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Regional Planning

The course on Regional Planning covers the evolution, need, and types of regional planning, focusing on characteristics, delineation, and strategic models relevant to India and less developed countries. It addresses regional imbalances and includes topics such as the Growth Pole Model and special area development plans. Students will engage with various readings to enhance their understanding of regional problems and planning strategies.

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Regional Planning

The course on Regional Planning covers the evolution, need, and types of regional planning, focusing on characteristics, delineation, and strategic models relevant to India and less developed countries. It addresses regional imbalances and includes topics such as the Growth Pole Model and special area development plans. Students will engage with various readings to enhance their understanding of regional problems and planning strategies.

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Semester IV

PAPER NO- 10: REGIONAL PLANNING


Course Objectives
The course covers evolution, need and types of regional planning. Students learn about
characteristics and delineation of planning regions, strategic models of regional planning,
problems of regions and regional plans in India and less developed countries. This will enhance
the understanding of different regional problems and minimizing the uneven development that
to reduce regional imbalances.

1. Definition of Region, Evolution and Types of Regional planning


1.1 Definition of Region (Formal, Functional, and Planning Regions) and Regional
Planning
1.2 Need for Regional Planning- Regional Imbalances and Problems of City Regions
1.3 Types of regional Planning – Based on Level of Planning (Centralized, Multilevel and
Micro- Level Planning), Based on Objective of Planning (Physical and Economic)
 Glasson, J. (1978) An Introduction to Regional Planning: Concepts, Theory And
Practice. University of Michigan, Hutchinson. Chapter 1 and 2
 Misra, R. P. (ed) (1980) Regional Planning Concepts, Techniques, Policies and Case
Studies, Vikas Publishing, Delhi. Chapter 1, 2 and 4
 Hall, P. (1992) Urban and Regional Planning, Routledge, London. Chapter 6

2. Choice of a Region for Planning


2.1 Characteristics of an Ideal Planning Region
2.2 Delineation of Planning Region
2.3 Regionalization of India for Planning (Agro Ecological Zones)
 Chand, M. and Puri, V.K. (2010) Regional Planning in India, Allied Publishers, New
Delhi. Chapter 1
 Glasson, John (1978) An Introduction to Regional Planning: Concepts, Theory And
Practice. University of Michigan, Hutchinson. Chapter 2
 Gajbhiye,K.S., and Mandal. C, Agro-Ecological Zones, their Soil Resource and
Cropping Systems, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur at
http://agricoop.nic.in/farm%20mech.%20pdf/05024-01.pdf

3. Strategies/Models for Regional Planning


3.1 Growth Pole Model of Perroux
3.2 Growth Centre Model in Indian Context
3.3 Village Cluster
 Glasson, John (1978) An Introduction to Regional Planning: Concepts, Theory And
Practice. University of Michigan, Hutchinson. Chapter 8
 Sundaram K.V. (2012) Development Planning at the Grassroots, Concept Publishing
Company, New Delhi. Chapter 5

4. Problem Regions and Regional Planning


4.1 Backward Regions and Regional Plans- Special Area Development Plans in India
4.2 DVC-The Success Story and the Failures
4.3 Regional Plans for LDCs under UNCTAD

1
 Report of the Technical Committee on DPAP and DDP (Hanumantha Rao Committee
Report), Planning Commission, New Delhi, available at
http://jharkhandrdd.nic.in/HanumantRaoCommittee.pdf (last accessed 1 April 2013)
 Chand, M. and Puri, V.K. (2010) Regional Planning in India, Allied Publishers, New
Delhi. Chapter 10
 Definition of and criteria for LDCs -
http://unctad.org/en/Pages/ALDC/Least%20Developed%20Countries/Research-and-
Policy-Analysis-on-LDCs.aspx (Last accessed on 2 April 2013)
 UNCTAD, Least Developed Countries Report 2012,
http://unctad.org/en/docs//aconf191d11.en.pdf (Last accessed on 2 April 2013)

Further Readings
 Adell, Germán (1999) Literature Review: Theories and Models Of The Peri-Urban Interface: A
Changing Conceptual Landscape, Peri-urban Research Project Team, Development Planning Unit,
University College London at
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/43/1/DPU_PUI_Adell_THEORIES_MODELS.pdf (last accessed on 2
April 2013)
 Dreze J. and A. Sen, Indian Development: Select Regional Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996).
 Raza, M., Ed. (1988). Regional Development. Contributions to Indian Geography. New Delhi,
Heritage Publishers.
 Schmidt-Kallert, Einhard (2005) A Short Introduction to Micro-Regional Planning, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Europe/documents/Publications/Mrp_en.pdf (last
accessed on 2 April 2013)

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