Urbanism, Territoriality and Public Space
1
2023-2024
02637440
Sociology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
7.5
Elective
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Any unit of the 1st semestre of the 1st Cycle Studies with particular relevance to City and citizenship: contemporary visions
Historical and theoretical knowledge of territorial organization and urbanization
Skills in critical analysis, synthesis, organization and programming.
Teaching Methods
The course presents Theoretical classes and theoretical-practical classes.
Theoretical classes take place mainly in an expository form, addressing the topics provided in the syllabus. Some classes integrate lectures by researchers and invited professionals associated with planning and urban management.
Theoretical-practical classes consist on the discussion of the topics broached in theoretical classes and in the development of a practical exercise for assessment with presentation and group discussion.
Learning Outcomes
Provide knowledge that enable students to recognize the role and the importance of urban management and urban design in shaping the cities over time.
Provide technical and historical knowledge that enable students to understand the mutual relations between the urban cities and the people who think its future, as well as those that use them.
Promote the construction of critical assessments of the relationship between socioeconomic and legal-administrative systems that underline urban management and their results on the dynamics of urban development.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. What do we talk about when we talk about cities? Town, urban, urban planning, urbanization, urban management
2. Land use management in the construction of the Portuguese territory: Middle and Moderna Ages
3. Nineteenth century: the urban and territorial transformations. Urban planning, policies and technical staff
4. Theories and practices of contemporary urbanism since Haussmann to Campos Venuti
5. City, architecture, "progressive faith", "cultural comfort" and lifeworld
6. The importance of urban green spaces for heath
7. Sociological intervention and the sociologist in social intervention
8. Policies, strategies and tactics of urban regeneration.
Head Lecturer(s)
Adelino Manuel dos Santos Gonçalves
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 10.0%
Research work: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 70.0%
Bibliography
CASTELLS, Manuel (2004) — "Un mundo urbanizado sin ciudades?" La Vanguardia, Barcelona, 2005/05/09, pp. 28-9
CHOAY, Françoise (1992) — A Alegoria do Património. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2000
CHOAY, Françoise (1965) — O Urbanismo: utopias e realidades. Uma antologia. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2005.
JACOBS, Jane (1961) — The death and life of great American cities, New York: Vintage Books
LYNCH, Kevin (1960) — The Image of the City, Cambridge, London: The M.I.T Press
ROSSA, Walter (2007) — “Fomos condenados à cidade. Tópicos de reflexão sobre um conceito em transição” in SANTANA, Ana (2007) — Planeamento urbano: avaliação do impacte na saúde, Coimbra: Almedina, pp. 15-22
ROSSA, Walter. (2002) — A Urbe e o Traço. Uma década de estudos sobre o urbanismo português, Coimbra: Almedina
WEBBER, Melvin M. (1968) — "The Post-City Age" Daedalus. Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4, Massachusetts: The M.I.T Press, pp. 1091-110