Urban and regional planning for long term disaster management: Course Outline (MSDM)

Relevance of this course

• This course is designed to help you make better decisions about the future of your city
• NOT a course to make you a professional planner
• Provide a general view and understanding that will make the rest of the course useful and interesting
• First Parts are the basic core about the use of planning and planners in shaping the city and the region
• Other modules go into more detail about specific aspects and issues in planning-- build on the basic core of understanding in this course
• •Major aim of planning is to make society a better place to live and work especially for cities and towns
• Yet this is lacking in most cities, particularly those in the developing world
• URP can be an effective regulatory tool in balancing economic, social and environmental needs arising from both local and global interests

Course contents

1. Introduction to urbanism/urbanization
2. History of urban planning
3. Urban planning process
4. Urban problems
5. Physical planning and concept
6. Planning law
7. Land-use models
8. Land-use & planning(environmentally)
9. Modern town planning/concept
10. Building construction/climate & environmental consideration in building
11. Pakistan building code 2007
12. Pakistan national conservation strategy
13. Relationship between disaster management & urban planning
14. Community base risk reduction/management
15. Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in to development process in pakistan
16. Smart growth
17. Resilient  cities
18. Toolkit for resilient cities
19. Regenerative design
20. Living machines- eco cities
21. Green- urbanism