Urban Planning

The Masters of Planning (with specialization in Urban Planning) Programme of the Department of Urban Planning, SPA-New Delhi is designed to prepare its students in skills of analyses of Physical, Social, Cultural, Economical, and Ecological dimensions of Urban Settlements and evolving solutions to various challenges and problems.

Over the course of a 2 year’s programme, our students receive training in the preparation of a various types of physical plans such as Outline Development Plan (ODP), Masters Plan and formulation of Detailed Project Report (DPR). Additionally, they are exposed to emerging concepts in urban planning including smart cities, inclusive cities, eco-friendly cities, livable cities, and sustainable cities, etc. which are gaining relevance in India's disclosure of policy. The students are prepared and trained to apply knowledge gained in the theory lecture and hands on training experience of various analytical techniques and empirically driven case studies based studio exercises related to comprehensive and micro level urban development issues for evolving appropriate development strategies.

This course has been specifically created to educate students on all aspects of urban land use, financing, and human settlement so that they can respond to new problems in the most analytical way possible. Students have performed well in the academic exercises and I am confident that our students with their endowed skills would prove to be an asset to any organization dealing with human habitat and built environment.

I sincerely wish them all the luck to achieve great heights in their future endeavors.