Description
Objectives
- Understand the main problematics that affect urban areas and their related urban theories. - Understand the territory as physical support and its influence in the urban development. - Understand the urban complexity, its relationships and mechanisms, sustainability and city metabolism and the related dilemmas. - Understand the urban and master plans making process and the relationship with policy objectives - Identify problems, organize planning objectives and make a summary proposal for a land use territorial model; - To be able to prepare a land subdivision proposal and assess its economic viability. - Understand the different roles that the Civil Engineer, Architect, Environmental Engineer can perform in the process, both on public or private sector
Syllabus
1. The main problems that affect urban areas. 2. Urban theories: sociology, geography and economy contributions; the city as a system and as organism. 3. The biophysic aspects in urban development: land use capacity and biophysical restrictions, structuring elements, the water in urban spaces. 4. Urban metabolism, urban sustainability and complexity. 5. Urban plan, physical organization and strategy: concepts, objectives and methodologies. 6. Urban planning methodology: characterization and diagnosis, scenarios, objectives, model of urban structure in urban space design structuring elements, plan proposal, specific programs and implementation and funding. 7. The production of urban space: land subdivision projects and infrastructuration, detailed planning, urban project, 8. Monitoring and plans evaluation, governance and city administration.
Cross Competence Component
Skills for presenting ideas and communicating in public having in mind the preparation for social interaction within the scope of plans and / or projects. At least one of the 2 group works will have to be presented to the teachers and the other groups in the class, contributing to the final assessment of CA in a percentage of the order of 10%.
Programming And Computing Component
Without being mandatory, the use of skills in operating with Geographic Information Systems or computer aided design applications is encouraged.
Ethical Principles
All members of a group are responsible for the group's work. In any assessment, every students shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every students shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.