Academic Year/course:
2023/24
470 - Bachelor's Degree in Architecture Studies
30721 - Urbanism 2
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
30721 - Urbanism 2
Faculty / School:
110 - Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Degree:
470 - Bachelor's Degree in Architecture Studies
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
1. General Information
The Urban Planning 2 course is conceived as an area of reflection and practice in the field of urban projects. The objective of the subject is the acquisition of knowledge related to the theories, methods and fundamental techniques for the development of urban projects. The aim is to develop skills such as: recognizing the theories and methods of urban planning intervention, identifying problems and potentialities of urban planning, understanding complexurban situations , using and integrating various techniques of analysis and urban planning.
To take this subject it is recommended to have passed Urban Planning 1.
This approach is aligned with some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to the extent that urban design and planning is responsible for the creation and transformation of more sustainable urban environments, the commitment to the circular economy, the reduction of spatial inequality and local economic development.
2. Learning results
- Ability to approach urban planning with a broad perspective, which means understanding the essential vocabulary of urban planning.
- Understanding of the disciplinary complexity and relevance of urban interventions in different spatial and temporal contexts.
- Acquisition of knowledge of urban analysis and the identification of the essential characteristics of urban planning elements.
- Ability to identify, formulate and solve elementary problems of urban planning in a multidisciplinary context, individually or as a member of a team, through a design intervention.
- Ability to generate argued responses to the challenges of urban planning. Articulate these responses through coherent and integrative strategies.
- Evaluate particular forms of urban intervention and assess what can be learned from past experiences.
Appreciate the importance of urban design.
- Ability to integrate urban design and building design.
- Aptitude for the conception, practice and development of urban projects.
- Ability to develop functional programs for buildings and urban spaces.
- Ability to draft civil works projects.
- Ability to design and execute urban layouts and urbanization, gardening and landscape projects.
- Adequate knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural types.
3. Syllabus
1. Introduction to Urban Planning 2. Urban projects.
A. Spaces to live in. Urban project and housing.
2. Housing and urban forms in the 20th century: Precedents and developments of the Modern Movement.
3. Crisis of the modern movement. New extensions and eco-neighborhoods
4. New residential landscapes
B. Spaces for work. Urban project, activities, productive spaces
5. The space of factories, offices and tertiary spaces in the modern tradition.
Evolution of tertiary uses. From CBDs to technology districts.
7. New productive and tertiary landscapes.
C. Spaces for leisure. Urban project, open spaces, facilities
8. Systems of open spaces and facilities in the modern tradition.
9. Evolution of cultural facilities and paradigms.
10. New cultural landscapes and open spaces
D. Circulation spaces. Urban project, road system, infrastructure
11. Transportation infrastructure and urban form in the modern tradition.
12. Integrative urban projects. Road system and public space.
13. New infrastructures and circulation landscapes.
4. Academic activities
Lectures: 22 hours
Theory sessions in which the contents of the subject will be explained.
Laboratory practices: 30 hours
Workshop sessions on urban analysis and planning.
Special practices: 8 hours
Study trip of the degree, of a voluntary nature and on dates to be determined depending on the calendar of exams.
Complementary activities: 24 hours
Voluntary complementary activities such as the organization of the study trip, travel guide, articles in the Urban Planning blog, etc.
Teaching assignments, study of the subject, practical activities: 60 hours
Assessment tests. 6 hours
5. Assessment system
The subject will be evaluated in the global assessment mode through the evaluation of the following blocks:
Block 1. Theory (30% of the grade). There will be a partial intermediate test (voluntary, of the first part of the subject) and a final exam (complete for those who have failed or have not presented the partial control, and of the second part of the subject for the rest). Both tests will deal with the topics developed in the theoretical sessions, assessing the knowledge of concepts, theories and urban projects, the expository capacity, critical thinking and relationalskills.
Block 2. Critical commentary exercise (5% of the grade). A session will be held for the elaboration of a critical commentary of selected texts or urban articles. An orderly and clear exposition of the content of the comments will be valued, indicating whether the contributions are personal or refer to another author.
Block 3. Workshop (65% of the grade). Two workshop exercises will be carried out in teams. The first exercise consists of the intentional analysis and diagnosis, incorporating a preview of the urban proposal. The second exercise will develop a urban proposal on the scope of action. It will contain the formal definition of the project, with special emphasis on the detailed designof the public space.
Each of the exercises must obtain a minimum grade of 4 and each block an average score of 5 to pass the subject. The grade obtained in each block in the first call is kept for the second call of the course, as long as it has been obtained within the same enrollment of the subject.
Complementary activities. The participation in other related activities such as writing articles in the blog of the subject or the elaboration of travel guides or notebooks, and provided that the student has passed the subject, may give place to raise the final grade obtained up to 10%. In order to be evaluated, those complementary activities related to the trip must always be completed before the trip takes place.