Humane Approach to Urban Planning Final
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The book presents a humane approach to urban planning in India by incorporating Indian cultural peculiarities, habits, and user preferences that are often ignored in current planning practices which are based on European and North American norms. It establishes that Indian users have distinct preferences due to socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural differences. The book develops a framework for planning cities in India that considers these culture-specific user aspects in order to reduce conflicts between planning principles and local urbanism traditions, and to create more congenial social environments.
Humane Approach to Urban Planning Final
- 1. Humane Approach to Urban Planning Dr Priya Choudhary Professor Smt. Manoramabai Mundle College of Architecture, Nagpur The book is an effort to evolve and present a humane approach for planning practices in India. The planning approach, followed in India, mostly ignores the cultural peculiarities, habits, preferences of Indian users. This is mainly because, all the city planning¡ preparation of development plans is based on the planning norms formulated in Europe or North America. Due to socioeconomic, demographic and cultural differences in Indian context, the Indian users and their preferences are very much different. It may be useful to incorporate culture-specific user aspects and evolve a humane approach to city planning in India. The consideration of user preferences will not only reduce conflicting situations in urban areas due to non-congruence between planning principles adopted and principles of urbanism rooted in the place, but will also be congenial to developing appropriate social environments. The book presents a study about Indian built environments and its users. It brings out the peculiarities of Indian users, their preferences and Indian principles of urbanism. The book establishes the fact that there are culture- specific user preferences in Indian context and further evolves a framework for humane approach to deal continuously evolving built environments in urban India. Dr Priya Choudhary is the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship in 2011 and MASA Best TeacherAward in 2012. recipient of June 2015 HB | 202pp 978-93-83419-21-0 INR 2495.00 Also available at Amazon India NEW TITLE To order, mail at sales@copalpublishing.com Call at +919811538614