Planning Principle and Practice

At the end of the course, students are expected to: 1. identify the components of rural and urban land use; 2. illustrate the relationship between standards and the various land uses and the specialised areas; 3. demonstrate the primordial role of the concept of zoning in planning practice; and 4. illustrate the role of urban renewal techniques in slum upgrade.

Components of Urban and Regional Land use. Relationships between planning standard and city size, culture, transport, Building Technology. Standards for various land use including those of specialized areas, destitute centres and old people’s homes, barracks, mixed land use, campuses. Concepts, objective of planning, planning process, (zoning, types of zoning/mixed land use, floating, conditional/contractual and phase zoning). Analysis and classification of urban land uses. Coding, slum and urban renewal; Techniques for identifying slums and degraded areas plus new town development. Principles and development.