TGPSC Assistant Director of Town Planning Classes 2026

Planning theory & history of town planning: objects and principles of town planning; Ebenezer Howard's Three Magnets and Garden City; Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities; Sir Raymond Unwin and satellite towns; Sir Patrick Geddes (Father of Town Planning); Clarence Perry's Neighbourhood Unit concept; Concentric Zone, Sector and Multiple-Nuclei theories; Lewis Mumford and C.A. Doxiadis (Ekistics); Indus Valley / Harappan town planning, Mohenjo-Daro (Great Bath, Granary) and Harappa's drainage system; Shilpa Shastra town forms — Dandaka, Sarvatobhadra, Nandyavarta, Padmaka, Swastika and Prastara; Edwin Lutyens' Delhi, Chandigarh (Albert Mayer and Le Corbusier) and Jaipur.

Planning process & techniques: perspective, regional, development, master and local area plans; URDPFI guidelines and land-use zoning; contents and GIS-based process flow of a Development Plan; population forecasting — arithmetical, geometrical, incremental and logistic-curve methods; primary and secondary surveys; socio-economic, land-use and density surveys; mapping and scale of map; Town Planning Scheme, land pooling and reconstitution; Rajasthan Land Pooling Scheme Act 2016.

Region, infrastructure & transportation: classification of urban settlements; formal and functional regions; regional plan contents, SWOT and delineation of regions; land-use zones (U, I, T, PA, O, E, S); urban agglomeration, conurbation, umland, primate city and rank-size rule; water supply and demand (domestic, fire-fighting, institutional, industrial), sewerage, sanitation and solid-waste management; planning standards and social infrastructure norms; traffic volume, speed, origin-destination, parking and accident studies; PCU; four-stage transport model, modal split and travel-demand forecasting; BRTS, RRTS and public-transport integration.

Housing, environment & disaster management: housing need, demand, supply and shortage; housing typologies, development process and finance; houselessness and night shelters (Census 2011); Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process and 2006 amendments; Eco-Sensitive Zones and the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ); climate-change causes and impacts; Disaster Management Act 2005 and NDMA; National Disaster Management Plan 2016 and the Hyogo Framework; NDRF, resilient cities and the Incident Response System.

GIS, urban design, economics & schemes: GIS data models (vector, raster, hybrid, topological); GPS space/control/user segments, satellite constellation and types (DGPS, A-GPS); remote sensing and electromagnetic radiation; map projection and World Geodetic System 1984; total station, drone survey and georeferencing; NUIS, NNRMS and the National e-Governance Plan; Art Nouveau, Eclecticism, International Style and Deconstructivism; contemporary architects (Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Zaha Hadid, B.V. Doshi, Charles Correa, and others); green-building rating systems — GRIHA, LEED India and IGBC; green and compact cities and city typologies; the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; NAPCC's 8 national missions; urban land economics and land-management principles; PERT, CPM, Work Breakdown Structure and critical path; Smart Cities Mission, AMRUT, PMAY and HRIDAY; National Urban Transport Policy 2014 and National Housing & Habitat Policy 2007.