Course Overview

This course aims to introduce the tools and techniques to critically analyse the issues related to housing. This course provides a scope to replicate the theoretical notion of the course URP 3245 in the real life exercises. This course helps the students to synthesize housing design process and also helps them to identify the critical issues involved with housing of the urban poor.

Course Objectives

It is expected that upon completion of the course student will learn the following issues:

·       Residential Area Characteristics

·       Economics of Housing

·       Methods of Housing Strategy Formulation

·       Challenges and Scopes of Pro-poor Housing Practices

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

At the end of the course the students will be able to:

·       Assess issues and practices related to housing;

·       Formulate urban housing strategy;

·       Apply different theoretical underpinning and tools of housing strategies.