What will you learn?
- Understanding the scope of Urban Planning as a subject
- How to curate your aptitude to take up the field?
- Differences between Urban Design and Urban Planning
- Where the field is dwelling into today in India and abroad?
- Future prospects/ opportunities after a PG degree in Urban Planning
- How to go about making a bright career in the field starting from scratch?
What Is Urban Planning?
Urban planning is the art and science of designing cities and urban environments. In order to design a city, planners need to understand how people live and work in their environment. Cities have evolved over time, and many of them were designed using principles of urban planning.
Why Urban Planning?
If you have the slightest of interest in cities and what makes them look the way they look, the way they function, then this is the place for you to be. Are you interested to dwell into the hidden ways in which our cities work, but dont know how? Would you like to know how design, philosophy, theories, technological advancements, politics, socio-cultural aspects orchestrate together to result into what we call as a ‘City’? Then this lecture is what will clear the fog over this much talked about topic of ‘Cities’.
