1. The Planning Program @
CEPT

2. Faculty of Planning
• The Faculty of Planning was established in 1972 as
School of Planning, to prepare professionals who
would work towards sustainable, equitable and
orderly development of human settlements.
• Graduates would contribute to development
through facilitating better access to land and
housing, infrastructure services and employment
opportunities in urban and regional space.
• The endeavor has been to educate and train
professionals with interdisciplinary knowledge and
skills, and the ability to work from the local to the
regional.
• Faculty of Planning offers undergraduate and
postgraduate programs leading to
• Bachelor of Planning and
• Master of Planning Degrees.
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3. Visiting the current planning
issues
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Urban Planning Issues in Transitional and
Developing Countries
Main elements of desirable role of urban planning
(Planning interventions/Approaches/tools)
Urbanization and demographic trends
Housing, water supply and sanitation needs
Manage Urban development process
Spatial and built form related needs of multicultural cities
Educational, training, sports and recreational needs of youth
City size and spatial form (suburbanization, peri- Trunk infrastructure,
urbanization, metropolitanization)
Effective planning and governance
Innovative ways of dealing with informality
Urban economic contexts
Urban poverty
Informality
Facilitating livelihoods through local economic development
Community empowerment
Public and private sector partnerships to improve local economy
Flexible land use management
Vulnerability to natural and human disasters
Land-use planning,
building codes,
protecting critical infrastructure
rehabilitation of human settlements
increasing overall resilience
Institutional and professional capacity
Revisiting directive and regulatory aspects of plans
Prioritizing Urban policy at national scale
Decentralization of planning functions
Monitoring and evaluation of urban plans

4. The Definition and Role of
Planning
Planner = Who?
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Competences
•Should be able to read and analyze a
neighborhood, city or region. A planner
should be able to articulate an areas
problems, identify forces of change acting
upon it and be able to see its potential.
•Should know how to listen to and
understand residents’ problems and
aspiration and help to articulate them
better
•Must be able to decipher the politics of a
place so as to be able facilitate
compromises, agree upon priorities,
formulate agendas and build consensus
•Should have presentation and rhetorical
skills to be able to convince people and
build consensus
•Should be able to view habitats
comprehensively while appreciating the
specificity of their various dimensions; shift
between details and the big picture
•Should know strategies and solutions that
have been tried across the world in solving
similar problems.
•Envision an alternative futures,
communicate it and build consensus around
it
•Decide in the face of uncertainty; decide
by making trade offs; decide within
resource constraint
•Build a comprehensive road map to realize
the vision agreed upon; delineate a set of
implementable projects, programs and
regulations
•Should be able to work in teams and, when
required, lead them.

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The Bachelors Program

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Competences
•Value and paradigm
•Imagining future
(predictive)
•Problem identification
(diagnostic)
•Allocator/ distributor of
resources
•Decision-making
•Animating local processes
•Negotiations
•Regulation to reduce
dominance of special
interest groups
•Evaluation

7. Course Structure
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Genres of Core Courses
Generalist Planner to be taught
A.core ( multidisciplinary ) concepts,
B.skills / techniques and
C.introductory thematic /specialization courses
A. Skills / Techniques/ Methods
Quantitative & qualitative research methods
Spatial skills & GIS
Communication Skills : Visual, Written, Spoken
Negotiations & Decision making : Participatory tools
Program & Project Evaluations
B. Concepts
Planning History & Theory
Sociology
Economics
Politics & Governance of Planning
Development & Public Finance
Professional practice and Ethics
Ecology & Environment
Physical Environment
C. Thematic / Specialization
Housing,
Environmental Planning,
Infrastructure Planning,
Transportation,
Rural development

8. The Undergraduate Program
Mandatory Programme , 160 Cr (80%)
Elective Programme , 40 Cr (20%)
Sem. 2
Specialization
Concepts/ Practice
Core Concepts
Skills
Sem.1
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Internship
Thesis
B.Plan

9. The Undergraduate Program
Courses
A. Skills/
Methods /
Techniques
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Course Theme
Course Content
Quantitative and
Statistical and Quantitative Methods (Concepts, tutorials &
qualitative methods software)
(also field techniques) Qualitative methods
Spatial skills and GIS Surveying & Levelling
Geo Information in Planning
(Concepts, tutorials
and software CAD, GIS)
Communication skills, Visual Communications (Technical Drawing,
Graphical
techniques, free hand sketching, software)
Written & Spoken proficiency *
Negotiations &
Participatory methods
Decision making
Program & Project
evaluation
Project Formulation: Appraisal and Management

10. The Undergraduate Program
Courses
B. Concepts Development
Economics
Planning theory
Elements of Economics
Urban & Regional Economics
Urban & Regional location theories, land use & transport
theories, demography
Planning process & Development paradigms
Urban and planning Settlement History
History
Sociology
Settlement Sociology / Human Ecology
Politics &
Politics, Public administration & Institutions,, Urban
Governance of
Management, Planning Legislation
Planning
Development &
Public/Urban Finance
Public finance
Professional ethics – Professional practice, human values & ethics
planning practice
Ecology and
Ecology, Resources & sustainable Development
Environmental Planning
Environment
Physical Planning & Building structures, materials & principles of construction
Built environment Culture, Climate & Technology in built Environment,
Environment Design
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11. The Undergraduate Program
Courses
C. Thematic / Housing Introduction to Housing, Housing & Community Planning,
Specialization
Planning & Management of Informal Settlements
Courses Infrastruct Introduction to Urban Infrastructure Planning : Urban utilities,
ure
Traffic & Transportation
Planning
Electives Real Estate Planning & Management, Urban Renewal ,Urban
Environmental Services etc. etc.
Transportation modelling, Sustainable Urban Development,
Environmental Impact Assessment, Spatial Statistics etc.
etc…
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The Masters Program

13. The Existing Program
2 Years, 4 Semesters, 100 Intake
Professional Degree (Masters in
Planning)

14. Relook at the Existing Program
2 Years, 4 Semesters, 100 Intake
Professional Degree (Masters in Planning)
Restructured Program

16. The Student gets
Masters in Planning with a Major in Urban and
Regional Planning

18. The Student gets
Only Masters in Planning Degree

20. The Student gets
• Only M. Plan Degree Major in URP and Minor in
Housing

21. Urban and Regional Planning
Domain Courses
1Urban & Regional Infrastructure System2Built Form and Land Use planning3Urban and Regional TransportationA urban planning Studio- (Development
planning & Strategies at city scale)- 8
Credits
1 Regional Planning & Development
2 Rural Development
3 Political science & governance
B Regional planning Studio( planning & Strategies at Regional scale)8 Credits
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22. Environment Domain Courses
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Environmental Planning and Science (Sem II)
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Energy, Climate Change and Development (Sem III)
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Environment and Quality of Life (Sem III)
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Natural Resources Management (Sem II)
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Environmental Economics (Sem III)
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Environment and Social Impact Assessment (Sem III)
Environmental Legislation, Administration and Governance (Sem II)
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23. Housing Domain Courses
Fundamentals of Housing
Built Form and Land Use Planning
Housing Economics and Finance
Housing Programme and Project Development & Evaluation
Land Development and Management Practices
Urban Development and Real Estate
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24. Housing Domain Courses
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Environmental Planning and Science (Sem II)
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Energy, Climate Change and Development (Sem III)
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Environment and Quality of Life (Sem III)
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Natural Resources Management (Sem II)
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Environmental Economics (Sem III)
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Environment and Social Impact Assessment (Sem III)
Environmental Legislation, Administration and Governance (Sem II)
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25. Urban Infrastructure Domain
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26. Urban Transport Domain
Transport Planning and Modelling
•Overview of urban transport system
•Transport planning and its linkage with land
use planning
•Transport Planning Process- Policies and Plans
•Transport data collection and analysis
•Demand forecasting
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Transport Infrastructure Planning and
Design
•Design of streets & intersections
•Planning & design of infrastructure for
pedestrians and cyclists
•Design of multi-modal public transport
infrastructure, such as interchanges,
terminals, depots, workshops, and turnarounds.
Public Transport Planning
Transport Finance
•Different PT modes
•PT network planning principles
•Performance measurements
•Legislations governing the
urban public transport sector
•Financial Analysis and
viability analysis of transport
projects
•Financing options
• Case analysis of different
type of transport projects
Transport Economics
•True costs of transport and to
measure them.
•Transport demand & supply
concepts
•Costing & pricing of transport
•Economic appraisal principles
and transport regulation.