Urban PlanningCounterintuitive Outcomes to

Enabling Framework

Vidyadhar K. Phatak

Presentation at the Conference on Affordable Housing and Housing Finance

January 27-28, 2010New Delhi

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Conventional Urban Planning

Axioms of Planning

Counterintuitive Outcomes

Technique Avowed Goal Outcome

Conservation Zones

Protect vulnerable areas: River Beds, Unstable Hill Slopes, Land below power lines

Unauthorised occupation by the poor

Green Belts Prevent sprawl Increased land prices.Unplanned peri-urban development

Designation of land for Public purposes

Provision of physical and social infrastructure

Non acquisition-Scarcity led price increase-Unauthoriseddevelopment

Counterintuitive outcomesTechnique Avowed goal Outcome

Max Density FAR

Infrastructure matchQuality of life

Scarcity of development rights > increased prices

Min. Plot / Room Sizes

Quality of life Unaffordable shelter

Building materials, water and sanitation norms

Health and Safety

Increased cost > unaffordable shelter

Urban Plans: Enabling Frameworks

Finance

Urban Plans: Enabling FrameworkLand Market

Affordable Housing: Land & Finance

81-100

61-80

41-60

21-40

0-20

Improved access toFinance

Interest SubsidiesInterest Subsidies & Preferential Land allotmentSubsidised Public Housing

Capital Market Land Market

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