Urban Planning 2.1

Presentation

Reflection about the intervention in the city and urban existing territory, as a discipline aimed to improve their structure and  environmental patterns, witch planning exercise should inform on the results of the experimentation "as non-trivial machine capable of mediating the heuristic process of the recognition, strategic guidance and representation of the urban cultural state in which operates" (Bernardo Secchi, 1989).

The intervention in the city and territory naturally presupposes the understanding and correct interpretation of its rules and intrinsic characteristics, identifying the invariant factors of permanence and the modification levels inherent to their own facts and structures intervened.

Programme

Architecture

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 4

Year | Type of course unit | Language

4 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP286-14475

Recommended complementary curricular units

Recommended complementary subjects are Theory of Architecture 3.1 and History of Architecture 1.

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

The program of the course consists of a theoretical component and a practical component, with the following themes:

- Morphology of the physical support and urban morphology - reading for integrated forms, types and models, in diverse scales and morphogenetic contexts;

- Levels of compaction, densification and dispersion / diffusion of urban facts;

- Topological, symbolic and representational social (objective and prospective) contexts;

- The contingency of the models;

- Conditions for success of urban planning, cultural conformation and accreditation of skills, dynamics, agents and resources frameworks, particularly in relation to social and economic logics of urbanization;

- Macro trends of urbanistic activity and the exercise of management and town planning;

- Revaluation of the material and contents of urban planning instruments, observing their.

Objectives

Is desired the training for the interpretation of the facts, structures and systems present in the city and territory, as well as the understanding of the processes of transformation of the city and territory, for observation of planning instruments and urban management, rehearsing the purposes of corresponding regulatory and technical contents.

The precise identification of materials in urban design and the corresponding modification levels, from programs validated by appropriate strategies, is one of the bases for developing the pedagogical exercise intended.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

Will be conducted theoretical classes and practical exercises agreed with the objectives and methods of the discipline of project and of urbanistic remaining courses.

Participation in class matters as a frequency and evaluation factor.

The classification is the result of the weighted average of the ratings attributed to the following contents (30% +70%): Evaluation without final exam, based on individual assignments; continuous evaluation, implying the systematic presence of the students in all the classes and it is considered as a limit to obtain attendance at least 75% of the classes given.

- Review with a maximum of 5 pages size A4, of one the main references, or specific(s) thematic(s) context(s) worked in class, which will also be monitored by teachers of the discipline;

- Final test for evaluate the capacity for critical reflection on central thematic of the syllabus.

References

• NORBERG-SHULZ, C. -  Genius Loci ¿ Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture.  Milano: Ed. Electa, 1979.
• SOLÀ-MORALES, M.  - Les Formes del Creixement Urbá. Barcelona: Ed. UPC, 1993.  

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