Urban Design

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

1 - The course is organized around lectures and analyses of "paradigmatic cases".

2 - Methods and tools for education provided by FEUP (CICA) - audiovisual technologies for new models of teaching online support (e-learning, SIGARRA, etc..), including:

a) Set of open source software (eg Ubuntu FEUP Edition v2010/2011);

b) a set of applications from various operating systems - Linux, Mac or Windows (eg service APPS);

c) Support services to classes - computer rooms (eg GESROOM).

Learning Outcomes

Provide the students a thorough understanding of the urban morphology and the plural role of urban project and urban design, as well as starting the approach to bioclimatic urban design.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - Urban morphology and urban design - ideas and concepts.

2 - The City as part of 'nature', 'collage' versus 'weaving'.

3 - The Urban Public Space

3.1 - Public Spaces: morphological evolution and functional.

The importance of the role of public space in the competitive city and the highlight of the design and draft

strategies for the city (PMOT's, urban projects, land development, urban infrastructure, etc.)..

3.2. - Major parameters for qualification of urban public space.

3.3 - Qualification criteria of public space, methods of evaluation.

4 - The urban design. The urban project. The dimensions of urban design and the plurality of its performance.

5 - Design Criteria for multimodality and intermodality

6 - The sustainable urban design

6.1 - Conceptual models, development of analytical methods and impressionistic design.

6.2 - Bioclimatic urban design.

7 - Conclusion.

Head Lecturer(s)

António José Pais Antunes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

AMAR, Georges - Mobilités Urbaines – éloge de la diversité et devoir d’invention. Editions de l’Aube, 2004

BABO, António Pérez - A reforma dos espaços-canal. 20 ANOS 20 TEMAS 1985-2005. APEA, Lisboa, 2005

BRANDÃO ALVES, F. - Avaliação da Qualidade do Espaço Público Urbano – Proposta Metodológica. Lisboa: FCT / F. Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003

GOSLING, David & MAITLAND, Barry - Concepts of Urban Design. London: Academy Editions, 1984

HANDLEY, J. and J. Carter, Adaptation stratagies for the climate change in the urban environment ASCCUE report to the National Steering Group. 2006, Centre for urban & regional ecology School of Environment and Development University of Manchester: Manchester

KOSTOF, Spiro - The City Shaped - Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1991

Nikolopoulou, M., ed. Designing Open Spaces in the Urban Environment: A Bioclimatic Approach. RUROS: Rediscovering the Urban Realm and Open Spaces. 2004, CRES: Greece.