3.00 Credits. 5 Hrs/Wk

Growth of human settlements and urban centres, generative and parasitic nature of urban growth, factors influencing growth. Definition, scope and relationship with architecture and planning. Dominant trends in Urban Design; Utopian, Monumentalist, Environmentalist, Modernist, Perceptionist, etc. Normative and Organic theories of urban form and design. Steps of Urban Design processes, approaches toward the problems and levels of analysis. Analysis of urban physical pattern. Physical and non-physical functioning of areas, community action and conflict management.

3.00 Credits. 5 Hrs/Wk

Analysis and understanding of the city as a social system with reference to ethnicity and religion; distribution of income and occupation, class structure, culture and life styles, their effects on communities and neighbourhoods. Analysis of the activity systems and the resultant built form as a product of economic, political and physical forces. Development of business, commerce and industry and their effects on urban pattern. Inter- relationship of urban planning and design and the political setup, urban planning and design institutions and coordintion of their activities, project programming, implementation, management etc. Urban locational decisions and transportation; understanding of infrastructure system and sub-systems. Principles and practices of urban controls, proscriptive and prescriptive modes, land value and urban form, land use guidance tools and techniques.

3.00 Credits. 3 Hrs/Wk

Urban Morphology History; Spatial analysis of Urban Form; Theory of Space Syntex for configurational analysis of urban form. The Spatial Nature of Societies; Theory of space in the structuring of society; Philosophical clebate about space; Social logic of the spatial morphology of urban form. Form of cities and how they function; Configuration of Urban Grid and Urban Core; Theory of movement economy; Problems in urban structure- Part and whole, Disurbanism; order and structure in urban desing. Spatial Morphology of cities-Medieval, Islamic, Colonial; Geometry in Organic and Planned cities; Morphology of cities of Organic cities. Tranformation of Urban Form with particular reference to change in activity pattern and sustainable urban form; Modernizing Medieval cities, Urban transformation and the morphological characteristics of Dhaka.

3.00 Credits. 3 Hrs/Wk

Context & Theoretical underpinning of Urban Design, analytical debate, urban form debate and procedural debate; Postmodernism and Design Theory; Reading the context, Environment Behaviour Studies; The Social Logic, The Social Production of space - Theory and Practice; The Social Production of Architecture, Ideology and Urban Design. The Technology of Form - An analytical Overview; The question of Aesthetics, Aesthetics, Ideology & Urban Form; Structure and
Analogy - Study of different Models; Global Urban Crisis. Comparative Study on various societies; The Properties of Space; Concepts of Adaptability; Typological and Morphological elements of the Concepts of Urban Space; Meaning, Form, Space, Symbols and Territory; Spatial Manifestation of Societal Norms / values in various societies. Design Dilemma, Ideology and Power, Lieu, Endroit, Milieu, and Locale; Urban Form and Space; The Conservation of Ideology and Society; Prospects and constraints of information age and its impact on form and morphology of settlements; Morphological Evolution of Urban Settlements; Case studies to
understand the generic pattern.