
MSc Urban Design and International Planning / Course details
Year of entry: 2023
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Course unit details:
Urban Design and International Planning Study Tour
Unit code | PLAN60882 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Offered by | Planning and Environmental Management |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
The course unit will have the following content:
- Urban Design and Heritage Conservation [An International Perspective]
- Introduction to Planning Frameworks within selected Fieldtrip destination city
- Briefing on fieldtrip destination city across multiple key themes including
- Transport and mobility
- Planning systems and policies
- Open and green space
- The public realm and space
- Heritage
- Social equality
- Architecture
- Development history
- Develop a focused urban design assessment approach at multiple scales for study tour
- Undertake international Study tour
- Study tour visits to series of urban design and development projects across multiple scales
- Self-observation of urban design and development projects
Aims
The course unit aims to:
- Provide a framework for critical urban analysis within an international context
- Explore urban design responses within a non-UK planning structure, considering differences in development policies and planning frameworks
- Develop design analysis skills regarding culturally sensitive urban design responses and approaches
- Developing knowledge on heritage conservation within urban design and international planning
- To engage students in on-site urban analysis and observation techniques.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:
- Understand how different social and environmental challenges in unique spatial contexts are met by developing urban design and planning policies
- Understand principles and practice of urban design, development, and heritage conservation within an international context
- Use urban design analysis techniques and skills to explore appropriate culturally sensitive design responses in urban environments
- Have ability to test and analyse different design projects within different contexts and multiple scales to understand best practice approaches and quality assessment
- Carry out a full urban design and planning assessment across multiple scales and themes in an international and heritage focused city
- Continue development in working with professionals in practice and group design work/analysis/presentation
Teaching and learning methods
The course unit will utilise a variety of pedagogical approaches including:
- Group assignment component(s) – including presentation and graphical report
- Regular tutorial teaching
- Regular studio workshops
- Studio crit (with formative feedback)
- The online urban design toolkit
- Week long study tour to international destination
- Local practitioner and academic led visits and presentations of urban design and development projects in destination city
- Self-observation of urban design and development projects in destination city
- End of semester assignment workshop/surgery
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Report | 80% |
Oral assessment/presentation | 20% |
Recommended reading
Bandarin, F. and van Oers, R. (2014) Reconnecting the City, Wiley Online Library
Cohan, N. (2001) Urban planning conservation and preservation, New York, McGraw-Hill Tweed Sutherland, M. (2007) Built cultural heritage and sustainable development, Landscape and Urban Planning 83: 62-69
Kostoff, S. (2014) The City Shaped, London, Thames and Hudson
Meeda et al (2009) Graphics for Urban Design. UDG
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Fieldwork | 30 |
Lectures | 12 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 108 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Razieh Zandieh | Unit coordinator |