Urban Development

Code:

MPPAU1113

Acronym:

DU

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Spatial Planning, Transport Infrastructures and Environment Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Environment Planning and Urban Project

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EPPAU	3	Oficial2004	1	2	6	-
MPPAU	15	MPPAU99	1	2	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Program

1. Urban development: introduction to the problem
- general aspects: recent trends and the paradoxes of urban development
- the big questions: urban competitiveness, cohesion and governance

2. Urban development: changing contexts
-The global transformations and the city: the debates about the global cities and the ‘new’ spatiality
-Innovation and urban competitiveness: urban territories and innovation within the context of the ‘knowledge economies’, the implications on urban policies
- Urban development between competitiveness and cohesion: competitive capacities and social and spatial fractures in urban territories; the role of urban governance.

3. Some dimensions and spatial forms of urban transformation processes
3.1 From metropolization to the urban region: the difficulty of conceptualization of the urban
3.2 The European dimension of the urban development: trends and challenges of competitiveness and cohesion
3.3 The Urban Portugal: trends and challenges of competitiveness and cohesion
3.4 Real Estate Markets and urban transformation
3.5 Local housing structures and urban transformation
3.6 Spatial fragmentation and urban transformation

4. Urban governance and development
- urban development, institutions and ways of local governance: the debate about the weakening of the role of the Estate and the mobilization capacity of different urban actors; implications to the city planning.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam