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This course focuses on planning policies and regulations, fundamentals of sustainable zoning and land use regulations and planning standards.   

This course revolves around man and his environment with emphasis on the design of the outdoor environment.  It is divided into three parts.  The first part introduces Man-Environment relationship and its related problems.  It then gives a historical account regarding Man's attempts to alter the environment - especially the landscape - to suit his aesthetically and functional needs (physical and spiritual).  The following two parts focus on the approaches and techniques in landscape planning and design.  In landscape planning (regional level) problems of classification, assessment and evalu

Planning has suffered a crisis in confidence reflected in the growing consensus about its inability to

Neighborhoods remain an important locus of everyday life.

The course provides the theoretical insight and practical skills

The course provides the theoretical insight and practical skills

The course helps students to further reinforce the knowledge acquired in the first seminar series and to enable them to discuss issues pertaining to the Urban Design Project material.   

Each student will be required to submit a

The course helps students to strengthen their ability to do guided research, make a report on technical issues and present these issues in a scientific set up. While lecturers will give the students guidelines on the topics to research on, they will not formally teach them in class.

This course focuses on planning policies and regulations, fundamentals of sustainable zoning and land use regulations and planning standards.