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Model making techniques, tools and materials, use and care of tools, workshop practices. Procedure and guide for models making, Preparation of three-dimensional planning models and map models such as residential areas, neighbourhood centres, community centres, hospitals, primary and secondary schools.

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.

To introduce the students to the urban foci of intensive activities, their functioning, location, physical structure and special problems, students will conduct relevant surveys in areas such as land use, circulation, parking, conflict points, spatial differentiation, utilities and the general environment. Existing problems like congestion, incompatible uses, encroachment, are to be emphasized and recommendations for improvement presented. In addition, a study of planning models types such as iconic, analogue, symbolic, descriptive, predictive and other related currently in existence must be examined. Each studio design must be based on a specific planning concept and accompanied by a technical report and modelling.

Residential Community/Neighbourhood Design. Neighbourhood Design and Housing Layout. Concept of planned and integrated development of residential areas. Spatial differentiation into distinct units of neighbourhood, and the physical, social and functional components of the neighbourhood units, its structure and density. Design of housing layout and plot subdivision as a detailed aspect of neighbourhood planning based on relevant environmental factors (topography and vegetation). Preparation of a detailed layout of a would-be site, including quantitative projections for anticipated population densities, site occupancy, two- and three-dimensional forms.

Traffic and Transportation Planning and Design. Studio project in traffic and transportation planning in a small town or a part of a city. Applications of principles and analytical techniques of urban traffic planning. Traffic surveys; 0-D surveys, cordon counts, parking surveys and accident surveys. Analysis and presentation of traffic data; forecasting future traffic; transportation networks planning and traffic routing; road geometric design, carry a design to solve an identified traffic problem in the society.

Urban renewal and assessment of housing needs, housing problems and devising of appropriate solution. Goals, principles and methods of urban renewal. Social culture and socio- economic effects of urban renewal. costs and benefits of urban renewal schemes. Management of urban schemes. Case studies of urban renewal schemes. Students are therefore expected to conduct preliminary field survey, carry out a design of questionnaires, collect data, analyse and come up with a design as a solution to urban decay in a core area of a chosen inner city.

Comprehensive Urban Planning: Introduces the students to the concepts of comprehensive urban development and its application to small and medium size settlements, field survey, data collection, analysis of data and projection models, development criteria including plan goals and objectives, master plan for the future growth of the settlement, AutoCAD and modelling. Production of a regional master plan.

Projects on city centre renewal and devising appropriate planning solutions with emphasis on the urban metropolitan core area. Methods and techniques of preparing local plans, briefs should include; a case study of a particular metropolitan area, survey of identified area, design of questionnaires, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings and presentation of technical reports to be submitted after presentations to the external examiner. The presentations which must be in AutoCAD or GIS, must be in 2D and 3D; and accompanied by a model of the improved situation of the metropolitan area.

Field survey, data collection, analysis and production of a new tow, The design of new towns and capital cities and their respective master and structure plans. Socio-cultural, environmental and aesthetic considerations of settlement design. The studio project will synthesize design concepts and design techniques applicable to pre-planned new settlements in Nigeria. Produce a two- and three-dimensional perspectives of the design new town.

The purpose, philosophy and nature of planning. The scope and limit of urban and regional planning. Framework for planning and the political, social and economic variables. Ethics and social justice in planning and rising conflicts. Theories in/for planning and theories of planning. The nature of planning theory. Theory of planning and theory in planning. Normative descriptive, and prescriptive theories of planning. Evolution of town planning philosophy. The planning process, management and decision – making in planning process; the dynamic of political, social, cultural and economic variables. The planner’s role and functions. Citizen’s participation and evaluation in the planning process.