SPA Delhi Masters Programme

I have done bachelor degree course from Swift college and I want to do Master degree course from School of Planning and the Architecture, Delhi so tell me the Master degree courses offered by this College? tell me the admission criteria for these courses?

Can you provide me the syllabus for Master of Urban Design (M.U.D) Program offered by SPA (School of Planning & Architecture), New Delhi?

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The syllabus for Master of Urban Design (M.U.D) Program offered by SPA (School of Planning & Architecture), New Delhi is as follows:


Semester – 1

UDF – 01 URBAN HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT THEORY- I

Objective:
The objective of the course is to provide an understanding of development theories and the historical circumstances in which they evolved. It traces the historical path of urbanization as a process and examines the spatial correspondence between urban patterns through space and time and connected development paradigms focusing on pre-industrial settlements and urban centres, especially with regard to Asia and South Asia.

Content:
• The notion of ‘Development’, theories of development, debates on development vs growth
• History of economic thought and spatial dimensions of economic thought
• Economic Thinkers- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Maynard Keynes, etc
• Great Depression of 1929: Economic consequences, economic exigencies of the 2nd World War
• Overview of social and economic change in India
• City as a complex system
• City in History, continuity and transformation
• City types and form - evolution of city form
• Medieval cities
• Renaissance and Baroque cities
• Colonial Cities
• From architecture to public space

The seminar will probe a theoretical idea/s and study the connected morphological manifestation through urban space characteristics. The foundations of theoretical and/or empirical inquiry leading to a public presentation of findings would form the main thrust of the exercise.
Internal assessment for the theoretical component of the course is through a seminar of 100 marks and through a written examination of 50 marks

Learning Outcome:
Students are equipped with an exposure of the historical evolution of urban settlements and connected development theories towards a clear understanding of the morphological dimensions of urban patterns and spaces.


Syllabus M.U.D Program SPA (School of Planning & Architecture), New Delhi