Principles of City Planning

Urban Pattern

An urban pattern is the geometry, regular or irregular, formed by routes, open spaces and buildings. 

Grain  is the degree of fineness or coarseness in an urban area. Texture  is the degree of mixture of fine and coarse elements

Urban Planning Movements

City Beautiful Movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movement

Garden City movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_city_movement

Urban Planning Theories

Sector theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_model

Multiple Nuclei Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_nuclei_model

Neighbourhood theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood_unit

Central Place Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_place_theory

Concentric Zone Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentric_zone_model

Theories of Economic Growth

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=6ovflNH98oEC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=export+base+model+by+douglas+c.+north&source=bl&ots=TibJ1drAKm&sig=Xp3jvQ16QXdFysvgkZPn-3jMoFg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U3ClUqmZHImWiQeU4IDADA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=export%20base%20model%20by%20douglas%20c.%20north&f=false

read chapter 6 from the above google book. you can buy a copy too. helpful for gate planning questions

Input output Analyses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_model

City Shapes

Grid Iron

Washington DC

Chandigarh

Mohen-jo Daro
Tokyo
Los Angeles

  

Radial/Spideweb/radio concentric/ring

New Delhi

Finger Plan/Star

Copenhagen

Core Form-dense vital center
Dallas

Linear

Mumbai, Stalingrad
Broadacre

Galaxy[multi nuclei]
Ohio, North Germany

Ring Form

Holland, San Francisco

Polycentered Net(widespread with differentiated foci)

Detroit