URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Paper Code: 
GEO 124
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • understand the process of urbanization and origin, growth and classification of urban        settlements with relevant theories and models;
  • examine the changing economic base and structure of the contemporary cities;
  •  relate urbanization process and the evolution of urban system;
  • examine the contemporary urban issues and suggest new urban planning and urban policy perspectives.

Course Outcomes (COs): 

Learning and teaching  strategies

Assessment 

Strategies

On completion of this course, the students will  be able to: 

CO1: Students will be able to understand  different paradigm and approaches of urban  geography. Understand the process of  urbanization and origin, growth and  classification of urban settlements with  relevant theories and models. 

CO2: Enhance knowledge about basic concepts,  evolutionary structure of urban economy. CO3: Students will be benefited by urban  morphology. Examine the changing economic  base and structure of the contemporary cities. CO4: Students will be able to understand  contemporary urban issues. 

CO5: Examine the contemporary urban issues  and suggest new urban planning and urban  policy perspectives.

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures,  

Discussion, Tutorials,  

Reading assignments,  

Demonstration, 

  

Learning activities for the  students: 

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar  presentation

Class test,  Semester end  examinations,  

Quiz, 

Assignments,  

Presentation,  

Individual and  group projects

 

15.00
Unit I: 

Nature and Scope of Urban Geography.

• Different Approaches and Recent Trends in Urban Geography

• Growth of Urban Settlements and Process of Urbanization

• Classification of Urban Settlements on the basis of Size and Function

15.00
Unit II: 

Urban Economic Base:

• Basic and Non-basic Functions

• Concept of Dualism

• Colonial and Postcolonial Structure

• Metropolitan City and Changing Urban Function; of Informal Sector in Urban Economy

15.00
Unit III: 

Organization of Urban Space:

• Urban Morphology and Land-use Structure: -City Core, -Commercial -Industrial -Residential Areas;

• Morphology of Indian Urban Settlements

• Umland,

• City Sprawl

• Urban Rural Fringe

15.00
Unit IV: 

Contemporary Urban Issues:

- Poverty,

-Renewal,

-Slums;

-Transportation,

-Housing, urban infrastructure,

-Urban environment,

-Urban crime,

-Environmental pollutions and solid waste

15.00
Unit V: 

• Urban Policy and Planning in India:

-Urban Policy

-Contemporary Issues in Urban Planning

-Globalization and Urban Planning

-JNUNURM

-Garden Cities

-Sustainable Cities

-Smart City and Resilient Cities

Essential Readings: 

• Siddhartha, K, Mukherjee, Subrata: Cities Urbanisation and Urban System (New Delhi: Kisalaya Publication Pvt. Ltd, 2000)

• Carter: The Study of Urban Geography (New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2010)

• Bhattacharya, B :Urban Development in India(Since Pre- historic Times) (New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company, 2006)

• Bansal: Urban Geography (Meerut: MeenakshiPrakashan, 2010)

• Ayyer, Kamal: Urban Geography (Ritu Publications, Jaipur, 2015) 11

• Mandal, R.B: Urban Geography : A Textbook (New Delhi : Concept Publishing Company, 2000)

• Singh, Om: Urban Geography (Jaipur : DND Publications, 2018)

• Rao, Prakasa VLS: Urbanization in India(Spatial Dimensions) ( New Delhi Concept Publishing Company, 2013)

• Ramachandran, R: Urbanization and Urban Systems in India (Oxford University Press, 2008)

• Understand the process of urbanization and origin, growth and classification of urban settlements with relevant theories and models

• Relate urbanization process and the evolution of urban system

Academic Year: 
2022-2023