Town Planning & Urban Management

Topics (10)

• 1
  Urbanisation
• 2
  Town Planning Theory
• 3
  Land Use Planning
• 4
  Transport Planning
• 5
  Urban Governance
• 6
  Historical Perspective of Urban Planning

  Planned towns in Europe, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates and Indus Valley regions including Mohenjodaro and Harappa.

• 7
  Housing, Community and Economic Development

  Equitable development and quality of life for disadvantaged groups.

• 8
  Public Policy and Urban Design Management

  Economics, policy analysis, political science and urban design for social and environmental problems.

• 9
  Sustainability, Environmental Policy and Planning

  Conservation and management of natural resources while promoting healthy development.

• 10
  Urban Information Systems

  Planning software and spatial analysis tools including GIS and SPSS.

The reading list straight from FPSC's revised Town Planning & Urban Management syllabus. Build your core preparation around these texts — examiner-favoured references that questions are routinely drawn from.

1. 1

   Introducing Town Planning

   Clara Greed

2. 2

   Introduction to Town and Country Planning

   John Ratcliffe

3. 3

   Town Planning for the Third World

   A.K. Bhatti

4. 4

   Contemporary Urban Planning

   J.M. Levy

5. 5

   Land Use, Planning and Zoning

   Peter J. Loughlin

6. 6

   Town and Country Planning in the UK

   J.B. Cullingworth and Vincent Nadin

7. 7

   Town Planning in Practice

   Raymond Unwin

8. 8

   World Cities and Urban

   Mike Jenks

9. 9

   Urban Land Use Planning

   Philip R. Berke

10. 10

    Environmental Science: A Global Concern

    William P. Cunningham

11. 11

    Megacity Management in the Asian and Pacific Region (Vol. 2)

    Jeffery Giles Stubbs, Clarke

12. 12

    Dying Cities: Surviving the Urban Jungle

    Somaiya N.

13. 13

    Handbook on Urban Sustainability

    Springer

14. 14

    Emerald Cities — Urban Sustainability and Economics

    Joan Fitzgerald

15. 15

    Growing Greener Cities

    Eugene Birch and Susan Wachter

16. 16

    The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities

    David Satterthwaite

17. 17

    The Poverty Curtain

    Mahbub-ul-Haq

18. 18

    Reflections on Human Development

    Mahbub-ul-Haq

19. 19

    Smart Cities

    Anthony Townsend