REGIONAL PLANNING

UNIT-I (Fundamental Concepts) : Concepts and Rationale of Planning, Concept of Region and Regional Planning, Planning, Planner and Plans. Planning Policy Making and Implementation. The History of Planning in the Third World, The Planning Agencies. The Professional Planner, The Planner in the Society. UNIT-II (Some Theoretical Considerations) : Economic Growth Theories: Rostow, Dualism and Theories of Modernization, dependency models, Regional Development Theories: Hirshman, Mydral, and Perroux. Friedman, Spatial Structure of Regions: Central Place Theory (Christaller, Losch and Galpin), Growth Pole Theory. UNIT-III (Planning Procedures and Techniques) : Methods and techniques of Regionalization, Techniques in Preparation of Regional Plans, Choosing Planning Techniques in the Developing Countries, Appraisal Techniques, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Forecasting, modelling and plan design, The System of Rural Centres: Functions of Rural Centres and Procedures for Drawing Up a Hierarchical Rural Centre Plan. UNIT-IV (The Operational and Spatial Level of Planning Activity) : Operational Level: Project Planning, Sectoral Planning, Integrated Area Planning, Comprehensive National Planning. Spatial Level: The Concept Decentralization and decentralization, Decentralization in Planning, The Top-Down and Bottom Up approach, The choice of Spatial planning levels. UNIT-V (Regional Planning in India) : The efforts of Regional and Rural Development Planning in India, Spatial Structure Administrative Set-up for Regional and Rural Development Planning in India, Regional Imbalance and Regional Disparity in India, Multi-Level and Decentralized Planning in India, Development of Backward Areas, Planning for Tribal Development, Multipurpose River Basin Planning.