Planning and Environmental Quality

Code:

EC0081

Acronym:

PQAM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Territory Planning and Environment

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
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	9	Syllabus since 2006/2007	5	-	5	60	133

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

A) Scientific-formatives: conception of the methods and instruments of ambient qualification of the urban spaces in a perspective of sustainable development.
B) Critical-formatives: development of the critical capacity on the problematic one of the urban quality.

Program

The nature of the ambient conflicts in the contexts urban and regional.
- Techniques of Comment in Urban Planning; - Concept of permeability (physical and visual)dos urban spaces;
- Importance of the interfaces public-private;
- Concept of variety - signficados forms, uses and limitantes factors: economies of scale and space specialization.
- Concept of legibility;
- physical Forms and standards of activity - difficulties to the reading of the urban spaces;
- Concept of robustness-polyvalence;
Analysis of the robustness to the great e to the small scale.
- Concept of visual apropriabilidade;
- Concept of wealth of the urban spaces felt Importance and paper of the diverse ones in the perception of the city.
- Concept and importance of the personalization of the public and private spaces;
The Territorial Planning as instrument of control of the quality of the environment.
- Indicating of quality of the urban environment;
- Advantages and disadvantages of the planning - particular case of the fulfilment of the Principle of the Paying Polluting agent.
Joint of the planning with the instruments of the environment politics.
Ambient qualification and urban sustentabilidade.
- green Structure and sustentabilidade;
- Principles of the sustainable urban management.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical exposition and resource to the visual ways audio.
Accompaniment of the critical analysis of the study of cases.
Visits of study the paradigmáticos spaces portuenses(previsão = 2 visitas/semestre).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of the practical lessons;
development and delivery of the theoretician-practical works.

Calculation formula of final grade

Practical Works = 50%.
Examination Theoretician-prático/monografia = 50%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

The preparation of a monograph will be able to substitute the teorico-practical examination.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Theoretician-practical examination.

Classification improvement

Theoretician-practical examination.

Observations

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Estimated working time out of classes: 4 hours