Housing Policy & Planning

Lecture 24: Housing Strategy for City-3

Dealing with New Housing Areas
Dr. Uttam K. Roy
Department of Architecture and Planning

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Recap

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Core City housing Strategy

1. Understanding core city importance

2. Understanding issues
3. Assessment of Infrastructure stress and holding capacity
4. Using concept of re-densification and de-densification
5. Prescribing appropriate development controls
6. Incentivize and enforce

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Housing for New Areas

1. Land Assembly
2. Land subdivision (Plotted or Group Housing?)
3. Applying Contemporary concepts (TOD, Compact City, Smart
City, NMT etc)
4. Investment and Development strategy
5. Land disposal mechanism
6. Check and balance

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Principles of Land Subdivisions
1. Levels of planning
2. Access Roads
3. Intended development
4. Size and shape of plots
5. Built form and urban design
6. Distribution of facilities

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Examples
 RESIDENTIAL AREAS
Residential areas are physically planned as different blocks/sectors of population 25,000
Each block consists four neighborhood each having population about 6,250
Each neighborhood consists four clusters each having population about 1600

TYPICAL LAYOUT OF A BLOCK/sector

LAYOUT OF NEIGHBORHOOD
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Lecture 25: Housing Strategy for City-4

Dr. Uttam K. Roy

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

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Thank you

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