Urban Planning - Alternate Paradigms

1. URBAN PLANNING
ALTERNATE PARADIGMS

2. Why Urban Planning
• Set (good governance) rules to provide a level
playing field
• Protect individuals from arbitrary actions of
Governments
• Protect Society from greedy actions of
individuals
• An essential basis for Urban Management

3. Dominant Paradigm
– Designed By Outsiders
– Focus on New/Extensions
– Top down (Nesting)
Structure Plan
Master Plan
District Plan
Neighbourhood Plan
– Compliance by Enforcement

4. Alternate Paradigm
– Participatory: Designed By Citizens
– Focus on Existing Areas
– Centered on their own living place
Neighbourhood Plan
Structure Plan
District
PlanMaster Plan
– Compliance through Appreciation

5. Communities Build Cities
Based on:
– Subsidiarity: Devolution of Power
– Involvement and Engagement
– Occupy to Build Not Build to Occupy
Learning
By
Doing
By
Learning
– Inform and Transform Not Confirm and Conform

6. Community By Community
Process:
– Set up Community framework - Identify Pilot Communities
– Set up local decision-making and management and implementation
structure
– Set up open-access interactive information systems

7. Mohalla Bazee
– Set up Community framework - Identify Pilot Communities
– Set up local decision-making and management and implementation
structure
– Set up open-access interactive information systems

8. Mohalla Bazee
– Subdivide Mohallas into “Kucha”
– Organise inclusive, participatory kucha-based in-situ
planning to identify aspirations, problems, resources

9. Mohalla Bazee
ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVES
1 Access Identify existing and potential pedestrian routes
2 Access Identify Streets and Roads; traffic bottlenecks; parking nuisance
3 Encroachments Identify locations, owners
4 Environment Identify areas, extent and frequency of flooding
5 Environment Identify poor drainage flows
6 Environment Identify areas for landscaping, protection
7 Environment Identify hazards; ownership; causes
8 Environment Identify fragile environments
9 Housing Match housing availability/affordability to population needs, abilities
10 Income Identify space, services, access needs for income-generating activities
11 Income Match opportunities to population
12 Open Space Formal, Informal, Social space needs: Youth, Children, Women, Elderly
13 Conservation Identify protection and preservation needs
14 Residents Identify aspirations, expectations, resources, concerns
15 Residents Quantify, qualify into demand groups for socio-economic facilties
16 Schools Match existing provision to future populations
17 Spatial Identify areas/needs of potential/excessive development
18 Spatial Map, ownership, use, availability of spaces

10. Mohalla Bazee
• In-situ planning to identify/locate areas of concern
• Set Now-Soon-Later Priorities for intervention
• Qualify interventions by Can-Could-Might-Can’t
• Develop Action Plans

11. Mohalla Bazee
ESSENTIAL STRATEGIES
1 Access Provide footpaths; eliminate nooks and cul-de-sacs; street-lighting
2 Access One-Way streets; car-parking (reduce need to travel for work)
3 Encroachments Relocate off public areas; more effective/instant monitoring
4 Environment Build channels; create catchment areas in parks
5 Environment Unblock drains; add more drains
6 Environment Encourage urban agriculture
7 Environment Isolate areas; educate people
8 Environment Educate; protect
9 Housing Create more plots by changing size, density; Slow-rise development
10 Income Modify planning regulations; encourage micro-finance
11 Income Encourage more local-local trade, manufacturing, enterprise
12 Open Space Involve groups in planning and managing spaces; give ownership
13 Conservation Identify, protect and preservation
14 Residents Engage in planning and implementation; engage in conversations
15 Residents Support provision of services; facilities
16 Schools Facilitate establishment of community-based schools
17 Spatial Identify areas of potential/excessive development
18 Spatial Use land-swapping; market-based strategies to free up land