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What are the principles of urban planning? Critically analyse town planning in India in the post independence period.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Regional Planning

Survey before plan. Patrick Geddes made the diagnostic regional survey the first act of planning, and prescribed "conservative surgery" — minimal, incremental intervention that works with an existing settlement rather than clearing it.

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  • Principles of urban planning
  • The Indian record after 1947
  • The new-town moment, 1950s-1960s
  • The statutory master-plan regime, 1960s-1990s
  • Devolution and missions, 1992 onwards
  • Critical analysis
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