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Department of Architecture & Regional Planning

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Course: Master of City Planning Class: First Year
Subject: Planning Workshop Assignment: PW/4/2014

Assessing Capital Cities of India

Urban forms influence the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development,
but urban forms continue to maintain their own autonomy. Social and economic factors play a key
role in the design of the city, but are not sufficient to explain it. The dynamic of urban forms deserves
to be set apart for purposes of analysis.

Urban energy consumption is a growing concern due to the acknowledged need to mitigate climate
change and the large proportion of energy used in cities. While some governments are committing
themselves to reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, they need tools to measure the
current performance of their cities, to find the levers to reduce it and to assess the efficiency of the
actions engaged. This is why assessment systems play such a key role. However, cities are incredibly
complex systems, made of components that can be identified using different point of views.
Assessments based on single or simple metrics such as energy flows are insufficient to address the
wider socio-ecological aspects of cities.

The list of indicators presented here offers a new analysis of the layers of the city, of its components
and of the interactions between them. These indicators enable the built environment of different
cities in the world to be described and compared, along with an assessment of the energy
consumption and environmental consequences linked to urban forms. Such an approach focusing on
urban morphology at different scales is exceptional and promising.

Therefore the fourth exercise aim at providing you an opportunity to understand the principles of
urban planning in general and use of various analytical tools and techniques for comparing the
urbanization pattern in India. You have to understand while examining in detail the earlier stages of
planning exercise and make a compilation of synthesized result for a better explanation of the effect
and causes of urban India.

Resource Materials: Consistent with a studio approach, students will be expected to identify and
acquire the background materials necessary to successfully respond to the project. Students should
expect to identify and acquire additional resources on their own, and to share them with the other
students in their group and with their studio.

Thus the whole study has been divided into various themes (comprising set of indicators) for easy
handling of work. Two/Three/Four members would form a group to undertake each theme for
presentation as follows:


Group I: Demographic Characteristics (4 nos.)
density of population (1991, 2001 & 2011)
decadal population growth rate (1991-2001 & 2001-2011)
age and gender distribution (choose age bracket appropriately so that young dependent
population, working population and aged dependent population are represented)
workforce participation rate (for last two/three decades)
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concentration of population (measurement of Gini Co-efficient by ward level population data)
Group members: Neenu Thomas, Deepank, Emil Abraham, Himanshu Sonber

Group II: Settlement Characteristics (5 nos.)
share of the State's urban population
nos. of Class I towns within 300 km
age of settlement
urban functions (initial and predominant urban function; chronology of change)
development intensity within city limits (maximum allowable FAR, ground coverage &
building height)
Group members: Kameswara Sharat,Rituparna Das, Shivangi Parmar, Ankur Baghel, AmitKumar

Group III: Micro-climate and Soil Characteristics (3 nos.)
temperature variation (diurnal)
average annual rainfall
type of vegetation coverage
predominant type of soil
depth of ground water table
Group members: Shreyas Bharule, Priti Singh, Nihal verma

Group IV: Land use/cover characteristics (4nos.)
share of developed land under transportation, residential, and public semi-public uses
share of vacant land and built-up land
diversity in plot sizes under housing, commercial and public facilities
variation in form factor
Group members: Pranabjyoti, Johnson Singh, Vaibhav Bhatnagar, Misbahuddin

Group V: Traffic and Transportation characteristics (4 nos.)
length of road per sq.km and per lakh population (more than 2-lane road to be considered)
no. of buses per lakh population (Private and Public both)
average trip generation rate (both motorised and non-motorised)
average trip length (work trip)
share of motorised and non-motorised trips
accident per lakh population & fatality ratio i.e. deaths per accident
vehicle ownership (two wheeler and car)
Average distance between vehicular road intersections
Group members: Bharat Vij, Viswatej, ShreyaBanerjee, Sayoni Mitra

Group VI: Housing characteristics (4 nos.)
average HH size and density
share of DU owned/rented
share of DU having permanent building materials as wall and roof
share of HHs living in slums
indicators of land value for residential and commercial floor space
Group members: Praseeda K.B. Sachin Sahu, E M Sooraj, Vishrut Panchal.



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Group VII: Physical Infrastructure facilities (4 nos.)
share of HHs having access to safe drinking
per capita water supply
share of water supply from various water sources
share of HHs having access to safe sanitation facilities
per capita solid waste collected at city level
Group members: Samya Rakshit, Mohd. Rajaullah, Debjani Saha, Mousumi Mallick

Group VIII: Social Infrastructure facilities (4 nos.)
nos. of primary school, secondary school, higher secondary school per lakh population
nos. of college, university, medical/engineering college per lakh population
nos. of primary health center/hospital per lakh population
nos. of police station, fire station, bank, hotels (3 star facility or more), stadiums per lakh
population
Group members: Ashna John, Shibsekhar, Allain Ekka, Falguni, Tailor

Group IX: Performance of Local economy (4 nos.)
commercial space per lakh population (both for retail and commercial, if available)
institutional space per lakh population (both public and semi-public)
per capita/ HH monthly income and expenditure
share of work force distribution for secondary and tertiary sector activities
cost of living index
Group members: Sumita soni, Jayant Sharma, Meshram Dikshant, Himangshi,

Group X: Local environment and social indicators (4 nos.)
per capita power consumption
total number of registered vehicles (two-wheelers, car/jeep, public transit and freight
vehicles)
rank of cities listed as polluted as per CPCB
past incidence of hazard (natural or anthropogenic)
crime rate reported in police records (homicide/rape/theft etc. category wise, if possible)
rate of migration
Group members: Santosh Kaur, Vipul, Sweta, Pradeep kumar.



Time Schedule
Introduction to the problem : Wednesday, 24
th
September 2014.
Preliminary Discussion : Wednesday, 8
th
October, 2014.
Submission of Database : Friday, 10
th
October, 2014.
Report Presentation in ppt. : Monday, 13
th
October,2014.

Studio Advisors: Prof. S. Sen. and Prof. T.N.Mazumdar.
Studio Associates: Amarjeet, Debapriya, Uma Gayatri