Urbanistics

Recommended Prerequisites

Course 1st cicle.

Teaching Methods

The contact time is of 2h of lectures per week followed by 2 other practical. In the first teaching is processed through expository sessions, in which will be used audiovisual resources.A small part of the content will be taught by groups of students whose preparation will be monitored by the teacher. On practical classes we will discuss the topics covered in the previous lecture in order to lead to the writing of a report limited in size to an A4 page

In all classes will be given minimum reading suggestions permitting better monitoring of matters to be addressed in the following one.

Learning Outcomes

Maturation of a personalized reading on the subject of extensive culture of the territory.

Development of dynamic interdisciplinary work within the Urbanism and Territorial Planning.

Domain medium balls, rules and limits on the exercise of activities of Urbanism and Territorial Planning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

What is a city?

City, power and civilization

Urban network and territory

Representation, survey, decoding

Urbs, urban, urbanism, urbanization, urbanistic

Urban morphology; the concepts of organic and additive

Urban morphology: the concepts of ruled, regular and orthogonal. The urban fabric

The concepts of utopia and ideal city. “Rational” in urbanistics

Urban and city design. Urban systems and morphology. The matrix and the genome

Equipment and infrastructures: the urban program

Architecture and Culture of Territory. Public and private

Urbanistic heritage and urban ecology.

Head Lecturer(s)

Walter Rossa Ferreira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 80.0%

Bibliography

BACON,Edmund N.(1967),Design of cities.New York:Penguin.1976
CHOAY,Françoise(1980),La règle et le modèle.Sur la théorie de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme.Paris:Seuil.1980
CORBOZ,André (2001),Le Territoire comme palimpseste et autres essais. Paris: L'Imprimeur. 2001
JACOBS,Jane(1961),The Death and Life of Great American Cities.The failure of Town Planning. Middlesex:Pelican.1977
KOSTOF,Spiro(1991),The city shaped, urban patterns and meanings through history.London:Thames and Hudson.1991
KOSTOF Spiro(1992),The city assembled,the elements of urban form through history.London:Thames and Hudson.1991
LYNCH,Kevin(1960),A imagem da cidade.Porto:Edições 70.1982
ROSSA,Walter(2007),Fomos condenados à cidade…Planeamento urbano:avaliação do impacte na saúde. Coimbra:coord.Paula Santana.2007:15-22
RYKWERT,Joseph(1976),The Idea of a Town.Cambridge/London:MIT Press.1988
The city reader.London:ed.Richard T.Le Gates e Frederic Stout,Routledge.2000