TOWN PLANNING

ART-384
ASSIGNMENT 1

SUBMITTED BY:
JAYESH LUNAWAT
UID: 18BAR1108
SEMESTER 6th
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Q1. DEFINE THE TERM ‘TOWN PLANNING’. LIST DOWN THREE PERTINENT
ISSUES / CHALLENGES OUR CITIES FACE?

It includes the control of existing and new turns of events, just as methodology
readiness to guarantee oversee future prerequisites. It is a powerful cycle that
adjustments in light of strategy, improvement proposition and nearby requirements.

A portion of the serious issues of urbanization in India are

1. Urban Sprawl
2. Overcrowding
3. Housing
4. Unemployment
5. Slums and Squatter Settlements
6. Transport
7. Water
8. Sewerage Problems
9. Trash Disposal
10. Urban Crimes
11. Problem of Urban Pollution!

Despite the fact that India is one of the less urbanized nations of the world with just
27.78 percent of her populace living in metropolitan agglomerations/towns, this
nation is confronting a genuine emergency of metropolitan development right now.
Though urbanization has been an instrument of monetary, social and political
advancement, it has prompted genuine financial issues.
Q2. WRITE BRIEFLY ABOUT THE TREND OF URBANIZATION IN INDIAN CITIES.
WHAT ARE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF URBANIZATION?

Urbanization in India started to speed up after autonomy, because of the country's

selection of a blended economy, which led to the advancement of the private area.
The populace living in metropolitan regions in India, as per the 1901 evaluation, was
11.4%, expanding to 28.53% by the 2001 statistics, and is presently right now 34%
in 2017 as per The World Bank. As per a study by UN, in 2030 40.76% of country's
populace is required to live in metropolitan zones. According to World Bank, India,
alongside China, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the United States, will lead the world's
metropolitan populace flood by 2050.

Mumbai saw enormous scope rustic metropolitan movement in the twentieth

century. Mumbai, in 2018, obliges 22.1 million individuals, and is the biggest city by
populace in India, trailed by Delhi with 28 million occupants. Delhi saw the quickest
pace of urbanization on the planet, with a 4.1% ascent in populace according to the
2011 statistics.
Advantages of urbanization:

• The problem of unemployment will be solved

• High transportation facilities
• More education opportunities
• Recycling process
• Internet connections will be available
• More modernized equipments
• Higher wages in cities on average

Disadvantages of Urbanization:

• Chances of high level of pollution like air, noise etc.

• Higher level of stress
• Lack of natural spaces
• There will be chances of spreading diseases.
• Traffic issue will be more.
Q.3 LIST DOWN MERITS AND DEMERITS (5 EACH) OF THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION.
The Industrial Revolution, the time frame in which agrarian and workmanship
economies moved quickly to modern and machine-fabricating overwhelmed ones,
started in the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century and later spread all
through no. of different places of the world. This financial change changed not just
how work was done and merchandise were created, yet it likewise adjusted how
individuals related both to each other and to the planet on the loose. This discount
change in cultural association proceeds with today, and it has created a few
impacts that have undulated all through Earth's political, environmental, and social
circles. The accompanying rundown depicts a portion of the incredible advantages
just as a portion of the critical deficiencies related with the Industrial Revolution.
MERITS
• Goods Became More Affordable and More Accessible
• The Rapid Evolution of Labour-Saving Inventions
• The Rapid Evolution of Medicine.
• Enhanced Wealth and Quality of Life of the an Average Person
• The Rise of Specialist Professions
DEMERITS
• Overcrowding of Cities and Industrial Towns
• Pollution and Other Environmental Ills
• Poor Working Conditions
• The Rise in Unhealthy Habits
WRITE SHORT NOTES ON ANY TWO OF THE FOLLOWING:
a) PONDICHERY

In the first place, with the understanding of Raja Ram, the leader of Senji,
they amplified the domain under their influence. At that point, they arranged
another town, in view of the network design.

Five general stores were set up along the south Indian coast somewhere in the
range of 1668 and 1674. The city was isolated by a waterway into the French
Quarter and the Indian Quarter.

On 18 March 1954, various goals were passed by the districts in Pondicherry

requesting prompt consolidation with India.

Pondicherry is an interesting little town on the Coromandel shore of Bay of

Bengal. Pondicherry or Puducherry was the last French province in India. It
turned into a piece of India in 1954 as an association domain. At the hour of
move to India, the residents of Indian and French root in Pondicherry were
given the decision to take Indian or French citizenship.
b) AUROVILLE

Through its Master Plan, Auroville needs to kick off something new in settlement-
arranging so as to help different urban areas, both in India and abroad, which are
encountering high urbanization patterns. Auroville additionally desires to show how
'metropolitan' and 'provincial' territories can correlatively create in a fundamental
and all encompassing manner for their shared advantage and prosperity. We talk
about an 'coordinated' masterplan, suggesting here that both city and climate are
necessarily gotten ready for, since Auroville has come to really focus on its
'hinterland'.

AUROVILLE'S METHODOLOGY

Auroville's methodology tries to go a lot further. The methodology of its Master Plan
is to set up that the financial and human scholarly assets, which typically incline
toward metropolitan zones, can be adequately used to spread advancement all the
more equally, and to make a fair and monetarily stable society. This is, usually, as
of now not the situation with respect to the manner in which urban areas are
arranged, created and are working.
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