Zeitschrift für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwesen

An Examination of Master Plan Ethnicity in Urban Areas

Abstract

Sitesh Singh

This study examines the government's approach to segregation through urban planning and the history of master planning in Kabul. The first of five master plans was created. The city of ethnic division was exacerbated by the civil war. The Pashtun, Tajik, and ethnic groups that live in three distinct zones make up the majority of the city's ethnic diversity. Starting with the initial master plan for Kabul in the continuing through the current urban design framework for Kabul, the urban planning literature and master plans for the city are examined. The authoritarian planning of the first three master plans was based on technical rather than communicative rationales. However, the city's ethnic segregation was abstractly addressed in the fourth master plan, which was developed through citizen involvement. In terms of participatory planning, the fifth master plan, the urban design framework, was a step backward by unequally distributing the future economic zones, administrative hubs, and facilities hubs it also ignored the city's ethnic segmentation. The city's ethnic segregation has been ignored in previous master plans the city approach to segregation through urban planning is not outlined in detail. The term divided city refers to a variety of phenomena in which cities are geographically separated according to ethnicity, race, income, and age. Social and ethnic segregation in western cities, civil war in Beirut, political division in Berlin, and intense inter communal conflict and violence as a result of ethnic or nationalist fractures all occur in an alarming number of cities.