A Peri Urban Hybrid Node

 -  By Attaining Equity And Resilience In Accommodating Haphazard Growth In The Urban Fringe

The Urban Expansion and Regeneration Planning (UERP) Studio of Monsoon 2020, aimed at exploring the micro level planning and methodology in green field and brown field areas. The studio equipped the students in understanding the different lenses including land market, infrastructure, costing, transport, finances etc. Also, the practical approaches of reconstitution, incentive based appropriation are embraced. 

Manipur, an outgrowth in the western part of Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA). This study area maintains a strong impact by the proposed DMIC, industrial estates, SIRs , development plan proposed institutional zone and also by the city growth influx. The UERP studio aimed to consider micro level planning in Manipur region by means of Town planning scheme, a planning intervention in this green field area which is the need of the hour considering the impacts. Town planning scheme is an green field planning mechanism, widely practiced in Gujarat as per GTPUDA, 1976, which required rationale thinking, the ability to overview and handle multiple concerns and also grounded practical thoughts.