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Urban Systems and Infrastructure Training

The School of Systems and Infrastructure focuses on the physical infrastructure and systems of cities, including mobility, water, sanitation, energy, and land use. It will offer concentrations in planning, housing, infrastructure, and urban design. Key focus areas include settlement planning, energy, environmental services, and urban transportation. The school provides capacity building for professionals in areas like urban water supply and sanitation, storm water management, solid waste management, urban mobility, and urban green spaces. Courses combine policy overview with practical solutions to address gaps between policies and outcomes.

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Urban Systems and Infrastructure Training

The School of Systems and Infrastructure focuses on the physical infrastructure and systems of cities, including mobility, water, sanitation, energy, and land use. It will offer concentrations in planning, housing, infrastructure, and urban design. Key focus areas include settlement planning, energy, environmental services, and urban transportation. The school provides capacity building for professionals in areas like urban water supply and sanitation, storm water management, solid waste management, urban mobility, and urban green spaces. Courses combine policy overview with practical solutions to address gaps between policies and outcomes.

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School of Systems

And Infrastructure
Brief
The School of Systems and Infrastructure is particularly identified
with the ‘spatial and physical/material terrain’ of urban research and
practice including its social, economic and political dimensions. Cities
consist of various overlapping systems, such as mobility, water,
sanitation, solid waste management, energy, food and land. These
systems are the central concern of the School.
Within the proposed degrees at IIHS IOE, the School will be the
core location for the Concentrations on Planning, Housing,
Infrastructure, and Urban Design. It is also envisaged that
specialised Concentrations in each of the infrastructure systems
will be offered separately, including mobility, energy, and
environmental services.
KEY FOCUS AREAS
● Settlement Planning

● Energy

● Environmental Services

● Urban Transportation and


Mobility
Capacity
Building
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation: The UPP leverages its internal and external
faculty and practitioner network in the area of water supply and sanitation to
deliver cutting edge programmes on universal coverage and programme
management. Apart from conducting lectures and sessions in audio-visual
formats on water supply, sanitation and septage management, UPP conducts
visits to several sites of best practices to enable experiential learning for the
participants. The modules are conducted as part of the Atal Mission for
Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) individual integrated capacity
building programme, as well as specialised workshops for HUDCO, covering
understanding of urban sanitation systems, and their planning, implementation
and maintenance.
Storm Water Management
The UPP addresses the issue of urban flooding and its
prevention taking both a planning and infrastructure
approach, in which adequate stress in laid on optimal spatial
planning of urban areas accounting for natural drainage
systems, as well as the creation and utilisation of green
infrastructure, besides well-designed networks for storm
water drainage. Specialised courses are conducted on this
topic as part of the integrated capacity building programme
under the AMRUT mission.
Solid Waste Management
Best practices in Municipal Solid Waste Management including
segregation at source, safe disposal, recycling and reuse, and case
studies from around the world form part of UPP’s specialised
modules on Solid Waste Management. These courses
complemented by site visits to demonstrate the importance of
efficient municipal solid waste management, are delivered under
the AMRUT integrated capacity building programme. The aims and
objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission are also covered as part
of these modules.
Urban Mobility
As part of the integrated capacity building programme under
the AMRUT mission, as well as for other interested urban
practitioners, UPP conducts specialised modules on public
transport and non-motorised transport focussing on design,
equity, access and safety.
Urban Green Spaces

UPP conducts specialised modules on urban green spaces, which are intended
to improve the liveability and amenity value of urban areas, with a special focus
on children and senior citizens with regard to planning and spatial design.
These are delivered as part of the integrated capacity building programme
under the AMRUT mission.
In each of these themes,
course offerings combine an overview of the
governance and policy framework, and current practice
to arrive at an understanding of the prevalent situation.

Participants are encouraged to employ a


systems thinking approach both to formulate
alternative governance and policy frameworks, and to
find solutions to address gaps between policies and
practice and propose ways to achieve the desired
outcomes as need be.

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