3502231: Urban Quality: Assessment and Design 2

Description

This subject focuses on urban observation and representation, methods of urban design control and concept development and approaches to inquiry by design and into design. Assuming basic design skills it seeks to provide a conceptual and personal framework for enhancing these abilities, and mak-ing them more sensitive and relevant to urban settings and public environments. A stand-alone sub-ject, it will also accompany the UrbanSCAPE studio as reflective support, and skill building setting.

Lecture Goals

The course aims at providing a good foundation in observation, analytic, communication graphic, and investigative skills, an appreciation of the importance of these skills and on approaches to foster, develop and advance them over time. Specifically it will seek to convey personal experience and ex-pertise in some nine dimensions of quality management, such as:

• Telling: how to express knowledge, beliefs and memory
• Sensing: how to feel, anticipate and innately understand
• Noting : how to observe, notice, map and remember
• Inquiring : how to postulate, test, discover and reflect
• Researching : how to conduct design investigations
• Imagining : how to exercise your imaginary powers
• de/briefing : how to communicate in the urban design process
• conceiving : how to conceptualise and invent creative solutions
• guiding : how to positively influence complex processes and their outcomes

Learning Outcomes

This hand-on course consist of instruction, in-class projects and challenges, assignments, discussions and presentations. Graphic tools will be required, from manual to photographic and computer-based. Besides the weekly tasks, there will be reading assigned to assist in skills development and comprehension. Grades will be given according to class attendance, participation and submissions.

Lectures Method

Lecture, seminar.

Admission Requirements

Admission requirements for the Master of Science in Architecture Degree-Program

Literature

Class Reader L:\AR\SS10\MASTER\02 SUBJECTS\UrbanSCAPE\Urban Quality Assessment and Design\Teaching Material\Peter Droege's Basic UrbanSCAPE Reader

• and literature as assigned

Materials

Congress on a New Urbanism (CNU.org)

Duany Plater-Zyberk SmartCode v9.0 http://www.smartcodecentral.com/

http://smartcodecentral.com/transect.html

http://www.dpz.com/transect.aspx

http://www.dpz.com

Sustainable urbanism

Foster, H. 1997. The Ozymandias Principles. University of British Columbia: Southdowne Press

Newman, P., T. Beatley and H. Boyer. 2008. Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Washington: Island Press.

Prasad, N. F. Ranghieri, and F. Shah. 2009.Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters. New York: World Bank.

Roaf, S., D. Crichton, and F. Nicol. 2005. Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change: A 21st Century Survival Guide. Oxford: Architectural Press.

Vale, L. J. and T. J. Campanella. 2005. The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster. London: Oxford University Press.

Walker, B. and D. Salt. 2006.Resilience thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington: Island Press.