UPD4001 · Planning project 1: Compact city

Overview

This project unit explores the complexities and implications of the intensification of cities across multiple scales and how to actively engage in their transformation. Through real world, place-based projects, this foundational studio helps you to develop research foundations, analytical and spatial methods in strategic planning and design.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate foundational knowledge of the fundamental principles and components of the strategic planning process for the intensification of cities, through an understanding of how a combination of factors like Indigenous ways of knowing, diversity, density, amenity and accessibility, can create inclusive, climate resilient and quality places;
2. Apply strategic and design thinking to address complex issues related to various scales of planning, demonstrating the ability to formulate place-based, equitable and sustainable processes into real-world scenarios;
3. Integrate and synthesise data for strategic planning purposes, demonstrating the capacity to analyse, interpret, spatialise and incorporate diverse sources of information into strategies and scenarios;
4. Engage in meaningful and empathetic interactions with team members and stakeholders, while conveying planning ideas through written, spatial, visual, design, graphic and verbal communication;
5. Develop an awareness of the ethical and local/global dimensions of the governance of cities such as how decision making impacts communities, stakeholders and ecologies;
6. Adapt to evolving urban challenges in the field of strategic planning by seeking new knowledge and approaches.

Workload

24 hours per week including 6 contact hours plus 18 hours of independent study, or equivalent.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.