Township Planning in and around Chennai City Limits Research Proposal

Township Planning in and around Chennai City Limits - Research Proposal Example With specific subject related colleges represented by Anna University and Madras Medical College. Despite its ongoing development as a leading commercial metropolis, Chennai is also responsible for housing 5% of the entire slum population of India, together with a significantly high migrant population.1 This proposal will outline a framework for consideration based on the principal that as a city Chennai needs to incorporate a great many factors into its attempts to expand and develop industrially, educationally and for the benefit of its existing residents and future population. In particular it will seek to demonstrate the advantages of recent city growth in the form of townships. How the city is developing and reinventing itself as a consequence of these new developments The literature for this research will broadly split into three categories. Each category will be the focus of the three fundamental chapters. With the fourth and final chapter dedicated to rationalizing the findings. The first category will focus on the history of Indian town planning. This will provide a context within which the current situation and consequences of modern day townships being developed throughout Chennai will be rationalized. It will explore the reminiscent British influence and the Victorian concept of municipality and how this was first established in Madras (now Chennai). Research Publications such as the Transformation of Housing Policy and other documentation sourced from the Indian Institute of Public Administration, together with books like Indian Government & PoliticsBy Sharma Manoj which detail the period of the 1960's amongst others as eras that can be defined as playing a major role in the development of urban planning models. The second category to be investigated will involve a demographic overview including the current economic and social situation in Chennai in the twenty first century. This will be achieved through the presentation of collated statistics the overall socio-economic situation of the population by illustrating the differences across the city and its outskirts. There have been a number of qualitative and quantative research studies carried out on the population of this particular city including Quality of Life of Migrant Households in Urban Slums, by S. Sundari, Alcohol Abuse Among The Coastal Communities In Chennai District, Tamil Nadu Tsunami Resource Centre, Prof. L. S. S. Manickam Ph.D. Dr. Joshi Basil PhD, An Adaptive Ecosystem Approach to Managing the Urban Environment for Human Health, Martin J. Bunch. The case for being able to demonstrate the current situation of the people of Chennai, their history of housing issues, poverty and deprivation as a result of demographic circumstance will help legitimise the overall picture of Chennai as a city whose population has suffered and continues to do so without the necessary changes to infrastructures a nd controls on building and residency issues. These statistics will be supported by a number of text based