Course Overview

With thriving planning education and campaign, several regulatory guidelines has been prepared and practiced to control urban growth and management. Strict control modalities are now in place (for many cities) to contain and manage urban expansion. This course has been designed to train student with appropriate skill and knowledge for area and site planning. This will cover designing new area for residential and industrial activities. This course will also offer students to know about different land adjustment techniques.

Course Objectives

This course will help students in gaining understanding and knowledge in:

·       Site selection for estate development

·       Site analysis for neighbourhood design

·       Policy and practices in designing a neighbourhood

·       Standard for land allocation for different purposes

·       Different layout pattern of roads and infrastructure

·       Plotting and adjustment honour natural and important man made features

·       Area and cost estimation for developing a neighbourhood

·       Developing project document 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

After completing this course students will be able to:

·       Perform site analysis exercises and sub-division planning;

·       Articulate drafting skill;

·       Develop CAD and graphics skill;

·       Operate Google Earth, AutoCAD and ArcGIS software interchangeably;

·       Estimate the cost;

·       Produce proposals

Course Overview

Under this course, students will be introduced to SPSS and STATA. SPSS is a well-established statistical and data analysis program with a range of facilities for data manipulation and offers many procedures for statistical analysis. STATA, on the other hand, is a command based application, can perform same as SPSS. The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to SPSS and STATA for performing the theoretical statistical analysis in a computer-aided platform. The course includes a basic guide for creating SPSS file and creating, recoding and computing new variables, followed by basic analytical commands to display simple descriptive statistics, frequencies, cross-tabulations, means, t-tests, correlation and regression. The production of simple graphics and dealing with missing values within the data will also be covered.

Course Objectives

The course will help students to gain understanding and knowledge in:

·       Data types, variable declaration and data entry

·       Data cleaning, sorting for good database preparation

·       Conducting differential statistics

·       Performing inferential statistics

·       Analyzing multiple responses and missing values

·       Database conversion in different format

·       Data interpretation and support in decision making

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

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

·       Evaluate data types and their relative parameters;

·       Perform statistical analysis with the computer application;

·       Demonstrate large scale database and infer decision from the data and analyses;

·       Perform hypothesis testing for decision making;

·       Construct model with dependent and independent variable.

Course Overview

For building liveable space and ensuring quality urban life the importance of landscape is paramount in urban land use, planning and development. Whereas urban design is concerned about designing and shaping cities towards an urban renaissance.

Course Objectives

The learning objectives of this course are as follows:

·       To provide practical understanding about the theoretical notion of urban space with regard to landscape, urban design criteria, diversity of use, temporal activities and qualities

·       To  offer insight into the place making using design and landscaping criteria

·       To practically orientate students to the approaches and the concepts that inform intervention at planning and design scale 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

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

·       Understand of key urban design agenda and criteria;

·       Apply urban design principles and landscape elements in analyzing quality of urban space;

·       Analyse the landscape design principles necessary to appreciate urban open spaces;

·       Design space following urban design criteria and landscaping elements and design principles.

Course Overview

This course offers the basic knowledge of social psychology and its theoretical aspects. In addition, through the discussion of diverse socio-psychological topics, this course enhances our explanations about social problems through improving the social cognition as well as social perception of our everyday lives.

Course Objectives

The course will help students to advance their understanding and knowledge in:

·       Various types of social situation and cultural differences in social cognition

·       Culture and social perception, and links between urban and rural culture

·       Situational determinants of pro-social behaviour

·       Social situations and aggression in reference to gender 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

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

·       Understand the various types of social situations from socio-psychological aspects;

·       Demonstrate complex social problems;

·       Demonstrate the importance of the knowledge of social psychology with urban and rural planning while initiating and executing any kind of plans;

·       Identify and comply our everyday issues critically and make commentary on those issues in reference with their own personal experiences.