Rationale

This course aims to introduce the theoretical underpinnings of different planning approaches. It discusses the major planning paradigms and issues in contemporary urban planning practices. This course also discusses different challenges associated with urban development from a third-world perspective. It also familiarizes students with different theoretical, organizational, and practical issues involved in urban development.

Course content (Section A)

1. Theoretical Assumptions of Different Planning Approaches: Substantive and Procedural

2. Different practice approaches of planning: Strategic, Spatial, and Growth management

3. Issues for planning practice: Politics, and colonial legacy 

4. Evolution of Planning Practice and Institutions in Bangladesh: Historical Overview of Planning Practices in Bangladesh, Brief Profile of Different Institutions Involved in the Planning Practice in Bangladesh. 

Course content (Section B)

6. Tools of Plan Preparation and Implementation: Plan Preparation: Participatory Planning, Actor Mapping, Negotiations and Conflict Management, Planning Standards, Development Control: Zoning (Use, height, Density), Building Code, Sub-Division Regulations. 

7. Development and Land Management: Approach to Fringe Area Development (Land Readjustment, Guided Land Development, Land Banking, Area Improvement Plan, Infrastructure-led Development Plan). 

8. Issues in Contemporary Urban Planning: Sustainable Urban Development; New Challenges for Planned Urban Intervention. 

9. Challenging Definitions of Urban Governance and Urban Poverty: Implications for Urban Policy, Planning and Management in the 21st Century. 

10. Urban Regeneration and Gentrification.