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Urban and Regional Planning Education

Learning for India

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Editors:
  1. Ashok Kumar

    1. Department of Physical Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India

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  2. Diwakar S. Meshram

    1. Institute of Town Planners, New Delhi, India

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  3. Krishne Gowda

    1. University of Mysore, Institute of Development Studies, Mysore, India

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Making a Beginning

    • Ashok Kumar
    Pages 1-13

  3. Emerging Ideas of Urban and Regional Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Energizing Planning Education in India

      • Diwakar S. Meshram, Swati Meshram
      Pages 17-32

    3. Planning Education for a Smart Urban India

      • Rolee Aranya, Chetan Vaidya
      Pages 33-45

    4. History of Indian Human Settlements—Lessons for Planning Education

      • N. Sridharan
      Pages 47-60

    5. Positioning Urban Governance in Planning Pedagogy

      • Tathagata Chatterji, Aparna Soni
      Pages 61-77

  4. Urban and Regional Planning Knowledges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. An Exploration into the Multiplicity of Planning Knowledges

      • Ashok Kumar
      Pages 81-91

    3. Imparting Inclusive Education to the Next Generation of Planners Through Participatory Learning: A Case of the Global Studio Bhopal

      • Krishna Kumar Dhote, Preeti Onkar Singh
      Pages 93-106

    4. Need for a Shift in Pedagogy for Teaching Fundamentals of Planning Education

      • Natraj Kranthi, A. L. Valliappan
      Pages 107-114

    5. Spreading Planning Knowledge in General Education

      • H. S. Champa, Gayathri Viswanathan
      Pages 115-122

    6. Integrating Planning Knowledges: A Case of HUDCO

      • T. G. Girish Karnad
      Pages 123-143

    7. Field Experiences of an Interdisciplinary Research in Planning: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on a Small River in Gujarat

      • Bhawana Vasudeva
      Pages 145-156
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About this book

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India. Prior to the 1990s, planning education in India was largely confined to national and local economic concerns. Within a globalized scenario, such pedagogies and theories have become outmoded. With new concerns emerging in planning, new pedagogical tools and theorizations need to be developed within planning curricula to provide today’s planners with the wherewithal to adapt to changing and globalizing cities and regions in India. Therefore, the eminent contributors to this volume deal exclusively and comprehensively with planning education in a globalized context. Divided into four thematic sections, this volume provides a comprehensive view of planning education in India, with focus on:
 
• 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

  • Department of Physical Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India

    Ashok Kumar

  • Institute of Town Planners, New Delhi, India

    Diwakar S. Meshram

  • 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

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