Course Overview

This course is designed to provide students ideas of planning in ancient cities and recent past. It will explain the evolution of human settlements in the course of the time and their growth. Planning was evolved and changed time to time to adapt the changing circumstances. It is important for planning students to know the history of city development and associated planning practices. It is a medium of learning from the past to avoid fault as well as the planning responses in different social, economic and cultural context. 

Course Objectives

The course will help students to gain knowledge in:

·       Evolution of human settlement and cities

·       Social, political and economic context of birth, rise and growth of settlements

·       Emergence, context and contents  of urban planning ideas

·       The history of settlements in Bangladesh and its context

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

At the end of the course, the students will be able to-

·       Identify how history influenced evolution of cities and settlement;

·       Demonstrate how social, economic, political and other factors influences birth, Flourishment and death of great human civilizations;

·       Build up key planning ideas and concepts in history;

·       Produce context specific planning and arrange the nature of human settlement.