Landscape Planning and Management

Code:

AP4016

Acronym:

AP4016

Level:

400

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Landscape Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:AP	36	Official Study Plan	2	-	9	70	243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

 

A fieldtrip, a set of thematic open classes, by various experts, and a workshop, integrate both subjects allowing the discussion of general and common aspects as well as very specific issues related to landscape management and qualification.

The ultimate goal, the development of proposals for enhancing the landscape, will be achieved by working at various scales – from the identification of planning and management measures to the design of detailed project solutions – that mutually influence each other, implying reassessments, revisions and permanent improvements. Moreover, the joint organization of these courses - concerning objectives, methods and evaluation - will show the complementarity and interdependence between planning, management and design, gathering these three levels of approach.

It is also intended with this course to give continuity to studies initiated in former courses on public space, with special emphasis on developing specific proposals for the urban structures of old settlements and for landscape qualification of areas connected to the site.

 

Specifically regarding landscape management, it’s intended to consolidate concepts of spatial planning, ecology and landscape quality, enhancing the knowledge acquired in all the remaining units.

Learning outcomes and competences

Acquiring skills in matters related to landscape management, particularly in a landscape unit with a morphology and complex occupation.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Landscape management tools. Their nature, organization and function in the landscape planning process. The importance of studying, planning and designing for a landscape unit with its own identity.

 

Review of documents and (international and national) policy framework such as the Landscape, the Biological Diversity and Sustainable Development European Conventions. The Portuguese spatial planning instruments, particularly those provided by the Spatial Planning and Urbanism Law. Planning, management and evaluation of the landscape. The importance of identifying and defining the landscape character.

 

Mandatory literature

The Landscape Institute with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment; Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, Spon Press, 2002
Lucas Oliver W. R.; The design of forest landscape. ISBN: 0-19-854280-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Field trip/field work. Lectures with a group of invited experts. Practical classes to execute project work, its presentation, discussion and defense. 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	103,00
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Trabalho de investigação	100,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance of, at least, 75% of the classes. Participation in the field trip and workshop. Execution and presentation of the project work.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

Project work - 100%