Nilesh Kishor Kulkarni

4500-2

APS Studio Lab: The studio AIMs to develop students' capacity to think like planners and equips them with the necessary elementary skills. Through a project of an area plan studio explores different aspects of planning process that balances the needs of people, conflicting interests, financial or administrative constraints. All of these with the broad goals of enhanced liveability, sustainability and social equity. Due to the urban challenges we face today, this studio‘s main focus is urban. Planning operates within administrative functions and policies of a city. The planning process is legitimized, implemented, administered and disseminated by the municipal authority. Presently in Ahmedabad, like many other Indian cities, a comprehensive city-level plan (called Development Plan or DP) is prepared every ten years, and then micro-level planning is taken up at the periphery through the tool of town planning schemes. Now, as the city becomes denser, micro-planning will become more important. Thus, the main task in the first planning studio is to prepare a plan for the basic administrative unit—a municipal ward i.e. in our case Paldi ward—within the city of Ahmedabad.