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Eco Urban Design

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with the needed knowledge and skills, which enable them to define a theoretical basis in the principles of urban design and the possibilities of creating more sustainable and harmonious urban spaces, public transportation systems, architecture, urban landscaping, ecology and master planning. The course in addition examines the underlying principles of sustainable design within the built environment. It focuses on environmental issues and design processes that enable professionals to create a more sustainable world. Students will be able to analyze cases from the surrounding current urban environment. Analysis looks at a specific aspect such as traffic, uses, view shed, skyline, wind, solar exposure, urban grid, urban resource supply and demand, etc. These analyses then become the basis for an urban design strategy to be proposed and developed by students.
  • Course Goals
  • Good Health and Well-being
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Affordable and Clean Energy
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Climate Action

Requirements

UPL211

Description

  • English Description

    Principles of creating more sustainable and harmonious urban spaces, public transportation systems, architecture, urban landscaping, ecology and master planning, tools and techniques for analysis of the health and efficiency of urban environments, traffic, uses, view shed, skyline, wind, solar exposure, urban grid, urban resource supply and demand.
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (15) + tr.Major Assessment (45 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 35% , tr.Self_learning 5% , tr.Seminar 5% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (25)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 4, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • - Bentley, Alcock, Murrain, Mcglynn, and Smith, Responsive Environments, A Manual for designers, Butterworth Architecture, (1985).
  • - Moughtin. Cliff. ET., Peter Shirley, Urban Design; Green Dimensions, Second Edition, Architectural Press. (2015).
  • - Gosling, David, Gordon Cullen: Visions of Urban Design, Academy Editions, (2016)
  • - Sassi, P.; Strategies for sustainable architecture, Routledge, 2015.
  • - David, G. Gordon Cullen Visions of Urban Design, Academy Editions, 1996.