Readdressing liveability in Surat

Development Plan is the most important and powerful statutory tool to plan an urban area, and facilitate and manage its growth. Due to its statutory nature, it has potential to directly influence the growth and development of the city and its surrounding urban area. Conventionally, however, such plans become merely an exercise in mapping and control regulations; and fail to effectively integrate different sectors, resulting in unaffordable, incongruent, and inequitable development. Throughout the studio we worked on iteratively to develop core competencies in making a Development Plan (DP) which would go beyond the conventional approach to zoning and regulations.Through various exercises, we perceived understanding different approaches of planning for development.This encouraged to rethink the conventional ‘predict and provide’ approach, and thus prepare a plan that is robust enough to withstand the uncertainties of growth and development trends.The studio was conducted in a way so as to first start studying a precinct of 1 sq.km and thus envision long term and short terms goals.Then we proceeded further to study the developmental policies and master plans of various cities and thus develop a comparison between them which we would implement in our further city development plans.The portfolio is thus a collective report of the various stages undergone throughout the process. Iteration 1: Existing Situation Assessment & initial concepts Rapid Exercise 1: Precinct Planning Iteration 2: Comparative study of urban development models Iteration 3: Final DP with proposals, DCRs, cost estimate & phasing.
Throughout the portfolio , land and its transformation is focused on to make the city liveable for its citizens.

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