Introduction to Landscape Planning

Code:

ARQTP3001

Acronym:

ARQTP3001

Level:

300

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Environmental Sciences and Technology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L:CTA	46	Plano estudos a partir do ano letivo 2016/17	3	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

IOT aims to initiate students in the theoretical concepts of base and in the practice of territorial planning. Understand the state and major issues affecting natural resources. Identify and understand the policies that directly or indirectly are reflected in national and European territory.
Acquisition of basic skills in the scope of the interpretation of the main natural components and processes that take place over the territory in the perspective of elaborating syntheses and proposals in territorial planning.

Learning outcomes and competences

To initiate students in the basic theoretical concepts and in the spatial planning practice. Aquisition of processes and methodologies of analysis, interpretation and basis for territorial planning.

Working method

Presencial

Program

• What is territorial planning. Guiding principles. Methods and practices


• The Landscape Ecology discipline as a support for the territorial planning exercise. Origin and concepts

• The legal framework of territorial planning - the main instruments in Portugal


• Natural resources, their status and problems


• Policies and instruments with implications in national and European territory: from resources to landscape.

Mandatory literature

McHarg Ian L.; Design with nature
Ahern, Jack; The concept of ecosystem services in adaptive urban planning and desing: a framework for supporting innovation, 2014
Ahern, Jack; Greenways as Strategic Landscape Planning: theory and application, 2002
Greenway planning in the United States: its origins and recent case studies, ; Fabos, Julius, 2004
Fadigas, Leonel; Ordenamento do Território e da Paisagem, 2007
Ribeiro, Orlando; Portugal. O Mediterrâneo e o Atlântico, 1987
Marsh, William; Landscape Planning – Environmental Applications, 2010
Steiner, Frederick; The Living Landscape – An ecological approach to landscape planning, 2008
Termorshuizen, Jolande W. e Opdam, P.; Landscape services as a bridge between landscape ecology and sustainable development, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

Individual exercise (50%):

 

 

Practical exercise about interpretation of the main natural components of the territory: relief, hydrography, geology and soil. Meaning of biophysical units. Definition of the Ecological Structure. Delivery: Drawings and descriptive memory (3 pages Max)

 

 

Group project (50%):

 

 

Carrying out a Work in order to identify and understand the state and the main problems that affect the natural resources and the respective policies that directly or indirectly are reflected in the European and national territory. Presentation: 20/30 minutes. Delivery: At the beginning of the presentation, a copy of the power point to be presented -  Two slides per page. The dates of the presentations will be available in a document in Sigarra web page.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Minimum grade: 10 points in each exercise.

Presence in 75% of theoretical and theoretical-practical classes

Calculation formula of final grade

Writen work: 50%

Pratical work: 50%