Urbanistic Law

Code:

DO533

Acronym:

DURB

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2005/2006 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	23	Official Study Plan - LD	5	-	6	-

Objectives

Study of a discipline of special administrative Law

Program

CHAPTER I – INTRODUCTION
Definition and characterisation of Urbanistic Law
0. Preliminaries: Contextual return of Urban Law to the forma urbis. Land use planning and protection of the environment
1. Intelligibility of terms used: urbanisation and urbanism
2. Concept, aim and nature of Urbanistic Law
3. Distinction between Urbanistic Law and other kindred legal subjects. The matrix of the Land use Planning Law
4. Public Administratin of Urbanism: constitutional and organisational aspects
5. A brief outline of the history of the Urbanistic Law
6. Relevance of the European Urbanistic Law in forming domestic Urbanistic Law

CHAPTER II – GENERAL THEORY OF URBANISTIC PLANNING:
From the myth of planning to structural planning
0. Urbanistic planning between being and should-be. In search of another urbanistic paradigm: modest-situational planning
1. Functions of urbanistic plans
2. Types of urbanistic plans
3. Towards a just procedure for drawing up urbanistic plans
4. From the structuring legal principles of urbanistic plans to urbanistic and environmental standards
5. Legal nature of urbanistic plans
6. Contentiousness of urbanistic plans
7. Meaning and scope of strategic urbanistic-environmental planning
8. The evolution of urbanistic planning in Europe – Germany, Spain, France and Italy – and the United States.
CAPÍTULO III – LEGAL REGIME OF INSTRUMENTS FOR
Territorial management
0. Introductory considerations: from land use planning to urbanism and the environment
1. National Program for Land Use Planning Policy
2. Sectoral Plans
3. Regional Plans for Land Use Planning
4. Special Plans for Land Use Planning
5. Municipal Plans for Land Use Planning
6. Elaboration, execution and assessment of instruments for territorial management

CHAPTER IV – FROM THE DISCRETIONARY NATURE OF URBANISTIC PLANS
To uncertainty and formation of right to private ownership of land
1. Precision and limits of discretionary nature of urbanistic planning
2. Urbanistic planning and the principle of equality
3. Constitutional guarantee of right to private ownership of land
4. Meaning and scope of the principle of situational obligation of private ownership of land
5. From the imbalancing effects of the urbanistic plan regarding the right to own land to the need for compensatory measures
6. The urbanistic content of land ownership. The right to private ownership of land and the jus aedificandi: right and duty to build
7. the silence of the innocents on Urbanistic Law
8. The difficult relationship of the expansive vis of the urbanistic plan with legal rules on the utilisation of the land.

CHAPTER V – SYSTEMS AND INSTRUMENTS
FOR EXECUTING PLANS
1. Introductory considerations
2. Execution systems
3. Execution instruments
3.1. The right of preference
3.2. The re-division of urban land
3.3. The licensing for private building
3.4. The allocation and works of urbanisation
3.5. Expropriation for public utility

CHAPTER VI – URBAN REHABILITATION
Aesthetics and historic centres
1. Conceptual instability
2. Urbanistic Law. From the ethics of design to the beauty of form
3. Legal sensitivity of aesthetic judgments
4. Guardianship of historic centres

Main Bibliography

ALVES CORREIA, “A jurisprudência do Tribunal Constitucional sobre expropriações por utilidade pública e o Código das Expropriações de 1999”, in Rev. Leg. Jur., n.os 3904 a 3914, 1999/2000
ALVES CORREIA, Manual de Direito do Urbanismo, I, Coimbra, 2002
ANTÓNIO CORDEIRO, A Protecção de Terceiros em Face de Decisões Urbanísticas, Coimbra, 1995
CAUPERS, JOÃO, “Estado de Direito, ordenamento do território e direito de propriedade”, in Rev. Jur. Urb. Amb., n.º 3, 1995
COLAÇO ANTUNES, “Contributo para uma percepção jurídico-cultural do centro histórico”, in Rev. Jur. Urb. Amb., n.º 7, 1997
COLAÇO ANTUNES, Direito Urbanístico – Um Outro Paradigma: A Planificação Modesto-
-Situacional, Coimbra, 2002
FAUSTO DE QUADROS, “Direito das expropriações, direito do urbanismo e direito do ambiente: algumas questões fundamentais”, in Rev. Jur. Urb. Amb., n.º 4, 1996
FREITAS DO AMARAL (coord.), Direito do Urbanismo, I.N.A., Oeiras, 1989
FREITAS DO AMARAL, “Ordenamento do território, urbanismo e ambiente: objecto, autonomia e distinções”, in Rev. Jur. Urb. Amb., n.º 1, 1994
OSVALDO GOMES, Expropriações por Utilidade Pública, Lisboa, 1997
PAULA OLIVEIRA, F., As Medidas Preventivas dos Planos Municipais de Ordenamento do Território (Alguns aspectos do seu regime jurídico), Coimbra, 1998
PEREIRA DA COSTA, A., Direito dos Solos e da Construção, Braga, 2000

Complementary Bibliography

Serão ainda facultados aos alunos contributos determinantes da doutrina publicada em Revistas.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Written and final exam according to tules enforced in FDUP

Calculation formula of final grade

As otanied in Written and final exam according to tules enforced in FDUP

Examinations or Special Assignments

None

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Rules enforced in FDUP

Classification improvement

Written or final exam according to tules enforced in FDUP