City and Metropolitan Planning
Overview
Upon Completion of this course, students will:
- Understand the dichotomy between the urban and natural environment and resources
- Understand the significance of city-region linkages and inter-dependence.
- Understand the complex nature of issues, process specifically at metro and mega cities scale.
- Understand how to develop indicators to measure various environmental, social and economic qualities of urban areas.
- Be familiar with concepts such as climate change, green infrastructure, transit oriented development
- Be familiar with approaches to human settlement planning
- Be familiar with major urban policies and programmes at various levels and how they impact a city’s development.
- Be familiar with acts and legal tools relevant to city planning.
- Be familiar with finance and management aspects of urban development.