Subject(s): City Planning -- Land Use problems -- Urbanization in Kerala -- Plannig Standards -- Entry to city and city planning, origin and growth of cities, city planning , Ebenezer Howard and garden city movement, goals of modern town planning, environment planning, urbanization -- Human settlements and regional planning : UN conference, land use policy, Trivandrum city in its regional setting -- Town planners -- Cancerous growth of slums , traffic problems, prospering business on pavements, problems of development controls, trees in towns, planning standards, people's participation in planning, bureaucracy v/s technocracy, case for a national urbanization policy, population explosion- big challenge to planners, urbanization in Kerala state- problems and prospects