Territorial Planning

Code:

EC0029

Acronym:

PTER

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Territory Planning and Environment

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
E-learning page:	http://moodle.fe.up.pt/
Responsible unit:	Spatial Planning and Environment Division
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEC	291	Syllabus since 2006/2007	3	-	5,5	60	145

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course aims to introduce the students to the problem of urban planning taking into account the role of the civil engineer as an agent (or producer) in the planning of real estate, infrastructures and equipments: instruction in urban planning is essential to assure that the ‘usage’ of the urban space is coherent with the standards of balanced and sustained development, with compromises of the building industry in terms of its impact in an effective urban integration. Hence, this subject aims to provide structured knowledge concerning the working conditions and the spatial organization conditions of urban territories, at framing the role of planning and urban management, and promoting a deeper knowledge in urban techniques and methodologies.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Technical knowledge and reasoning
1.3 Advanced engineering fundamental knowledge (applications)
2. Personal and professional skills and attributes
2.2 Experimentation and knowledge discovery
2.3 Advanced engineering fundamental knowledge
2.4 Personal skills and attitudes
2.5 Professional skills and attitudes
3. Interpersonal skills
3.1 Work group
3.2 Communications
4. Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and operating systems in the enterprise and societal context
4.4 Designing

Program

Cap.1 – General Introduction
Cap.2 – Basics of evolution and urban space occupation
- general concepts
- the fundamental elements of urban territories
- dynamics of urban basis: explanatory processes: factors of urban development, the urban economic basis and spatial interactions, the spatial competition between urban land usages and the internal differentiations of the city
Cap.3 – The urban problems and challenges
- current urban problems associated with the land market, the urban dimension and its economic and environmental efficiency, the decline of centres and the expansion of peripheral urban spaces, the urban transportation systems, specific urban types (fragmented metropolis, spread-out urbanization spaces)
- the necessity to make plans to face problems and conflicts arising from the cities’ day-to-day life and the challenges of sustainable urban development; the main objectives of urban planning
- models of urban planning: general features
Cap. 4 – Normative frame of urban planning: the main legal instruments
- frame: the system of territorial management and its instruments (Decree-law 380/99)
the inter-municipal and municipal land use plans
Cap. 5 – The plans and rules for occupation, usage and transformation of the urban land
- The master plan (MP) and its influence on the building of the city: general and specific objectives
- the MP as an instrument for municipal land usage planning
- the MP as an instrument for the definition of occupancy conditions of landed properties
- Urban and territorial content
- The housing scheme (HS) as an instrument for the configuration of the city:
- goals and objectives
- cooperation with other relevant agents
- proposals for urban organization and transformation
- The layout plan as an instrument for the building of the city
general features
- specific goals and objectives
- cooperation with other relevant agents
- The sectoral studies, the diagnosis and the agenda: fundamental components
Cap. 6 – Land management policies
- introduction
- classification of land policies: general influence on the market, public control of land involving, or not, its possession, fiscal control of urban development
- general and specific taxation strategies
Cap. 7 – Methodologies for evaluation of urban real estate
- Evaluation of urban real estate: general frame and objectives
- Characteristics of property and real estate market
- Factors changing the value of real estate
- Methods of evaluation of urban real estate
- The evaluation process: final notes
Taking into account the programme and objectives of this subject, the theoretical/practical classes consist of works associated with technical issues of implementation of municipal urban schemes and analysis and evaluation of projects.
Several practical exercises are carried out, concerning the direct use of methodologies and urban management techniques (exercise on the development of Urban Indexes from the survey of urban indicators in areas with different typologies; exercise on application or interpretation of Regulations of Master Plans: exercise on Evaluation of Real Estate), and works on technical information concerning processes of urban allotment (its evaluation according to the legislation and the MP regulation, and corresponding development of technical information to legitimize a municipal council resolution).

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching will consist of theoretical classes, with a predominantly explanatory nature, and in theoretical and practical classes, with group work.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	48,00
	Trabalho escrito	24,00
	Exame	3,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

- Attendance to classes- according to General Evaluation Rules of FEUP (article 4, paragraph 1)
- A semester assignment (students who have a special status- paragraph 3 of Article of General Evaluation Rules of FEUP- are not included)

Calculation formula of final grade

Applicable to students who are admitted to exams:
- A semester assignment – 2.5
- Attendance to theoretical classes – Assiduity (>50%) – 0.5
- Theoretical test- 9
- Theoretical-practical test- 8

Students with a special status (TE, TI, DA,….) the semester assignment will weight 3 values.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable. Test will be graded from 0 to 20.
If ERASMUS students do not master the Portuguese language, and therefore cannot follow the course, they will be graded based on an assignment proposed by the professor.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In the case of ERASMUS students that can't follow the course in Portuguese, grading will be done through the evaluation of a written report
to be proposed by the Professor responsible for the course.

Observations

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Working time estimated out of class: 3 hours