Urban Environment and Transport Planning

Code:

L.EC024

Acronym:

AUT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Planning

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=4086
Responsible unit:	Spatial Planning, Transport Infrastructures and Environment Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
L.EC	104	Syllabus	3	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

JUSTIFICATION:
The practice of engineers requires the understanding and assessment of the main problems of the urban environment and transport. The civil engineer, while designer or technician with responsibilities in the planning and administration of the territory, must acquire knowledge in their training on how to intervene and build a more sustainable urban space.

OBJECTIVES:
Provide tools of description and interpretation of the current problems of the urban environment and transport and framing the key strategies, methodologies and instruments of action to resolve them. Reflect and design proposals for urban intervention. 

Learning outcomes and competences

SKILLS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Knowledge: Describe the major urban and environmental problems, their nature and ways of resolution.
Application: Apply methodologies to assess the functioning of urban spaces: the characterization phase, diagnosis and prediction.
Analysis: Evaluate and distinguish urban problems and needs for intervention. Develop capacities for analyzing and comparing different types of methodologies and performance in urban space. Discuss best strategies and intervention processes in urban areas.
Summary: Proposing criteria and explain the choice of leading to more sustainable solutions in urban areas.
Evaluation: Evaluate and criticize existing tools and methodologies, and develop recommendations for a more sustainable development.

Working method

Presencial

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

The previous knowledge gained in Curricular Units, such as Topography & Geographical Information Systems (1st year) and Territorial Planning (2nd year), will constitute an advantage for better performance in AUT.

Program

1 – Analysis of the evolution of urban dynamics and their relation with the main urban problems. Review of characteristics of cities: from the medieval city to the industrial city, metropolis, city region, global city. Example of the city of Porto.

2 – Study of the functioning of urban spaces

Characterization, diagnosis and planning urban spaces subjected to principles of urban sustainability.
Development of proposals for intervention in urban spaces.
Application to an area of the city of Porto.

Theme 1 – Community, Built Environment and Natural Environment
Theme 2 – Mobility and transports

3 - Political agenda in the definition of urban intenvertions. Strategic vision and sustainable development: integration of perspectives and objectives of intervention. The main contemporary paradigms.

Exploring innovative solutions & projects. Finding ways to contribute to more resilient and sustainable cities. 

 
DEMONSTRATION OF THE SYLLABUS COHERENCE WITH THE CURRICULAR UNIT'S OBJECTIVES:
Students apply the learned knowledge to an urban area (in the municipality of Porto) studied along the semester.

Mandatory literature

Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Richard Guise; Shaping neighbourhoods. ISBN: 0-415-26009-4
Matthew Carmona, ... [et al.]; Public Places - Urban Spaces. ISBN: 978-1-85617-827-3
of the Expert Group of the Urban Environment; European sustainable cities. ISBN: 92-827-8259-X
Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin; After Sustainable Cities?, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin, 2014. ISBN: 13: 978-0415659871
Ana Bastos Silva e Silvia Santos; Medidas de Acalmia de Tráfego, Inir
Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte; Manual de Planeamento das Acessibilidades e da Gestão Viária, 2008
Peter Hall; Urban and regional planning. ISBN: 0-14-021725-8
Chris Couch; Urban planning. ISBN: 978-1-137-42756-4

Complementary Bibliography

ed. by David Banister, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp; Environment, land use and urban policy. ISBN: 1-85898-722-9
ULL; Livro branco da arquitectura e do ambiente urbano em Portugal. ISBN: 972-95943-5-X
Janice Morphet; Effective Practice in Spatial PLanning, Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-415-49281-2
Pedro J. Salvador Palomo; La planificación verde en las ciudades, Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2003. ISBN: 84-252-1517-X
National Research CouncilTransportation Research Board; Highway Capacity Manual. ISBN: 0-309-03821-9
John M. Levy; Contemporary urban planning. ISBN: 0-13-098598-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical courses. Presentation and discussion of case studies and best practices.
Research in small groups in practical classes. Discussion along the several phases of the assignment and in the presentation of the final proposal.

DEMONSTRATION OF THE COHERENCE BETWEEN THE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND THE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students are encouraged to develop criteria and establish methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of problems related to the urban environment and transport, to develop capacities to analyze and compare different types of interventions and methodologies of urban regulation, propose solutions to enhance the ability of intervention the urban environment and transport.

Software

QGIS
ArcView
AutoCAD

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Infrastructures engineering
Social sciences
Social sciences > Sociology > Urban sociology
Social sciences > Demography

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Teste	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Estudo autónomo	45,50
Frequência das aulas	45,50
Trabalho de campo	6,00
Trabalho escrito	26,00
Total:	129,00

Eligibility for exams

Achieving final classification requires compliance with attendance at the course unit, according to the LEC assessment rules. It is considered that students meet the attendance requirements if, having been regularly enrolled, the number of absences of 25% is not exceeded.

The Exam and the assignment is mandatory for all students.
The minimum grade for the exam is 4 (in a total of 12).

Students with special statuses, who are not enforced to attend all classes, are not exempt from complying with the evaluation rules of this Course, namely, they are not exempt from any of the components of the distributed evaluation, there is to say:

• Test;

• Delivery of the four Worksheets;
• Delivery and presentation in class of the Diagnosis and Proposal for Intervention;
• Delivery of other elements requested by the teachers during the TP classes, duly announced in the classes and in the informatic platforms that support the classes: Moodle and Sigarra.

Calculation formula of final grade

FG - Final Grade
T - Test
Ws1 - Worksheet 1
Ws2 - Worksheet 2
Ws3 - Worksheet 3
Ws4 - Worksheet 4

FG = 0,60*T +0,075*Ws1 + 0,125*Ws2+ 0,075*Ws3 + 0,125*Ws4

(classification of all components of evaluation are expressed for a scale from 0 to 20)

The  Exam and the Assignment of the semester (Ws1+Ws2+Ws3+Ws4) are mandatory for all students.
The minimum grade of the Exam is 4 (in a total of 12).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Final Exam

In the final exam the students only will have the possiblility to carry out an examination that will allow the student to recover the evaluation component corresponding to the Test.

The other components of the distributed evaluation (Ws1,Ws2,Ws3,Ws4) that were carried out during the semester, with teacher mentoring, can not be recovered in the form of a summary written test.


Special and end of course exams

In these periods, it is possible to recover the distributed assessment part, in the form of a written and oral component.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The  Test and the Workgroup/Assignment (Ws1,Ws2,Ws3,Ws4) along the semester are mandatory for all students.

Classification improvement

Grade Improvement

If a student wishes to improve his / her classification, he / she will be able to carry out a final exam that will correspond to the improvement of the evaluation tests that took place during the semester (Test).

In the event that a student intends to improve the other components of the distributed assessment (Ws1,Ws2,Ws3,Ws4) that were carried out during the semester, with teacher mentoring, this can only be achieved through a new distributed assessment session, at a later time (next school year).

Observations

Students, who have completed this course in the previous academic year, if they are not interested in any grade improvement of the practical part, do not have to do the practical assignment again.


Note
Only in special and end of course exams, it is possible to recover the distributed assessment part, in the form of a written and oral assessment.