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Urban governance and Development Management (UGDM)
Prof. Uttam Kumar Roy · IIT Roorkee
About
Our cities are shaped by the professionals working at the city and regional level organizations like municipal corporations, development authorities etc. In the current day paradigm, the role of professionals like city planners and city managers at the urban sector is multifarious and ever challenging in visioning, planning, designing and executing urban development projects. With the increasing role of city managers as expected in all centrally sponsored programmes like Smart City, PMAY, AMRUT, Swachh Bharat Mission etc the job profile of future city mangers is very much challenging. Thus curriculum in Urban Planning, urban management needs to be equipped with relevant and adequate knowledge and skills of urban governance and development management in addition to the classical knowledge of city and infrastructure planning. The course will impart a handful knowledge on urban governance, develop skills required for development management and self management for city managers. The course is designed with the combination of theoretical basics and examples/cases/reflective learning from current day practices to enable the students and professionals to get a comprehensive experience. The students studying at PG UG level of city planning and Management as well as the working professionals, public representatives working at the urban sectors will be benefitted from this course.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students, academicians and professionals working in the field of urban planning and management.
PREREQUISITES : B. Arch/B.E (Civil)/B Plan M.A/MSc (Economics, Geography, Sociology).
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Urban Development Missions and Project Management Units, Development Authorities and Municipal Corporations.
Lectures
Week 1
- Introduction to Urbanisation
- Introduction to Urban Governance
- Constitutional Provision for Urban Local Governance
- Legislative Provisions
- Interfaces
Week 2
- People & Community-1
- People & Community-2
- Land as Basic Resource
- Urban Environment and Ecology
- Distinctive Features of Non-Municipal Urban (NMU) and Nagar Panchayats
Week 3
- Organisation Development
- Transparency and Accountability
- Capacity Building-1
- Capacity Building-2
- Improving Systems and Processes for Urban Governance
Week 4
- Urban Reform and Managing Change-1
- Urban Reform and Managing Change-2
- Visioning for Cities
- Resolving Conflicts for Managing Change
- Leadership and Team Building
Week 5
- Basic Concepts of Planning and Development
- Regional and Metropolitan Planning
- Urban Planning
- Urban Infrastructure and Services-1
- Urban Infrastructure and Services-2
Week 6
- Overview of Municipal Finance
- Alternate Sources of Municipal Finance
- Municipal Accounts
- Value Capture Financing
- Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Urban Governance
Week 7
- Housing Strategy for Cities
- Housing & Urban Poverty
- Real Estate Regulation and Development
- Urban Land Management
- Urban Risk and Disaster Management
Week 8
- Managing Urban Environment-1
- Managing Urban Environment-2 (Mandates for Blue and Green Infrastructures)
- Traffic and Transportation Management-1
- Traffic and Transportation Management-2
- Designing Urban Public Spaces
Week 9
- Centrally Sponsored Programmes and Schemes
- AMRUT
- Smart City: Concept and Mission
- Swachh Bharat Mission and HRIDAY
- PMAY and NULM
Week 10
- Fundamentals of Project Planning
- Formulation of Projects
- Project Monitoring and Management
- Essentials of Infrastructure and Engineering Design
- Managing Trans-municipal and Large Projects
Week 11
- Enhancing City Image
- Essential Competencies of City Managers
- Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Effective Negotiation
- Communication Skills
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Roorkee
- Department
- Architecture
- Teacher
- Prof. Uttam Kumar Roy
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Art, architecture and design
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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