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Innovative Teaching in Town Planning in Architecture Curriculum
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Bachelor of Architecture curriculum in Indian Universities includes Subject of Townplanning in its Fourth Year of study. It incorporates Planning Theory and Planningstudio both. While teaching Planning in Bachelor of Architecture curriculum, it isnecessary to decide upon the scope of the subject and needs to be orientedappropriately. The aim of teaching Planning to an Architecture student is definitelydifferent as it is essential to understand the need of learning Town Planning for anArchitect and its application in his practice. It is necessary to teach Planning in sync withArchitectural Design projects in concerned Year of Bachelor of Architecture curriculum.Generally the fourth year consists of Housing and urban Design projects in ArchitecturalDesign. Through appropriate content and teaching of planning subject, it needs to beseen that it is supporting and adding to the understanding of the Design curriculum. Outof various aspects of planning it is important to decide which of them are appropriate forArchitecture curriculum. The paper aims at studying the curriculum of selectedUniversities and associated pedagogy. Comparative analysis of these case studies isused to withdraw the inferences. Inferences are also based upon content of syllabus ofPlanning and its application to Architectural Practice. A common module of syllabus ofPlanning is prepared and appropriate pedagogy is suggested in the form of set ofguidelines. The same is applicable for framing the new syllabus structure for concernedsubject in Indian Universities. It consists of feedback from experts in the field ofArchitecture and Planning which contributes for finalizing content of the subject.
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Pedagogy, Architecture, Education, Housing, Urban Design.
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