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Urban and Regional Planning Education Ashok Kumar • Diwakar S. Meshram Krishne Gowda Editors Urban and Regional Planning Education Learning for India 123 Editors Ashok Kumar Krishne Gowda Department of Physical Planning Institute of Development Studies School of Planning and Architecture University of Mysore New Delhi, NCT Delhi Mysore, Karnataka India India Diwakar S. Meshram Institute of Town Planners New Delhi, NCT Delhi India ISBN 978-981-10-0607-4 ISBN 978-981-10-0608-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0608-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016933800 © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd. This book is dedicated to all those students and faculty colleagues who have inspired us to put these papers together. Acknowledgements Completion of this book is due to the generous support offered by a number of individuals and organizations. University of Mysore, Karnataka; School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; and the Institute of Town Planners, India, have supported this project from the start by helping organize the international confer- ence where prominent educationists and planning professionals were invited to present papers on one of the most important subjects of planning education in India. This book is an outcome of the selected papers that were presented at this inter- national conference titled ‘Town and Country Planning: Retrospect and Prospect’ from 21 to 23 November 2014 at the University of Mysore. The editors particularly thank Prof. K.S. Rangappa, Chief Patron and Vice Chancellor of the University of Mysore for his unwavering support and encour- agement to make this publication a reality. We also express our gratitude to the Steering Committee of the conference, specifically Prof. Chetan Vaidya, Director, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; Prof. Ajay Khare, then Director, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal; and Prof. N. Sreedharan, then Director, School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada. We also thank national and international members on the Steering Committee of the conference. Without the contributors’ time and efforts it would not be possible to produce quality papers for this book. We thank all the national and international contributors for their wholehearted involvement in this book project. Preparing a manuscript for publication is as difficult a task for editors as it is for the publishers. At Springer India we got all timely help that was needed to prepare the manuscript. The editors specifically thank Ms. Shruti Raj and Ms. Shinjini Chatterjee of Springer India for their untiring efforts in helping us prepare the manuscript for this volume. We remain grateful to all others who could not be mentioned by name. New Delhi, India Ashok Kumar January 2016 Diwakar S. Meshram Krishne Gowda vii Contents 1 Introduction: Making a Beginning ........................ 1 Ashok Kumar Part I Emerging Ideas of Urban and Regional Planning 2 Energizing Planning Education in India .................... 17 Diwakar S. Meshram and Swati Meshram 3 Planning Education for a Smart Urban India ................ 33 Rolee Aranya and Chetan Vaidya 4 History of Indian Human Settlements—Lessons for Planning Education ................................ 47 N. Sridharan 5 Positioning Urban Governance in Planning Pedagogy .......... 61 Tathagata Chatterji and Aparna Soni Part II Urban and Regional Planning Knowledges 6 An Exploration into the Multiplicity of Planning Knowledges ......................................... 81 Ashok Kumar 7 Imparting Inclusive Education to the Next Generation of Planners Through Participatory Learning: A Case of the Global Studio Bhopal ....................... 93 Krishna Kumar Dhote and Preeti Onkar Singh 8 Need for a Shift in Pedagogy for Teaching Fundamentals of Planning Education ................................. 107 Natraj Kranthi and A.L. Valliappan ix x Contents 9 Spreading Planning Knowledge in General Education .......... 115 H.S. Champa and Gayathri Viswanathan 10 Integrating Planning Knowledges: A Case of HUDCO .......... 123 T.G. Girish Karnad 11 Field Experiences of an Interdisciplinary Research in Planning: Stakeholders’ Perspectives on a Small River in Gujarat ..................................... 145 Bhawana Vasudeva Part III Urban and Regional Planning Ethics 12 Role of Silences in Planning: Spatiality, Diversity and Power .......................................... 159 Ashok Kumar 13 Ethics and Planning Education in India .................... 181 Poonam Prakash 14 Relationship Between Planning Education and Planning Profession After the Market Reforms ...................... 193 Nitin Saolapurkar 15 Ethics in Town and Country Planning Education in India: Environments and Contexts ...................... 203 Abdul Razak Mohamed 16 Value Education in Planning for an Effective Professional Outreach ........................................... 211 Srikonda Ramesh 17 Urbanization, Sustainable Development and the Need for Ethics in Planning Education ......................... 221 D. Ravishankar, Krishne Gowda and M.V. Sridhara Part IV International Perspectives on Planning Education 18 The Place of Time in Planning Education ................... 235 John Minnery 19 Planning Education in an International Perspective: Making the Most from Global and Local Knowledges .......... 245 Raffaele Paloscia 20 The Changing Context for Planning Education in the UK and the Prospects for Research-Led, Practice-Engaged Teaching ........................................... 257 Geraint Ellis, Brendan Murtagh and Lisa Copeland Contents xi 21 Indicators: From Counting to Communicating................ 273 Javier Martínez and Emile Dopheide 22 Sharing Planning Skills Across Borders: International Volunteers Helping Build Planning Capacity in Zambia .......................................... 295 Peter Cockhead and M.C. Hemalatha Part V Conclusion 23 Conclusions: The Future of Planning Education in India ........ 319 Ashok Kumar Editors and Contributors About the Editors Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning stu- dents 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. Diwakar S. Meshram 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 9 years when he got prepared the model curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more than 2 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 posi- tion of Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore for nearly 6 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. xiii xiv Editors and Contributors Contributors Rolee Aranya Department of Urban Design and Planning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway H.S. Champa The University School of Design, University of Mysore, Mysore, India Tathagata Chatterji School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India Peter Cockhead Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Lisa Copeland School of