Learning outcomes |
UNIT URBAN PLANNING 1. To dominate the general features of city planning in Portugal and in other European countries; 2. To understand the city planning proposals and to analyse the reasons in favour or against them; 3. To understand the main city planning instruments and their contents considering several scales: national instruments, regional instruments, interregional instruments, special instruments, sectorial instruments and municipal instruments; 4. To understand the types of land uses, and the meaning of urban areas comparing with rural spaces, especially regarding the building and urbanization processes; 5. To understand the instruments, techniques-tools and models of city planning, and the development projects and to know how to apply their rules, in the context of Architecture; 6. To prepare the students in order to understand the city planning features in a wide range of subjects related with city analysis at the European scale.
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Syllabus |
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY PLANNING Objectives, meanings and challenges. The role of Architecture in a multidisciplinary activity. 2. URBANIZATION PROCESS IN PORTUGAL Urban development projects: technical requirements 3. CITY PLANNING SYSTEM IN PORTUGAL City planning history’s landmarks. Spatial planning instruments: National and Regional scale plans, Special plans, Inter-municipal scale plans, Municipal scale plans. 4. TYPES OF LAND USES (ZONING) AND BUILDING RESTRICTIONS Land uses (Urban / Rural), Urban perimeter, Building and urbanization permissions. Land use restrictions: for agriculture and ecological purposes, for other purposes. Mechanisms of implementation of the City Planning instruments. Expropriations for public purposes: at Municipal plans, at Public infrastructures. 5. URBAN REHABILITATION AS A TASK OF CITY PLANNING Meanings, actions and instruments. Urban sprawl / Shrinking of urban perimeters. e-City approaches: ICT as a tool in city planning, Smart cities.
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Main Bibliography |
ADAMS, D.; TIESDELL, S.: Shaping Places, Urban Planning, Design and Development. Routledge, New York, 2013. MARSHALL, S.: Urban Coding and Planning. Routledge, New York, 2011. OLIVEIRA, Fernanda Paula: Novas Tendências do Direito do Urbanismo: de um Urbanismo de Expansão e de Segregação a um Urbanismo de Contenção, de Reabilitação Urbana e de Coesão Social. Almedina, Coimbra, 2011. PARDAL, Sidónio, Lobo, Manuel Costa, Correia, Paulo V.D.: Normas Urbanísticas, Volume IV: Planeamento Integrado do Território, Elementos de Teoria Crítica. UTL, DGOTDU, Lisboa, 2000. VIRTUDES, A.: “Urbanística Moderna em Portugal: Santarém, um caso exemplar”, Nota de Rodapé Edições, Lisboa / Paris, 2015. WLODARCZYK, Anna Marta (Editor / Redaktor): Traditional and New Public Spaces in Rural Areas / Tradycyjne I Nowe Przestrzenie Publiczne na Obszarach Wiejskich, Oficyna Wydawnicza Pwsz, Nysa, Poland, 2014.
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