Overview
The first book on planning education that is completely dedicated to planning education in India with global perspectives
Contributions by prominent educators and professionals, written in simple and accessible language
Sections on ethics and gaps in planning courses provide future directions for pedagogy development
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(23 chapters)
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Emerging Ideas of Urban and Regional Planning
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Urban and Regional Planning Knowledges
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Urban and Regional Planning Ethics
Keywords
- pedagogy of planning courses
- planning in urban design
- guidelines for conversation planning
- value education in planning
- ethics in planning education
- inclusiveness in planning education
- Indian planning academy
- town planning education
- history of planning education in India
- landscape/regional and urban planning
About this book
• The trajectory of planning education in India.
• The kinds of knowledge used for teaching in Indian planning schools, and whether some sort of integration of diverse knowledges is achieved.
• The ethical foundations of urban and regional planning in Indian planning schools.
• The role of international planning perspectives in providing new insights for Indian planning education.
Comprehensive and topical, this volume is of interest to academics and researchers from planning institutes, urban and regional planners and policy makers, as well as architects, social geographers and economists.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Physical Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Ashok Kumar
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Institute of Town Planners, New Delhi, India
Diwakar S. Meshram
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University of Mysore, Institute of Development Studies, Mysore, India
Krishne Gowda
About the editors
Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning students
at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi since the last 23 years
after finishing his doctorate from the University of Liverpool, U.K. Widely
known for his expertise in spatial justice, capabilities and planning, and
collaborative planning theory, Prof. Kumar has published nearly 100 papers in
national and international journals, authored, edited, and co-edited 10 books,
and contributed over 20 book chapters. Currently he is Editor of the ITPI
Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India. Previously he has been Editor
of SPACE: The SPA Journal of Planning and Architecture published by SPA New
Delhi.
Formerly
Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Organization, New Delhi for more than
12 years, Dr. D.S. Meshram has greatly influenced the planning profession in
India since the last four decades. Currently Dr. Meshram is the President of
the Institute of Town Planners, India. Prior to this Dr. Meshram has held the
position of Chairman of the All India Board of Town and Country Planning
Education of AICTE for nine years when he got prepared the model curricula both
for undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more than two years
Dr. Meshram was appointed Advisor (Urban Development) to Government of Uttarakhand.
Krishne Gowda is the Director at the University School of Design, University of Mysore, Karnataka since December 2014. Before this Prof. Gowda held the position of Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore for nearly six years. He has been working as a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University for over 12 years. So far he has supervised 16 doctoral students. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers in journals, and also authored and co-authored 8 book chapters. He is a great organizer of academic events.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban and Regional Planning Education
Book Subtitle: Learning for India
Editors: Ashok Kumar, Diwakar S. Meshram, Krishne Gowda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0608-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0607-4Published: 10 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9208-4Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0608-1Published: 27 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 333
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cities, Countries, Regions