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Friday, October 25, 2013

Some useful books for planning

Right now i am solving gate 2007 qp. Simply not solving, but researching all the multiple choices. i will post all useful links here as i study. BTW i found some books which gives a good overview of planning topics. will share the name of books
1. Architecture and town Planning by satish Chandra Agarwala(dhanpat rai and co)
2. Town Planning- by Rangwala(charotar publishing house)
3. Fundamentals of town planning- by G K Hirasker(dhanpat rai )
4. Time Saver Standards for Urban Planning- Watson, Donald, Google books
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=OeHdu9BqO-0C&pg=RA3-PA27&dq=fine+grain+uniform+texture+housing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=83d8UuiiEOW1iAe_yYCYBw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fine%20grain%20uniform%20texture%20housing&f=true

 These books cover housing. planning, traffic planning etc and each cost around Rs. 100, except the time savers which will cost abour Rs. 3000. Available in most academic bookstores. I did hunt around for gate prep books for architecture to no avail. So we will have to gather info on our own. Internet is an excellent resource to research while solving the question papers.

2 comments:

  1. Do we need to buy all the books or is one enough?

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    1. I think you can buy all books except time savers, they do not cost much, some books have some topics covered better, you can find most of them at second hand stores for half the price

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