705-435 Advanced Urban Planning and Design

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Subject Description

The subject presents a series of lectures, readings and studio based practical work to illustrate that planning and design processes involve varied and complex tasks; for example, to solve a planning and design problem one first needs to understand the nature of the problem or no useful outcome will emerge. It will be assumed that students have done at least one semester of previous design work. The subject develops further skills in analysis and graphic and verbal communication of urban planning and design ideas; it will address issues in current urban planning and design theory and practice; present and evaluate alternative design methods and culminate in the planning and design of a small-scaled, energy-efficient streetscape or precinct. The project work, in particular, explores urban form and image analysis as a basis for a rational and replicable urban planning and design method that responds to the economic, social, political, aesthetic and ecological contact of urban development. The studio-based work includes a short exercise, a case study/critique, and a major project comprising a number of consecutive stages including an urban form and image analysis.

Assessment

Assessment will be progressive and based entirely on the coursework exercise, project, and case study to be submitted during the semester, the whole being equivalent to approximately 6000 words.