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Selected Topics in Urbanization Issues

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    • Master of urban planning survey techniques and performing different urban analysis and conducting the different urban studies, • Formulate appropriate upgrading techniques for the deteriorated city districts, • Identify the different types of informal areas and using the proper upgrading techniques for both the deteriorated and informal districts. Describe Sustainability and development, their history and evolution, concepts, and principles. • Identify sociological and cultural, urban political, demographic, and ethnic issues and their impact on the urban built environment, • Evaluate and assess demographic and economic growth, trends, and policies, and • Correlate development scenarios with the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Course Goals
  • No Poverty
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Contemporary challenges and issues related to urbanization processes with case studies from the international and local contexts
  • Arabic Description

    Contemporary challenges and issues related to urbanization processes with case studies from the international and local contexts
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 10% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
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  • • David Satterthwaite. )2007(. “Climate Change and Urbanization: Effects and Implications for Urban Governance.” http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/EGM_PopDist/P16_Satterthwaite.pdf. United Nations.
  • • Kaule, Giselher. 2000. Ecologically Oriented Planning, Peter Lang GmbH.
  • • Ngai Weng Chan, Hidefumi Imura, Akihiro Nakamura, Masazumi Ao (2016). "Sustainable Urban Development Textbook" Global Cooperation Institute for Sustainable Cities, Yokohama City University, Water Watch Penang, Penang.
  • • Pelsmakers, S. 2012. The Environmental Design Pocketbook. London: RIBA.
  • • Sanoff, Henry. 2000. Community participation methods in design and planning. John Wiley & Sons.
  • • Scholz, Roland W., and Olaf Tietje. 2002. Embedded case study methods: Integrating quantitative and qualitative knowledge. Sage.
  • • UN Habitat. 2016. World Cities Report 2016 Abridged Edition http://wcr.unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WCR-2016_-Abridged-version-1.pdf - Periodicals and Journals in Urbanization Issues - Periodicals and Journals in Urbanization Issues.