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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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