Landscape Planning

Code:

AP4010

Acronym:

AP4010

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	24	Official Study Plan	1	-	9	70	243
M:EGEO	0	Official Study Plan	1	-	9	70	243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Consolidate the education in the practice of Landscape Planning (LP), emphasizing the supporting methodologies for LP and the guidelines for the distribution of the economic activities, towards sustainable development and green economies, entwined with the current status of the instruments for landscape management and planning (Portugal).

Contribute to the development of a critical attitude towards the implementation of landscape policies by a case study.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understand the challenges of today’s landscape and it’s planning, underlining the urban dynamics and its current socio-economic context, namely demographic growth, natural recourses and environmental risks. Strengthen the use of the methodology Analysis, Synthesis, Proposal.

Develop competencies in the use’ of geographic information systems applied to landscape planning, in the user’s perspective.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Knowledge in landscape analysis and interpretation, based on the study of the biophysical and socioeconomic variables of the territory.
Domain of sofwares: GIS, CAD, Photoshop, GoogleEarthPro.

Program

 

• The European Landscape Convention. Landscape quality objectives.

• LP and sustainable management of the landscape and the natural resources. From sustainable development to green economy. Planning and managing the landscape. LP as the spatial implementation of economical, social and environmental policies.

 

• The legal component of LP and current revisions. Historical evolution. Main current tools. Landscape planning in the framework of the European Union: spatial development policies.

 

• Municipal Master Plans for Landscape Planning. Town Masterplan. Environmental declaration. Assessment and monitoring. Administrative restrictions. The landscape in the Town Masterplans, National Policy Program for Landscape Planning and Regional Plan for Landscape Planning. Sectorial plans.

 

• The environmental impact assessment process. Principles, concepts and legal framework. Case studies.

 

• LP and adaptation to climate change. Landscape character, ecological principles and conservation of natural resources and cultural resources, supporting LP.

 

 

Mandatory literature

Alonso, S. G. ; Planificación del paisaje y política territorial. De los postulados a su aplicación en España. Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2010
Amado, M. P. ; Planeamento Urbano Sustentável, Caleidoscópio, 2009
Ascher, F.; Novos Princípios do Urbanismo seguido de Novos Compromissos Urbanos - um léxico, Livros Horizonte, 2010
Barcelona, I. d. E. R. i. M. d. ; Per afrontar la crisi: la metròpoli de Barcelona, Barcelona, IERMB, 2011
Berke, P. and E. J. Kaiser ; Urban land use planning, University of Illinois Press, 2006
Bourdin, A. ; O Urbanismo Depois da Crise, Livros Horizonte, 2011
Carvalho, J. ; Ordenar a cidade, Quarteto, 2003
Cebola, C. M. ; Direito do urbanismo e do ambiente: estudos compilados, Quid Juris, 2010
Choay, F; O Urbanismo Depois da Crise, Perspectiva, 1992
Correia, F Alves ; Direito do Ordenamento do Território e do Urbanismo, Livraria Almedina , 2010
Cunha, V. F. ; Dicionário de Direito do Ambiente, Texto Editores, 2010
European Union ; Cities of Tomorrow. Challenges, visions, ways forward, 2011
Ferrão, J. ; O ordenamento do território como política pública, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011
Frade, C. ; A componente ambiental no ordenamento do território, Conselho Económico e Social, 1999
Lambin, E. F. and H. Geist ; ). Land-use and land-cover change : local processes and global impacts, Springer, 2006
Lourenço, J. M. ; Expansão Urbana: Gestão de Planos-Processo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003
Matos, J. L. ; Fundamentos de informação geográfica, Lidel, 2001
Mattoso, J., Daveau, S. Belo, D. ; Portugal. O sabor da Terra. Um retrato histórico e geográfico por regiões, Círculo de Leitores
Oliveira, V. ; Avaliação em planeamento urbano, U.PORTO EDITORIAL, 2011
Portas, N. ; Políticas Urbanas I e II: transformações, regulação e projectos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011
Sá Marques, T. ; Dinâmicas territoriais: Portugal na transição do século (XX/XXI)., Edições Afrontamento, 2004
Salgueiro, T. ; Paisagem e geografia, in FINISTERRRA – Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, Vol XXXVI, nº 72, Lisboa, pp.37-53., 2001
Saraiva, M. da Graça ; O rio como paisagem: Gestão de corredores fluviais no quadro do ordenamento do território, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1999
Selman, P. ; Sustainable Landscape Planning. The Reconnection Agenda, Earthscan
Steiner, F. ; The Living Landscape. An ecological approach to landscape planning, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1999
Steiner, F. R. ; Human ecology: following nature's lead, Island Press, 2002
Steinitz, C. ; A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design, Esri Press
Telles, G. Ribeiro, ; A paisagem do futuro e o ordenamento do território, in Pensar o Ordenamento Territorial: Ideias, Planos, Estratégias, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, p. 86. , 2000
Thompson, G. e Steiner, F. (eds), ; Ecological Design and Planning, John Wiley & Sons, 1999
Conselho da Europa; Convenção Europeia da Paisagem, 2000
Gonçalves, Carla; Convenção Europeia da Paisagem e a revisão do Plano Diretor Municipal, 2013
Gonçalves, Carla; Silva, Paulo; Planning green infrastructure from a landscape perspective, Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith, Sarah Burgess, 2015. ISBN: 9781783473991
Gonçalves, Carla; Curado, Maria José; AS POLÍTICAS DA PAISAGEM DEPOIS DA CONVENÇÃO EUROPEIA DA PAISAGEM, 2016
Gonçalves, Carla; Convenção Europeia da Paisagem e a revisão do Plano Diretor Municipal, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013
Gonçalves, Carla e Silva, Paulo; Planning green infrastructure from a landscape perspective, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2016. ISBN: 978 1 78347 400 4

Teaching methods and learning activities

 

• The teaching method in LP 2, consists in the education towards the practice of Landscape Planning improving the theoretical bases and the development of a case study, through the proposal of landscape planning strategies.

 

• This exercise is supported by: the landscape planning and urbanism policies; the landscape management instruments, emphasizing in the Town Masterplan scale.

• The exercices focus on the European Landscape Convention implementation, defining landscape quality objectives for a green infrastructure proposal.

 

Software

ESRI ArcGIS 10

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	80,00
Teste	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	9,00
Elaboração de projeto	80,00
Estudo autónomo	50,00
Frequência das aulas	70,00
Trabalho de campo	0,00
Trabalho de investigação	34,00
Trabalho escrito	0,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

1. Students must attend 75% of the practical lessons;

2. Complete all evaluation components;

3. Attend at the fieldtrip;

4. There will be a minimum grade of 10 at each evaluation component.

5. The evaluation is distributed without final exam and contemplates the following moments: 

Phase 1 European Landscape Convention and landscape study methodologies: the portuguese case and the english or catalan. Work group.

Objectives

1. Understand the portuguese Territorial Planning System – focus on municipal spatial plans.
2. Explain what the European Landscape Convention is.
3. Comparative analysis of two landscape studies methodologies. Two case studies: Portugal and / or England or Catalonia.

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Phase 2 Landscape study and intervention proposals 

Step 1. Study of the landscape of an area of intervention. Group work.

 Objectives

1. Spatial and strategic plans analyses.
2. Analysis and evolution of the landscape under study.
3. National ecological and agricultural reserve.
4. Landscape units. Coastal landscape.
5. Landscape quality objectives definition.

 

Step 2 Protection, management and spatial measures proposal. Work group.

Step 1. Study of the landscape of an area of intervention. Group work.

 Objectives:

1. Protection, management and spatial measures proposal to achieve the landscape quality objectives. 
2. Green infrastructure proposal. Focus on coastal landscape.

 

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Phase 3 Exam 

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The dates of the presentations and the elements to be delivered for each phase will be available in the General Folder of the UC page, with the designation "Program", from the first theoretical lecture.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

Phase 1 - 15%

Phase 2 - 65% (the work will have two steps - in each step a qualitative evaluation will be made in five levels - A, B, C, D, E).

Phase 3 - 20%

The final evaluation will be quantitative with the scale of 0 to 20 values. In phases 1 and 2, carried out in groups, the individual performance of each student will be taken into account for the final evaluation, given the dynamics in the respective group.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the current regulations.

Classification improvement

There will be no grade improvement of the evaluation components