Urban Design Theory
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ABEE3028 | Department of Architecture and Built Environment | 3 | 10 | Autumn China |
- Code
- ABEE3028
- School
- Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Autumn China
Summary
This optional module is an introduction to the current themes in urban design theory and practice. These issues will be introduced by tracing the evolution of urban design including how its historical evolution informs contemporary practice. New and emerging phenomena within the urban design discipline will also be analysed to set the contemporary agenda.
Target Students
Architecture Year 3 Students
Classes
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 12 weeks
Tutor led 20 hours; student directed 55 hours
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: 2500-word Illustrated Essay (individual submission)
Assessed by end of autumn semester
Educational Aims
This module aims to introduce and analyse contemporary urban design theories and practice including their evolution from historical practice to develop a critical understanding of the contemporary city. This will include an analysis of the visual, social, functional, perceptual and environmental dimensions of the practice of urban design.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will demonstrate an understanding of:
· The influences on the contemporary built environments, the design of cities, post and present societies and wider global issues
· The histories and theories of urban design
· The inter-relationship between people, buildings and the environment and an understanding of the need to relate buildings and spaces between them to human needs and scale
An ability to:
· Critically appraise and form considered judgements about the spatial, aesthetic, technical and social qualities of a design within the scope and scale of a wider environment
· Independently define and critically appraise their ideas in relation to a design and to the work of others
· Produce essays which are clear, analytical and logical covering a range of urban issues.
Conveners
- Dr Giaime Botti