Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

The methodology followed in this course is oriented towards achievement of the learning objectives. A wide range of teaching and learning tasks are implemented, such as lectures where the teacher explains the retrofit and urban regeneration legal framework, tutorials and guided assignments where students develop a coordinated project with the courses Integrated Urban and Landscape Projects, Urbanization Projects and City as Cultural Landscape.

5.2. Learning tasks

The course includes the following learning tasks:

• Lectures. 8 sessions (1 hour per week).
• Guided assignments. 1 hour per week. Application of the lecture contents. There are two submission dates scheduled by the Master's coordination.
• Assessment. Exam. 

5.3. Syllabus

The course will address the following topics:

1. Retrofit, Regeneration and Urban Renewal legal framework in the National and Regional Policy.
2. Precedents: Interior reform.  Property and urban-planning use dematerialize. Transfer of urban-planning use, economic re-parcelling, expropriation with payments in urban-planning use, urban-planning use increase and other instruments.
3. Territorial scale. Urban regeneration programs. From neighbourhoods plan to urban regeneration in planning.
4. Planning scale. Inner city planning. Territorial model, develop and urban regeneration. Relaxation of demands and another urban reserve.
5. Built environment scale. Duty of preservation and ruin.
6. Citizen scale. Right to the city, right to the dwelling and horizontal property.
7. Urban transformation operations. Built environment operations and urban regeneration (object, initiative, area, execution, viability, cooperation and coordination). Provision performance legal framework.
8. Public policy: dwelling, retrofit and urban regeneration.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

Further information concerning the timetable, classroom, office hours, assessment dates and other details regarding this course, will be provided on the first day of class or please refer to the EINA website.