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Town Planning Studio

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    At the end of the course, the students should be able to: create a complete account of the issues and challenges in the project area. analyze the current situation using various qualitative & quantitative tools propose future development scenarios based on current planning themes present their outcome in a compact, readable, accurate format
  • Course Goals
  • No Poverty
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Skills of systematic design of a strategic plan, applications of various (technical, functional as well as exploratory) design methods and planning techniques, The plan as a spatial and policy frame (a vision concerning the intended development of the area and a spatial concept) on the one hand and an action plan (projects, measures) on the other,  The design a process (leading to a strategic plan) as well as the plans and projects that relate to it, The relationship between the long-term vision, the phase of conceptualization, the implementation and action, The studio is about complex area on a supra local scale (region, large city) in order to explore the relationship between different spatial scales and eventually the related policy levels.
  • Arabic Description

    Skills of systematic design of a strategic plan, applications of various (technical, functional as well as exploratory) design methods and planning techniques, The plan as a spatial and policy frame (a vision concerning the intended development of the area and a spatial concept) on the one hand and an action plan (projects, measures) on the other,  The design a process (leading to a strategic plan) as well as the plans and projects that relate to it, The relationship between the long-term vision, the phase of conceptualization, the implementation and action, The studio is about complex area on a supra local scale (region, large city) in order to explore the relationship between different spatial scales and eventually the related policy levels.
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (15) + tr.Student Activities (50 = tr.Industry 10% , tr.Project 30% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + tr.Oral/Practical (15) + Exam Grade (20)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 4, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • Francesco Alberti et al, 2022, Urban and Transit Planning: Towards Liveable Communities: Urban places and Design Spaces, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation, Springer, ISBN: 3030970450,9783030970451
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  • ** Useful Links:
  • https://unhabitat.org/urban-themes
  • https://planning.org/blog/9210181/tracking-major-themes-in-urban-planning-literature/
  • https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2017/10/31/25-great-ideas-new-urbanism
  • https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Housing-Classifications_tbl1_311626984
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622886/
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203611
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308338921_Mapping_the_hotspots_and_coldspots_of_ecosystem_services_in_conservation_priority_setting
  • https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#active=47471&ext=-115.36416,36.03142,-115.23284,36.09657
  • https://zoom.earth/
  • https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=10&lat=41.9&lng=12.5&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&toTime=2022-10-09T20%3A02%3A17.230Z - Luc Adolphe, 2022, Integrated Urban Environment Management and Resilience: From the Contemporary City to Sustainable Urbanity, Architecture, Urban Planning and Development: Integrated Environment Management and Resilience, Wiley-ISTE, ISBN: 1789450772,9781789450774.