COMPETENCIES -To analyze complex situations and to design their corresponding solving strategies -To communicate verbally -To design creative proposals -To plan and organize projects and proposals -To propose new initiatives in the planning of a project and its development -To use English as students’ internationalization tool and for their future professional activity. OTHER COMPETENCIES -Ability to apply planning rules and normatives -Applied knowledge of regional and metropolitan planning methodological fundaments -Appropriate level of knowledge for planning and architecture cartography, land intervention techniques and land measurement methods -Practical knowledge on occidental planning tradition as well as their technical, economical, social and ideological fundamentals.
1. CONTENT The first steps of what will be the topic of the project will be done in parallel with the study of what has been European Regional Planning during the last centennial, of high importance for today’s spatial planning understanding. The trip through spatial planning will end up with relevant snapshots of the latest trends and formula in planning –often controversial- at international level, New Urbanism, Fractal Cities, Urban Ruralism, etc. In Catalonia, although its short and poor tradition in spatial planning, a number of plans exist and, together with their rules, define the legal framework where territorial projects must be conceived. Course faculty will deliver all lessons in English. Students will be requested to prepare a locational, programmatic, and functional project for a territorial artifact such as a transport infrastructure, a technical service, a facility or a service installation. Students will explain and defend their proposals in English as well as prepare them. Most of course related authors and course theoretical framework are in English. The use of the English language throughout the course guarantees preservation of sources original language as well as message integrity. Moreover, the use of English will allow students to learn urban and spatial planning specific vocabulary and to put it into practice in course’s working environment.
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ASSESMENT ACTIVITIES: -Practical Exercises: 20% out of the total (tasks corresponding to ‘artifact’s selection of location) -Presentations: 10% out of the total -Course’s Project: 70% out of the total (in correspondence with ‘artifact resolution’) Note: All pieces of assessment (practical work, presentation and project) consider an in-class participation at proportion of 10% of their individual weight. ASSESMENT CRITERIA Assessment is continuous -Theoretical Sessions: it is required a 80% of class attendance in order to be assessed -Practical Sessions: it is required to participate and deliver a minimum of 80% of the practical tasks in order to be assessed. Deliverables after due date will negatively affect the assessment. -Presentations: Concise, clear and organized presentations are highly encouraged. To use rich, appropriate and specific English words of the Urban and Spatial planning will be positively considered. For that purpose it will be needed to dully work with the in-class proposed sources. -In-class participation: It is very important that students have an active attitude, specially during practical sessions and after presentations. -Course project: Although it will be explained along course development, and for each specific working phase, in general, adaptative skills to project’s constraints will be important due to project’s complexity and high component of reality. Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR ‘NON-DELIVERED’ TASKS Students that in first assessment call obtain an ‘non-delivered’ or ‘failed’ mark in any of course tasks, when presenting in a second call, such reworked tasks will get a maximal mark of ‘passed’ (=5).
OBSERVATIONS The territorial project is course’s main task and goal. Theoretical lessons will be in heterogeneous dissolution amongst course practical sessions and depending on each session specific topic and purpose. Theoretical Sessions weight is 25% out of overall course teaching hours. Distribution of activities (100% teaching hours): Theoretical Sessions: 25% Practical and Corrective Sessions: 65% Students’ presentations: 10% Bibliography here detailed corresponds to the basic one. Specific bibliography (an important number of scientific papers indexed in peer-reviewed international journals) will be provided during the course thus special permissions are needed for access to such sources.