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Last Updated on: 1 Oct 2020
Article Index
We have compiled a list of articles based on a theme/ category/ use in form of PDF files with the link to articles on Planning Tank. This was demanded from a long time since it was becoming difficult to find the right and relevant content on the website. These list is referred to as “Study Units” since these focus on a particular aspect and can be referred to at any time. Please feel free to share these index of articles with your friends and colleagues.
- Urban Planning Academic & Awareness
- Academic Writing
- GIS, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
- Settlement Geography, Development Patterns & Development Plans
- Transport Planning
Articles about Urban Planning & Planners
Course Details, Descriptions & Informative Articles
- Urban Planning Job Description
- B.Planning course in India
- What is Environmental Planning?
- Why You Should Consider a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning
- Regional Planning – Need, Importance & Implementation
- Changes and History of Regional Planning in India
- Is Urban Planning meant for you?
- Basis of Infrastructure Planning for Urban Planners
- How Clinical Research can help in Urban or Environmental Planning
- What Does It Take to Become a Licensed Urban Planner in the USA?
- Tips before starting a Planning degree
- Tips for Students Planning to Study in Western Countries
- Placement scenario after M.Plan from School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi
- Reasons why Urban Planning is important for cities
- Landmarks & Development of Town Planning process in India
Blog & Opinions
- Why political agendas never actually solve your problems whereas planners can!
- Planning process without planners
- Loss to community because of incompetent planners
- Understanding the limitations of planning
- Planners as knowledge workers
- Understanding the limitations of planning
- Urban Planning – Largely Unknown Profession
- Little cognizance about Planning as an academic course
- Guidelines for Sustainable Urban Regional Planning
- How smart cities are leading Urbanization
Planning concepts & theories
- Gentrification – Definition, Causes and Examples
- Community Participation | Types, Process & Facilitation
Settlement Geography, City Models, types and evolution
- Ribbon Development | Meaning, Benefits and Features
- Geddesian Triad
- Aerotropolis: The New Emerging Urban Form
- Satellite City | Meaning, Characteristics, & Examples
- Galactic City Model
- Hoyt Model or Sector Model (1939) of Urban Land Use by Homer Hoyt
- The Rank-Size Rule by George Zipf (1949)
- Primate City & Primacy | Relationship between city sizes
- Rural urban fringe: Concept, History, Reasons, Issues
- Rural-urban continuum and causes of rural-urban continuum
- Multiple Nuclei Model of 1945 by C.D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman
- Burgess model or concentric zone model (1925) by Ernest Burgess
- Central Place Theory by Walter Christaller (1933)
Environment, Pollution & Other Global Issues/ Problems
Conventions, Summits, Action Plans & other agreements
- India and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)
- International Solar Alliance
- Climate Change Action in Asia
- Sustainable Development Goals United Nations
Descriptive & Explanatory Articles
- The Importance of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Marine or Ocean Pollution | Meaning, Types & Causes
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental degradation
- Various Types of Pollution – Air, Water, Soil, Noise etc
Informal Sector, Slums, Migration & Poverty
Informal Sector
- Planning and Informality in India
- Informal Sector in India
- Informal and Formal Settlements (Indian Context)
- Interpreting the “Sites of Entitlement” in informal India
Slums
- What is a Slum?
- Pragmatic Approach to Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai City (Part 1 of 4)
- Pragmatic Approach to Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai City (Part 2 of 4)
- Pragmatic Approach to Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai City (Part 3 of 4)
- Pragmatic Approach to Slum Rehabilitation in Mumbai City (Part 4 of 4)
- Relocation of Slum People: Case Study of Mumbai Railway Slum Relocation
- Sites of entitlement: claim, negotiation & struggle in Mumbai | Review
- Mumbai Slum Rehabilitation – Communicative Dimension of Critical Spatial Theory
- Slum Areas improvement and clearance Act
- Vote Bank Politics, Lobbying and Favoritism: Discrepancies of Slum Formation and Existence
Poverty
- Human Poverty Index (HPI)
- Causes of Urban Poverty
- Definition and Identification of rural poverty in India
Academic Writing
- What is Coursework? | Definition, Meaning & keypoints!
- Guidelines and steps for writing a coursework | Tips for good writing
- Importance of Guide/ Co-Guide for your Research Paper
- Types of Academic Writing | Planning Tank
- How to Write a Field Report?
- How to Develop Methodology For Your Research Paper
- How to Cite Sources Using the Harvard Referencing Style
Other Useful Articles:
Child Friendly Cities
- Child Friendly Cities: Integration, Institutionalization and Innovation (Part 1 of 5)
- Characteristics of a Child Friendly City (Part 2 of 5)
- The need and importance of Child Friendly Cities (Part 3 of 5)
- Understanding children’s need through lens of Urban Planning (Part 4 of 5)
- Towards Child Friendly Cities – Initiatives all over the World (Part 5 of 5)