Course ID: | PLAN 4420/6420. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Urban Design |
Course Description: | An introduction to the city as a physical form, how they are designed and developed. The course will provide students with an understanding of the urban design history, practices, theories, and the future of urban environments based on field observation, lectures, readings, and presentations. |
Oasis Title: | Urban Design |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Skills:
This course will build fundamental urban design skills to observe, document, analyze, and to develop an understanding of the built environment, including methods of recording, various representation, and communication techniques.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of theories and design responses to the needs of cities and understanding of spatial meaning and quality of urban spaces.
Understand the interaction between urban patterns, nature, and built environment.
Stakeholder Identification and Analysis, “Third Place” conceptualization, Community Policing, Immigration and Community, Community Health, Community and Monuments, Oral History and Community.
Learn qualitative methods on how to analyze “informal spaces” and their role in fostering and sustaining community.
Learn qualitative methods to analyze insider/outsider relationships in community formation management.
Learn about community and civic society formation and governance through theoretical and case study analysis.
Synthesize these broad social, economic, and environmental understandings of community into projective planning/design practice and policy.
Values:
An appreciation for the contribution of urban patterns and forms to the identity of community and social justice.
Learn qualitative methods on how to analyze “informal spaces” and their role in fostering and sustaining community.
Learn qualitative methods to analyze insider/outsider relationships in community formation management.
Learn about community and civic society formation and governance through theoretical and case study analysis.
Synthesize these broad social, economic, and environmental understandings of community into projective planning/design practice and policy. |
Topical Outline: | This course is organized as a seminar/workshop supplemented by lectures and presentations. Students are expected to complete readings, design assignments, take field trips, and make presentations.
The main components of the course are as follows:
Lectures, Readings, and Class Discussion
Introduction to Urban Design
Evolution of Urban Form and Pattern
Urban Design Theories
Understanding the Urban Design Processes
Urban Form and Social Justice
Pandemics and Future of Urban Design
Procedural Issues in Attaining a Functional Environment
Synthesis
The Future of Urban Design
Graphic exercises to develop visual literacy and representation skills; field exercises, including spatial documentations and observing social behavior in public places; photographic journals and thematic mappings; demonstrating findings in multimedia presentations. |
Honor Code Reference: | "I will be academically honest in all of my academic work and
will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others."
As a University of Georgia student, you have agreed to abide by
the University's academic honesty policy, "A Culture of
Honesty," and the Student Honor Code.
Students are responsible for reading and complying with these
standards before performing any academic work. Academic honesty
means performing all academic work without plagiarism,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, giving or receiving
unauthorized assistance from any other person, or using any
source of information that is not common knowledge without
properly acknowledging the source.
The link to detailed information about the University's
academic honesty policy can be found at:
http://www.uga.edu/honesty/ Questions related to course
assignments and the academic honesty policy should be directed
to the professor. |