Urban and Regional Planning Education

Ashok Kumar has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate planning students at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi since the last 23 years after finishing his doctorate from the University of Liverpool, U.K. Widely known for his expertise in spatial justice, capabilities and planning, and collaborative planning theory, Prof. Kumar has published nearly 100 papers in national and international journals, authored, edited, and co-edited 10 books, and contributed over 20 book chapters. Currently he is Editor of the ITPI Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India. Previously he has been Editor of SPACE: The SPA Journal of Planning and Architecture published by SPA New Delhi. Formerly Chief Planner, Town and Country Planning Organization, New Delhi for more than 12 years, Dr. D.S. Meshram has greatly influenced the planning profession in India since the last four decades. Currently Dr. Meshram is the President of the Institute of Town Planners, India. Prior to this Dr. Meshram has held the position of Chairman of the All India Board of Town and Country Planning Education of AICTE for nine years when he got prepared the model curricula both for undergraduate and postgraduate planning education. For more than two years Dr. Meshram was appointed Advisor (Urban Development) to Government of Uttarakhand. Krishne Gowda is the Director at the University School of Design, University of Mysore, Karnataka since December 2014. Before this Prof. Gowda held the position of Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore for nearly six years. He has been working as a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University for over 12 years. So far he has supervised 16 doctoral students. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers in journals, and also authored and co-authored 8 book chapters. He is a great organizer of academic events. 

Chapter 1: Introduction  Ashok Kumar.- PART I: EMERGENCE OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING EDUCATION IN INDIA Chapter 2. Planning Education in India: A Historical Perspective  D.S. Meshram and Swati Meshram.- Chapter 3. Modern History of Urban and Regional Planning Education in India  Ashok Kumar.- Chapter 4. Planning Education for a Smart Urban India  Rolee Aranya and Chetan Vaidya.- Chapter 5. Dynamics of Land Use Planning: A Planning Education Perspective  Krishne Gowda, Mamatha P. Raj, and Sridhara, M.V.- Chapter 6: Scarcity of Planning Professionals and Need of Change in Planning Education and Practice  Milind B. Patil.- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING EDUCATION Chapter 7: An Exploration into the Multiplicity of Planning Knowledges  Ashok Kumar.- Chapter 8: Teaching-Learning for Planning withEcologies  Shishir R. Raval.- Chapter 9: Positioning Urban Governance in Planning Pedagogy  Tathagata Chatterji and Aparna Soni.- Chapter 10: Need for Paradigm Shift in Pedagogy for Teaching the Fundamentals of Planning Education  Natraj Kranthi and Valliappan A.L.- Chapter 11: Integrating Planning Knowledges in Education to Improve Development of Indian Cities  Champa, H.S. and Gayathri Viswanathan.- Chapter 12: Integrating Planning Knowledges: A case of HUDCO and a Way ahead for Better Planning  Girish Karnad TG.- Chapter 13: Stakeholders’ Perspective of a Small River in Gujarat, India: What students can learn from Field Experiences of an Interdisciplinary Research Bhawana Vasudeva.- Chapter 14: Towards Making Town Planning Education as an Effective Tool of Change in Urban India Najammuddin and Ashutosh Joshi.- PART III: ETHICS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING EDUCATION Chapter 15: Ethics in Planning Education in India   Poonam Prakash.- Chapter 16: Ethics in Town and Country Planning Education in India – Trends and Future Prospects  Abdul Razak Mohamed.- Chapter 17: Relationship between Ethics in Planning Education and Sustainable Urban Development  Ravishankar, D., Krishne Gowda, and Sridhara, M.V.- Chapter 18: Silences in the Indian Planning Academy: Spatiality, Diversity and Participation  Ashok Kumar.- Chapter 19: Imparting Inclusivity in the Process of Planning Education: Educating the Next Generation of Professionals through Participatory Learning  Preeti Onkar Singh and Krishna Kumar Dhote.- Chapter 20: Value Education in Planning for an Effective Professional Outreach  Srikonda Ramesh.- PART IV: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLANNING EDUCATION Chapter 21: The Place of Time in Planning Education  John Minnery.- Chapter 22: Planning Education in an International Perspective: Making the Best from Global and Local Knowledges  Raffaele Paloscia.- Chapter 23: Changing Context for Planning Education in the UK and the Prospects for Research-Led, Practice-Engaged Teaching  Geraint Ellis, Brendan Murtagh, Lisa Copeland.- Chapter 24: Learning and Teaching Quality of Life Mapping: A Geographical Perspective  Javier Martinez.- Chapter 25: Aligning Training of Town Planners with Local Realities: A Case of the Voluntary Service Overseas Programme to Strengthen Local Planning Capacity in Zambia  Hemalatha M.C. and Peter Cockhead.- Chapter 26: Project-Based Learning in the Planning Education Program for Environmental Innovators in the Time of Climate Change  Wangling Yan.- Chapter 27: Conclusions: Planning Education in India for the Future  Ashok Kumar