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Urban Planning

Code 14644
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload PL(15H)/T(30H)/TP(15H)
Scientific area Planning and Urbanism
Entry requirements N/A
Learning outcomes 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 Civil Engineering;
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.
Syllabus 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY PLANNING
a. Objectives, meanings and challenges
b. The rule of CIVIL ENGINEER in a multidisciplinary activity
2. CITY PLANNING SYSTEM IN PORTUGAL
a. City planning history’s landmarks
b. Spatial planning instruments
i. National scale plans
ii. Regional scale plans
iii. Special plans: For sea shore territories, For protected nature areas, For reservoirs surrounding areas, For fluvial territories
iv. Inter-municipal scale plans
v. Municipal scale plans
1. Municipal Master Plan
2. Urban development plan
3. Detailed local plans: For urban rehabilitation, For heritage safeguard, For rural areas
3. TYPES OF LAND USES (ZONING) AND BUILDING RESTRICTIONS
4. URBAN REHABILITATION AS A TASK OF CITY PLANNING
a. Meanings, actions and instruments
b. Urban sprawl / Shrinking of urban perimeters
c. e-City approaches: ICT as a tool in city planning, Smart cities
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.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria Analysis of scientific papers (scopus/web of science indexed)
Analysis of case studies.

Assessment criteria:
Final mark: TP1 + TP2 + TP3
TP1: 0-6 points
TP2: 0-7 points
TP3: 0-7 points
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-10-16

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