Introduction to Development Planning and management; Society, State and Market;
Privatization, Liberalization and Decentralization; Equity and Development
• Introduction to project planning, theories, concepts and management
• Overview of the various methodologies of project definition, planning and formulation.
• Norms, standards, aspects and methods of project appraisal

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• Concepts of Project management, systems, frameworks and techniques

• Implementation strategies, scheduling, activities, progress reviews, corrective actions
etc
• Economic and financial feasibility concepts and methods
• Project funding, economic feasibility and methods of recovery
• Mandatory legal and environmental approvals
• Special projects such as special economic zones, export processing zones, townships
etc.
• Case studies of successful projects and planning schemes are encouraged to be used
as learning models.

Course Outcome:
Students shall be judged on the basis of periodic assessment through assignments.

Essential Readings:

• A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (2008). Fourth Edition.

Project Management Institute, USA.
• Sears. S.K, et. al.(2008) Construction project management: A Practical Guide to Field
Construction Management. John Wiley & sons
• Chitkara. K. K. (1998). Construction Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and
Controlling. Tata McGraw-Hill
• Chandra. P. (2008). Financial Management. Tata McGraw-Hill
• Ramaswamy B. S., (2003) Contracts and their Management. Lexis Nexis
• Batra.L. (2009). A Review of Urbanisation and Urban Policy in Post-Independent India
(Working Paper Series). JNU

Suggested Readings:
• PAR, DSR, DAR, etc. and contract documents by CPWD.
• CPWD, MES, FIDIC, JCT, ADB, World bank, etc.: General & Special conditions of
contract and standard operating procedures.
• Shaw, Annapurna. (1996). Urban Policy in Post-Independent India: An Appraisal.
Economic and political weekly. 31. 224-228.
• Harvey, D. (1989). From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in
Urban Governance in Late Capitalism. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human
Geography, 71(1), 3-17

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SEMESTER IV

Subject: Design Thesis Subject Code: MAUD0401 Credit: 20

Course Objective:

An opportunity to undertake independent research enabling students to apply principles of

Urban Design at an advanced level, generating design proposals/research thinking to
complex urban issues in diverse urban settings.

Course Content:

This thesis is a self-directed exploration of an urban design topic of the students' choice,
which may be submitted for examination in the form of a Research Thesis Alone OR a
Written Dissertation with a Design Proposal. Both types of products are presented to an
external jury for final review where students are expected to position their work in the context
of contemporary urban design theory and to defend their research conclusions and/or design
propositions with context to application of the contemporary urban design theory and practice.
The students will work on and complete the written master thesis independently. In the
process, they will develop their own position and viewpoint with regard the concept-,
planning-, or design-oriented theme that they have drawn from their research and practical
experience. The students will choose the theme themselves and develop a research proposal
on it (the enquiry might be carried out by design or by research methods) and eventually
concluding in a design or a written thesis and it should correspond to the advanced level of
knowledge gained in the subject area Urban Design.

Course Outcome:

• Final submission in the form of thesis report, drawings, and models as stated in the
Thesis Manual.

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Subject: Report Writing Subject Code: MAUD0402 Credit: 3

Course Objective:

The course will run parallel to the design/research thesis with intent to help students to
progressively refine and complete the thesis report.

Course Content:

The course will help students in creatively and critically writing about the various theoretical
explorations undertaken in the thesis.
This thesis report will include the title page, abstract, table of content, list of tables, illustrations,
graphs, diagrams, introduction, literature review, methodology, precedents – exemplars – best
practice, design: site, analysis, design, exploration, options, conclusions, further studies,
bibliography, annexes and appendices. The above list is just indicative. Students may use
different terminology to name the different parts/sections of their research or the general
structure may differ from the above mentioned due to the nature of the research.

Course Outcome:

The Thesis Report will be in A4 Format and will also contain A3 folded prints of sheets and
maps. Word limit of the report would be from minimum 10000 words to maximum 20000
words.

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Subject: Urban Studies Lab Subject Code: MAUD0403 Credit: 2

Course Objective: The Urban Studies Lab will give an opportunity (in a span of four
semesters including summer and winter breaks) for explorations on urban form and also
collective pursuits of design of cities. The objective of urban studies laboratories is to allow
free experimentation and in-depth inquiry into the patterns and processes of cities as well as
connected production of urban form and space.
Course Content:
Students may choose from any of the following:
• Workshops- Minimum number of days should be 1 week
• Winter/Summer schools /Certificate Courses (in the realm of Urban design/Urban
Studies) opted for should be certified by recognized universities
• For Urban Design competitions, the work will be evaluated and credited by a team of
experts. Maximum persons in a group should be 4. (or as decided by the subject
coordinator)
• For paper presentations/ publication in journals, magazines etc., maximum number of
students in a group would be 2. (or as decided by the subject coordinator)

Note: For all the above, prior discussion, selection and sanction of the type/
scale/mode of exercise to be adopted need to be done with the subject coordinator
(s). It is required to establish connection to Urban Design.
Course Outcome:

Presentation and report of exploratory studies with policy input carried out successfully by the
student in the span of the course, the evaluation of which would be conducted in the 4th
Semester.

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