Planeamento e Projeto Urbano

Objectives

- Understand the major current problems facing cities, the challenges that arise in the long term and the role of urban planning - Understand the different types of urban planning, its various instruments, especially plans and projects - Understand the influence of physical support on urban development, the good integration of the city with nature with a view to sustainability, the climate change and biodiversity - Understand the city as a complex adaptive system, its metabolism, its main elements and relationships

• infrastructures, actors, ... - and the mechanisms of complexity - Understand the different models of urban planning, the methodology for developing plans, their implementation, monitoring and evaluation - Understand urban development operations and urban projects, in particular the Land Subdivision project - Understand urban design, pre-dimensioning of urban infrastructures and the economic-financial perspective.

Syllabus

The city and its models. The production of urban land. The unplanned occupation. The Theory and the Process of Urban Planning. Types of urban land occupation.Structure plans and zoning plans. Territorial models. Classification and qualification of land use in plans. Structuring elements of a city. Planning for Sustainability Transition – Social facilities, Hard urban infrastructural systems, the Urban Green infrastructure, and sustainable urban food systems. Legal types of plans. Expansion areas and urban boundary, Smart growth, Urban Rehabilitation, Implementation of plans. Urban private initiatives and the need for planning. The Land Subdivision Project. Design and urban composition. Urban form and the sense of order. Greening the city: buildings, public space, NBS. Actors, responsibilities, economic value of urban land, costs, risk, business models, and real estate market. Monitoring and evaluation of plans. Public participation.

Cross Competence Component

This course allows the development of transversal skills in citizenship and urban policies, socio-ecological development and critical thinking, namely strategic thinking and problem-solving approaches, throughout the development of the two Projects. It allows learning teamwork tools (project work), namely the definition of objectives, goals and organization and programming of group tasks and the development of a spirit of cooperation. The assessment of this component is included in the assessment of Group Work (Project).

Programming And Computing Component

To carry out the exercises, students are invited to explore databases, to use approaches through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to use available software, namely that which is more oriented towards urban design.

Ethical Principles

All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.