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Housing Studies

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: • Recognize the main components and actors of housing provision. • Identify the housing typology. • Differentiate between housing levels and prototypes. • Assess housing and services needs for a neighbourhood. • Conduct research and collect data from different sources (field work, archival records, internet….etc). • Work in teams (team work).
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Life Below Water

Requirements

UPL321

Description

  • English Description

    Housing market and needs: demand and supply issues, housing provision system, its components and relevant actors. Housing problems, housing typology in terms of types and levels. Assessment of housing and services needs for a neighborhood. Fundamentals of land parceling, with application in real project. Movement network, roads hierarchy, and parking areas. Application of theoretical studies in a project dealing with urban, social, and economic surveys for an existing area. Analysis and diagnosis of alternative solutions to housing projects.
  • Arabic Description

    Housing market and needs: demand and supply issues, housing provision system, its components and relevant actors. Housing problems, housing typology in terms of types and levels. Assessment of housing and services needs for a neighborhood. Fundamentals of land parceling, with application in real project. Movement network, roads hierarchy, and parking areas. Application of theoretical studies in a project dealing with urban, social, and economic surveys for an existing area. Analysis and diagnosis of alternative solutions to housing projects.
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 4, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • Nicole Gurran Glen Bramley URBAN PLANNING AND THE HOUSING MARKET International Perspectives for Policy and Practice This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature 2017
  • Hussein Dia Low Carbon Mobility for Future Cities Principles and application Springer 2017
  • Ronan Paddison Handbook of Urban Studies Sage Publication 2017
  • T David F. Clapham William A. V. Clark Kenneth Gibb the SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies SAGE Publications Ltd 2012