Urban Infrastructures and Systems

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical lectures, with audiovisual tools, relating urban infrastructures and systems. Students are also required to develop, in group work and with limited tutorial support, a project.

Talks proffered by invited entities or individuals on topics related to urban infrastructures and systems.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with a set of technical knowledge that shows the complex and multidimensional structure of cities. Above all, it seeks to identify the occupation of public space by the different infrastructures and urban systems that support the functioning of urban life without attempting to project them. Specifically, they should gain competencies enabling them to participate in any process occupying the public domain (soil, subsoil and air space).

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.The complex and multi-dimensionality of smart and sustainable cities’ supporting systems

4.Urban infrastructure/utilities and systems support urban life (features, components, requirements and characteristics, laws and regulations, stakeholders and statutes, potential performance indicators and main externalities).

a.Transports;

b.Urban logistics;

c.Water supply and  wastewater and rainwater drainage;

d.Municipal Solid Waste;

e.Power generation and distribution;

f.Information and communication systems;

g.Green spaces and corridors;

h.Public facilities;

5.Efficient and integrated management and organization of systems in the public space.

a.Domains (soil, subsoil and air space);

b.The channel spacing concept;

c.Spatial segregation or share space ;

d.New paradigms. Innovative solutions and challenges.

e.The role of local authorities in the licensing and integrated management of public spaces.

f.Examples.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 20.0%
Project: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

[1] Global Designing Cities Initiative (2016). Global Street Design Guide. Global Designing Cities Initiative. NACTO. ISLANDPRESS.

[2] United Nations (2013). Planning and design for sustainable urban mobility - global report on human settlements. Earthscan from Routledge.

[3] IMT (2019). Logística Urbana – Guião Orientador. Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I.P. (IMT, I.P.)

[4] ISO/TS 37151 - Smart community infrastructures — Principles and requirements for performance metric.