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One Idea, Many Plans
An American City Design Concept in Independent India
Author: Vidyarthi Sanjeev
Language: EnglishSubjects for One Idea, Many Plans:
Keywords
Southeast Asia; development planning; discursive plans; parameter plans; formal plans; user's plans; populist plans; ITPI; Bombay suburbs; urban India; international planning; Single Family Residential Land; DMP; Neighborhood Unit Concept; Krishna Nagar; Malviya Nagar; Neighborhood Unit; Good Life; Formal Urban Plans; Violate; Private Subdivisions; Informal Settlements; City’s Historical Quarters; Unauthorized Subdivisions; Perry’s Conception; Subdivision Rules; Civil Lines; Gandhi Nagar; Tamil Nadu; Popular Plans; Delhi Master Plan; Indian Planners; Vastu Vidya; Comprehensive Planning Model; Casteless Society; Moral Ethical Framework
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Add to cart the book of Vidyarthi SanjeevPublication date: 02-2015
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Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India?s planning practice and literature?from the national level policies to on-the-ground applications in the city of Jaipur?Vidyarthi explains how a host of actors including neighborhood residents, squatters, politicians and developers made different kinds of plans that assimilated the design concept in line with their practical concerns and cultural preferences creating unique variants of neighborhood urbanism over time. One Idea, Many Plans counters misguided characterization of these unforeseen efforts as ?unauthorized? by state authorities. It shows how the frequently informal and tacit plans were neither arbitrary actions nor aimless subversions but purposeful future-oriented efforts that shaped the envisaged sociality and spatiality of Indian cities in more meaningful ways than the official master plans promoting planned neighborhoods.
Carefully illustrating the different kinds of plans local actors use to guide incremental adaptation, improvement and investment, Vidyarthi offers insights about how we might improve formal plan making. Scholars, students and professional practitioners interested in different regions of the global south would find these lessons useful as a new generation of city design ideas like sustainability and new urbanism gain traction in an increasingly globalized World.
Part 1 1. Discursive Plans—Conceiving Planning Ideas 2. Parameter Plans—Operationalizing Concepts Part 2 3. Formal Plans—Making Official Attempts 4. User Plans—Leveraging Unforeseen Opportunities Part 3 5. Developer Plans—Building Subdivisions on the Urban Edge 6. Popular Plans—Reconciling Diverse Efforts
Sanjeev Vidyarthi is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Trained as an architect, urban designer and spatial planner, Sanjeev studies how to make better plans for places. His research interests include ideas and actions in the fields of planning theory and history and globalization and development studies.
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