Urban Planning Counterintuitive Outcomes to Enabling Framework

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Urban PlanningCounterintuitive Outcomes to
Enabling Framework

• Vidyadhar K. Phatak
• Presentation at the Conference on Affordable
  Housing and Housing Finance
• January 27-28, 2010
• New Delhi

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Content
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Conventional Urban Planning
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Axioms of Planning
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Counterintuitive Outcomes
Technique Avowed Goal Outcome
Conservation Zones Protect vulnerable areas River Beds, Unstable Hill Slopes, Land below power lines Unauthorised occupation by the poor
Green Belts Prevent sprawl Increased land prices. Unplanned peri-urban development
Designation of land for Public purposes Provision of physical and social infrastructure Non acquisition Scarcity led price increase Unauthoriseddevelopment
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Counterintuitive outcomes
Technique Avowed goal Outcome
Max Density FAR Infrastructure match Quality of life Scarcity of development rights gt increased prices
Min. Plot / Room Sizes Quality of life Unaffordable shelter
Building materials, water and sanitation norms Health and Safety Increased cost gt unaffordable shelter
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Urban Plans Enabling FrameworksFinance
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Urban Plans Enabling FrameworkLand Market
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Affordable Housing Land Finance
81-100
61-80
41-60
21-40
0-20
Capital Market
Land Market
Improved access to Finance
Interest Subsidies
Interest Subsidies Preferential Land allotment
Subsidised Public Housing
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