{"id":390,"date":"2024-03-12T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kailashkut.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2024-03-12T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T08:54:14","slug":"talk-at-rupson-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kailashkut.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/talk-at-rupson-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk at RUPSON, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Talk delivered to the General Body of RUPSON, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Not to diminish the personalities like Hammurabi, Hippodamus, \u2026 rather to quickly come to modern days, we can say the filth, overcrowding and pollution of the Industrial City of the British, the deaths of 1850s, and the \u2018public health concern\u2019 brought to focus the idea of urban planning \u2013 For one hundred and fifty years, this has been the dominant objective of planning to service (transport, communication, housing the labor, providing water, power etc and extracting sewage and other harmful wastes) productive land uses. Pollution as an issue to contain has remained dominant too, particularly as the industries and settlements got closer and into each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Conservation, sustainability, climate change, ecological and health issues of not only man but earth itself have dominated concerns of urban planners for couple of decades now. With the new millennium in place, towns, which had all the while \u2018planned\u2019 to put nature on the outskirts, have sought to bring nature in and introduce consumption and production processes that seek to balance nature \/green\/blue in towns and integrate the panchatatwic interplay of materials and environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Despite the fact that urban planning has generally failed and has very few cases where planning success can be even claimed at all, it remains a professional specialization to recon with \u2013 as this gathering today shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO CONGRATULATIONS \u2013 In post 1960-Nepal, we are now in 15th<\/sup> plan period?\u2026 we go on \u2013 I suppose we are mostly physical \/spatial planners here today and our breed can claim consolidation since 1962\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> LUTO plan masters > architects posing as planners\/advisors\/ geographer at helm\/Regional planning > Harka Gurung Carl Pruscha combine (The Kathmandu Valley Plan generation) + UN Experts (reduced to non-entities by acts of CP\/HG\/GNR etc in early seventies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning by FIAT period \u2013 King Birendra, his four regional centers and task mastering visits \u2013 amid this I butt into the fraternity in 1973 \u2013 that\u2019s fifty years there already!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


1973: June \u2013 Birendranagar Plan \u2013 The Daily wage architect is dispatched to \u2018show\u2019 visible progress and takes the helm at Surkhet \u2013 MBM and GNR prod. The street is laid out and the earthwork begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KATMANDU VALLEY PLAN \u2013 that never was >> KATHMANDU VALLEY PLANS AND PROGRAM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975: Fears and Wishes in Planning \u2013 The skyscrapers in the valley rim and low rise traditional settlement pattern and architecture remain galore growing at the slowest rate possible? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Planning of KATHMANDU VALLEY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever planning I learnt from class and teachers was at University of Hawaii, where I was doing March with tropical housing as speciality and took a fair number of courses in URP under Prof Minervi, Prof Wu and Dr Yeh, whom some of you would have read\/studied under, maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOE Urban planning > Expertise of SPA \/NTNU \/ 1995 1996<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before starting to take classes \u2013 I did a three week stint at the Planning Library SPA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis Hopkins. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign > 97- 98<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learnt a lot from him too as he taught with our class here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 1997\/2008 at IOE Logic of Making Plans (2001) ><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenario planning > only push to preferred scenario through intervention of Trunk sewerage and link roads \u2013 How Prof Lew was amazed at our sincere theoretical planning efforts even as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comprehensive Planning and New towns were both dead where ever they had originated  \u2013 but LUTO stayed on as a easy tool in Nepal ?? But even then with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nepal tries every known approach and theory \u2013 whatever the American and British Universities and the UN experts (who appear to have taken a as deep a look into these as they could) \u2013 Comprehensive planning, Land Use and transport organization, Master planning, Structure Planning, IAP (Integrated Action Planning \u2013 what a soothing success that was \u2013 it was even being touted by UN expert planners as Nepal\u2019s contribution to Participatory Planning literature to the planning world)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But alas with our kind of Land ownership and elitist urban living, bureaucratic professionalism<\/strong>, decision makers wrapped in falsehood, nothing worked even with the great prodding and faithful support of King Birendra that had continued to the end of royal days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill Towns > Mid hill road >><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Towns >  District, Province, Election District > Numbers increase<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Constitution (2015) gives Urban infrastructure and Services to Province and Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Good\/Goods, Public Policy, Urban Development and Urban Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are still hoping that the very meagre investments in Urban Service of water, power, communication, sewerage can bail our towns out and plotted development (using LP tool)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2078: URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

URBAN CORRIDOR, CONGLOMERATE<\/strong> (MEGA TOWNS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> 273 NAGARPALIKA 60% URBAN ? DO WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE NUMBERS \u2013 GET YOUR DATA > THINK FUTURE > PREDICT > PLAN > EXPECTED FUTURE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engaging the Future > Heritage and Tourism??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

>>> Issue of governance becomes key along with infrastructure, Services and urban poverty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GLD\/LP >> Integrated Action Planning >  Is this kind of planning action useful? Can it address the kind of problem we have \u2013 How do we engage into the future > bring hope back to living in our own place managing life within our possible economies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Town \u2013 Satellite City \u2013 Smart City \u2013 Climate Smart city > Eco-city<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEFINITION OF SMART CITY :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[WILL THESE BE ENOUGH?
National Government > Integrated urban development policies and urban corridor development > tourism potential\/Heritage Assets > sporadic and limited field actions and projects under RUDP\/NUGIP \u2013 will they save our bigger towns?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Development Policy > Shelter\/Housing Policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developer led >>> Bubble economy of land transactions and housing units\/plots ..Falling\/Failing population ><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No we need to change the over arching philosophy in planning itself > go for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ECO-CITY >> ECOLOGY  >> Broad planning Ideals > control through Building > it was not failure of plans and planning that led to unsustainability \u2013 climate change and challenged health of earth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> five banes of present day town\/urban development > HOT, DRY, GREY, Deserted by other living\/life, Undisposed solid waste<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> five ways to building eco-city of the future > COOL, MOIST, GREEN, Living with other animals (birds, fish and earthworms)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

>> learn from the tree > \u00a0seek to bring nature into towns and introduce consumption and new production processes that seek to balance nature \/green\/blue in towns and integrate the panchatatwic interplay of materials and environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, here I end, Good Luck!<\/p>\n

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