Town Planning 3 (Structure plans – municipality scale)
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Undergraduate Programme
| The course focuses on fostering specific theoretical and applied knowledge, skills and abilities.
Specific knowledge and skills regarding planning and control on a broad, strategic, or structural town planning scale, indeed verging on the extreme end of small regional scale, dealing not just with the urban space proper but, in a typical case, the entire territory of a municipality. Students acquire new theoretical and applied knowledge regarding territorial and urban policies, and planning methods and tools. They also enhance knowledge and skills they already possess, as result of applying and testing them in the specific context structural planning. |
They also acquire knowledge specific to town planning, like the methodological tools and the institutional / legal framework regulating town-planning proper, as well as the knowledge necessary to critically assess the impact that other policies, plans and projects have on town planning.
| Students are encouraged to develop and perform critical, inquiring and deductive thinking.
To work in a group tackling interdisciplinary issues. To analyze data and evaluate situations, and to do that in a context-sensitive way. To conduct SWOT analysis and develop scenarios. Design alternative proposals. Evaluate alternative scenarios and proposals. Prepare the proposals within institutional / legal framework regulating spatial planning. Act with ethical and moral sensibility regarding the social and environmental dimensions of planning practice. |