Urban Environment and Transport Planning

Code:

EC4108

Acronym:

AUT

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEC	220	Plano de Estudos EC a partir de 2003	4	3	5	-
		P.E. dos Bacharéis de 2003	5	3	5	-
		P.E. dos Bacharéis em Eng. Geo. de 2003	4	3	5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To provide instruments for the description and interpretation of current problems of urban environment and transport.
To present and discuss strategies, methodologies and instruments for urban environment and transport policies and planning.

Program

1- Problems: nature and meaning of environmental conflicts in urban areas.
2- Description and interpretation of urban areas. Methodologies for characterisation, analysis, diagnosis and prevision.
3- Ideologies. Strategical "visions" and the sustainability concept.
4- Interventions. Urban policies and programmes.
5- Results. Evaluation and monitoring.

Case studies:
Description of the situation of Oporto: demography, housing, collective equipments.
Methodolgies of evaluation: choice of the location of a new cultural equipment at Oporto.

Main Bibliography

Friedmann, John - Planning in the public domain : from knowledge to action. Princeton : Princeton University Press , cop. 1987
Friedmann, John - The prospect of cities. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2002.
Hall, Peter - Urban & regional planning. 3rd ed . London : Routledge , 1992.
Hall, Peter - Cidades do amanhã : uma história intelectual do planeamento e do projecto urbanos no século XX. São Paulo : Perspectiva , cop. 1995
Salgueiro, Teresa Barata - A cidade em Portugal : uma geografia urbana. 3ª ed . Porto : Edições Afrontamento , 1999.

Complementary Bibliography

The students must develop their ability to research and use FEUP's library facilities, in the fields or urban planning, environment and transports.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical courses.
Presentation and discussion of case studies.
Research in small groups.

Software

ArcGIS

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	52,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of practical classes. Development of research in small groups. Elaboration of indidual reports on cases studied.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam - 17/20
Individual reports on cases studied in practical classes - 3/20

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Final exam - 20/20
Working students may choose, in the beggining of the term, to develop the same case studies and to elaborate the individual repots as the other students.