URBAN CONSERVATION

TITLE SYLLABUS
UNDERSTANDING HERITAGE
TYPES OF HERITAGE
HERITAGE CONSERVATION
ITS NEED, DEBATE AND PURPOSE

CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION
AND ADAPTIVE REUSE
UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO CONSERVATION

DISTINCTION BETWEEN
ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION
AND URBAN CONSERVATION
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES ROLE IN
CONSERVATION
ICCROM
UNESCO

MUSEUM CONSERVATION
MONUMENT CONSERVATION
ROLE OF ASI
ROLE OF INTACH
CENTRAL AND STATE GOVT POLICIES
AND LEGISLATIONS
UNIT 2 CONSERVATION IN INDIA
INVENTORIES AND PROJECTS- CASE
STUDIES

CRAFT ISSUES OF CONSERVATION

CONSERVATION PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
CASE STUDY OF KEEZHADI

LISTING OF MONUMENTS
DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORIC
STRUCTURES

ASSESSING ARCHITECTURAL
CHARACTER
HISTORIC REPORT

UNIT 3 CONSERVATION STRATEGIES

UNIT 3 CONSERVATION STRATEGIES
GUIDELINES FOR PRESERVATION,
REHABILITATION, ADAPTIVE REUSE
SEISMIC RETROFIT OF HISTORIC
BUILDINGS

DISABLED ACCESS/ SERVICES

ADDITIONS TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS
HERITAGE/ HISTORIC SITE
MANAGEMENT

URBAN HISTORY OF INDIA

URBAN HISTORY OF TAMILNADU
CHARACTER AND ISSUES OF
HISTORIC CITIES
THANJAVUR
UNIT 4 URBAN CONSERVATION
KUMBAKONAM
KANCHIPURAM
CHETTINAD
HISTORIC DISTRICT
HISTORIC PRECINCT

NORMS FOR CONSERVATION OF

HERITAGE BUILDINGS AND SITES AS
PART OF DEVELOPMENT
REGULATIONS
HERITAGE DISTRICTS

CONSERVATION AS PLANNING TOOL

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
PLANNING TOOLS LIKE TDR
UNIT 5 CONSERVATION AND URBAN PLANNING

URBAN CONSERVATION AND

HERITAGE TOURISM
AN CONSERVATION

2 MARKS 13 MARKS 15 MARKS

LEGISLATION

HOW TO RECORD INVENTORIES

CRAFT CONSERVATION

PARAMETERS FOR
HISTORIC TOWN IN
INDIAN CONTEXT
GUIDELINES AND VALUES
FOR PRESERVATION *
BUILDING REHABILITATION ADAPTIVE REUSE

METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

CHARACTERISTICS PAST AND PRESENT

STEPS TO CONSERVE

* URBAN CONSERVATION ; ECONOMY THROUGH

NEED BENEFITS * CONSERVATION *
OBJECTIVES OF HERITAGE WESTERN CASE
TOURISM STUDY

PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION IN
POTENTIAL MARKET FOR URBAN
HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT CONSERVATION
IN TAMILNADU PROJECTS
 URBAN

TITLE

UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION

UNIT 2 READING THE URBAN FABRIC

UNIT 3 ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN FORM

UNIT 4 URBAN INTERVENTIONS- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

UNIT 5 URBAN INTERVENTIONS - RESTRUCTURING THE CITY

2 MARKS
 URBANISM

COARSE GRAIN AND FINE GRAIN

URBAN FABRIC

FIGURE GROUND DIAGRAM

 SPLINTERING URBANISM

INCLUSIVE URBANISM
PLACEMAKING
EFFECTS OF URBANISATION IN CONTEXT OF CHENNAI
URBAN INTERVENTION METHODS IN RESTRUCTURING THE
CITY
SIGNIFICANCE OF DIAGRAMMING MAPPING IN
INTERPRETING THE URBAN FABRIC
URBANISM
BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES
DIAGRAMMING MAPPING
 PHENOMENOLOGY

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE CITIES PROGRAM

IMAGEABILITY

TRANSIT METROPOLIS
URBAN INTERVENTIONS
SPLINTERING URBANISM
URBAN AREA
FOUR DESIGNED ANCIENT CITIES
VARIOUS LAYERS OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIAGRAM AND ART
TOD
URBAN SPRAWL
TWO FACTORS FOR A CITY TO BECOME METROPOLIS
BROWNFIELD LAND
PLACEMAKING
DYNAMIC FAÇADE. GIVE EXAMPLE
 URBAN DESIGN - THEORY AND PRACTICE

SYLLABUS
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CITIES AND URBANISM

HISTORIC REVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN DESIGN DISCIPLINE

AND PRINCIPLES

DIFFERENT WAYS OF READING AND INTERPRETING THE URBAN FABRIC/ CITY

IMAGEABILITY

TYPOLOGY
PHENOMENOLOGY

BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES

DIAGRAMMING - MAPPING

VARIOUS ISSUES AND ASPECTS THAT IMPINGE ON THE URBAN CONDITION

TODAY

GLOBALISATION

DIGITAL REVOLUTION

CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES

SUSTAINABILITY
SPLINTERING URBANISM (THROUGH CHANGES IN INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND TRANSPORTATION)

ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYTICS IN INCLUSIVE URBANISM

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE CITIES PROGRAM

REVITALISATION OF BROWNNFIELD SITES

TRANSIT METROPOLIS

CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES IN URBAN DESIGN

PLACEMAKING IN THE DIGITAL AGE

RECONFIGURING THE PUBLIC REALM

URBANISATION AND EXCURSIONS ON DENSITY

2 MARKS
 Following Louis Wirth, Urbanism is a way of life, is characterised by extensive
conflicts of norms and values, by rapid social change, by increased social
differentiation, greater social mobility, by higher levels of education and
income, by emphasis on material possessions and individualism, by
impersonality of relationships and decline in Intimate communication and by
increase in formal social controls. Prof. Ram Ahuja says that urbanism Is a way
of life which is characterised by certain elements such as transiency (short-
term relations), superficiality, (impersonal and formal relations with limited
number of people,) anonymity (not knowing names and lacking Intimacy) and
individualism (people giving more importance to one’s vested interests).

Urban grain is essentially a description of the pattern of plots in an urban block

and when this pattern is dominated by small plots it is described as fine urban
grain. Domination by large plots is described as coarse grain.

Urban fabric refers to the physical urban environment (elements, materials,

form, scales, density and networks), and to its psychological, socio-cultural,
ecological, managerial and economic structures.

A figure-ground diagram is a mapping technique used to illustrate the

relationship between built and unbuilt space in cities. Land coverage of
buildings is visualized as solid mass (figure), while public spaces
formed by streets, parks and plazas are represented as
voids (ground). In urban planning, this simple yet
powerful graphic tool is used to explore built form
patterns and the continuity of open space.
 A term coined by geographers Steven Graham and Simon Marvin to refer to
the ways in which infrastructures, including information and communication
technologies, can fragment the experience of the city. Splintering Urbanism
makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a
new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing
together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and
society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the built
environment *developed, developing and post-communist worlds. Splintering
Urbanism examines the role of urban infrastructure in fostering social and
spatial inequality and identifies a new planning logic favouring the differential
development of city spaces.Splintering Urbanism documents the decline of
this standardized integrated ideal and the rise of a new planning logic
characterized by the differential development of urban and regional spaces.
Splintering Urbanism traces the emergence of such ‘premium network spaces’
in myriad cities across the world and highlights the need to understand this
reconfiguration of infrastructural networks within wider processes of urban
change and restructuring. Splintering Urbanism conceives of cities as sets of
super-imposed and co-evolving infrastructural ‘landscapes’ playing a
significant role in structuring experiences of urban culture and articulating in
complex, dynamic and uneven ways different places, people and buildings
across different geographies within and between cities.
 David Seamon- I therefore define phenomenology as the exploration and
description of phenomena, where phenomena refer to things or experiences
as human beings experience them. Any object, event, situation or experience
that a person can see, hear, touch, smell, taste, feel, intuit, know, understand,
or live through is a legitimate topic for phenomenological investigation. There
can be a phenomenology of light, of color, of architecture, of landscape, of
place, of home, of travel, of seeing, of learning, of blindness, of jealousy, of
change, of relationship, of friendship, of power, of economy, of sociability, and
so forth. All of these things are phenomena because human beings can
experience, encounter, or live through them in some way.

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present

without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs."

A sustainable city is marked by a green economy, a healthy and happy

community, smart infrastructure and they are bio diverse, low-carbon, resilient
and resource-efficient. The Sustainable Cities Programme (SCP) is a joint UN-
HABITAT/UNEP facility established in the early 1990s to build capacities in
urban environmental planning and management. The programme targets
urban local authorities and their partners. It is founded on broad-based
stakeholder participatory approaches.

that quality in a physical object which gives it a high probability of evoking a

strong image in any given observer. It is that shape, color, or arrangement
which facilitates the making of vividly identified, powerfully structured, highly
useful mental images of the environment.
ORY AND PRACTICE

EXAMPLES 2 MARKS 13 MARKS

* SAME AS SYLLABUS

* MUMFORD'S CONCEPT OF
PLANNED COMMUNITIES AND NEW
TOWNS * SAME AS SYLLABUS *
WHAT IS URBAN MORPHOLOGY,
EXPLAIN ITS DIMENSIONS WITH
SKETCHES

* ANY FOUR METHODS WITH

THEORIES AND SKETCHES * SAME
AS SYLLABUS

KEVIN LYNCH - BOSTON WITH CASE STUDY

ALDO ROSSI
GENIUS LOCI - SCHULTZ
*HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IMPACT
WILLIAM WHYTE CITY'S PHYSICAL FORM

* DIAGAMATIC DESIGN
METHODOLOGY OF ANY 1 FIRM
WITH EXAMPLE OF THEIR KEY
PROJECT * DIAGRAMMING AND
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER MAPPING USED AS MEANS OF
SIMPLIFYING THE COMPLEXITIES OF
URBAN FLUX IN ESSENCE TO
REVIEW THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE
CITY

* SAME AS SYLLABUS

ISSUE OF GLOBALISATION IN TERMS

LIST OF ISSUES OF CULTURE AND URBAN FORM

* IN UNIT 5 - ROLE OF DIGITAL

INTELLIGENT CITY - PUTRAJAYA REVOLUTION IN DESIGN OF SMART
URBAN CITIES
DIGITAL CITY, SIM CITY GAMING, URBAN
FOOTPRINT
MASDAR CITY
 SPLINTERING URBANISM - BY STEPHEN
GRAHAM AND SIMON MARVIN Networked * IDEAS AND CONCEPTS
Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and
the Urban Condition. Routledge, 2001,

FEATURES, APPLICATION TO URBANISM, * SAME AS SYLABUS

CITY DASHBOARDS

* URBAN INTERVENTIONS FOR

CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS AND
MASDAR CITY KEY TO SOCIALLY ECONOMICALLY
AND ENVIRONMENTALLY
SUSTAINABLE CITIES

MASDAR CITY, CURITIBA, BRAZIL, PUTRAJAYA * SAME AS SYLLABUS

* MENTION ADVANTAGES
CANARY WHARF, BATTERY PARK, BHENDI SKETCHES CASE STUDY * SAME AS
BAZAAR, DHARAVI PROPOSAL SYLLABUS
CURITIBA, STOCKHOLM * CITY REDESIGN BASED ON TOD

DIGITAL CITY, SIM CITY GAMING, URBAN * SAME AS SYLLABUS

FOOTPRINT

DIGITAL PLACES: BUILDING OUR CITY OF

BITS, AUTHOR THOMAS A. HORAN ; * SAME AS SYLLABUS
B.WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, CITY OF BITS:
SPACE, PLACE AND THE INFOBAHN

* VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF
PUBLIC REALM, DESIGN
CONSIDERATIONS OF SAME TO
CREATE SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC PLACE

* EMERGING CHALLENGES OF
URBAN PLANNING IN INDIA.
SOLUTION EXAMPLES
 15 MARKS

PATH AND EDGE IN CONTEXT OF

CHENNAI IMAGE IMPROVEMENT.
ILLUSTRATE
 * URBAN INTERVENTIONS FOR
RESTRUCTURING THE CITY

* ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA ON

URBAN SPACES

* VARIOUS FACTORS LEADING TO

URABNISATION WITH
ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES * SAME AS
SYLLABUS
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UNIT 1

UNIT 2

UNIT 3
UNIT 3

UNIT 4

UNIT 5
 ANTHROPOLOG

TITLE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, SOCIETY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE

ANTHROPOLOGY OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PLACEMAKING

 ANTHROPOLOGY AND PLACEMAKING

OVERVIEW OF URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY

SEMINAR
ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE

SYLLABUS 2 MARKS
CONCEPT OF CULTURE
CONCEPT OF SOCIETY

CONCEPT OF POLITICS

CONCEPT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

RELATION BETWEEN SOCIETY AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY VIEW OF

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE AS A PROCESS
KINSHIP AND HOUSE SOCIETIES

PERCEPTIONS OF BUILT FORM

CONCEPTIONS OF SPACE
SYMBOLISM AND TECHNOLOGY
CASE STUDY TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA
CASE STUDY TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN ASIA
CASE STUDY TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN AFRICA

CONDITIONS OF MODERNITY
FRAGMENTATION OF SOCIETY
HEIDEGGER AND NOTIONS OF DWELLING
NOEBERG SHULTZ NOTIONS OF GENIUS LOCI
RAPOPORT MEANING OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT
JOSEPH RYKWERT IDEA OF HOUSE
BOLLNOW IDEA OF SPACE
JAN PIEPER NOTIONS OF SACRED SPACE

MEANING OF URBAN STUDIES

URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
ROLE OF CITIES
URBAN ETHNOGRAAPHY
PRIMARY UNITS
MAJOR COMPONENTS
UNITS OF INTEGRATION

ANTHROPOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY URBAN ISSUES

RELEVANCE AND IMPACT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ON

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN - CASE STUDIES
 13 MARKS 15 MARKS

POLITICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY

FIELD. CLASSIFICATIONS AND

ASSOCIATION WITH
ARCHITECTURE

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE AD
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

MEANING OF BUILT FORM AND

HOW CULTURE IS EXPRESSED
INDIA TWO EXAMPLES

ORIGIN OF HOUSE FORMS

IMPACT OF URBANISATION
(SOCIAL PHYSICAL ECONOMIC
ISSUES)