Planning and Environmental Quality

Code:

EC0081

Acronym:

PQAM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Territory Planning and Environment

Instance: 2010/2011 - 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	11	Syllabus since 2006/2007	5	-	5	60	133

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

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 - forms, uses and 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 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 fulfillment of the Principle of the Paying Polluting agent.
Joint of the planning with the instruments of the environment politics.
Ambient qualification and urban sustainability.
- green Structure and sustainability;
- Principles of the sustainable urban management.

Mandatory literature

Hugh Barton, Marcus Grant and Richard Guise; Shaping neighbourhoods. ISBN: 0-415-26009-4
Michael Hough; Cities and natural process. ISBN: 0-415-12198-1
Bentley, I; Alcock, A; Murrain, P; McGlynn, S; Smith, G ; Responsive Environments, Butterworth – Heinemann, 1996
PPS Inc; How to turn a place around: a handbook for creating successful public spaces, Project for Public Spaces, Inc, New York, 2001
Williams, K; Burton, E; Jenks, M; Achieving Sustainable Urban Form, Spon, London, 2001

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical presentation of subjects with audiovisual support
Monitoring of critical analysis of case studies
Study visits to typical places in Porto (prevision: 2 visits per semester)

Software

ArcView

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering
Technological sciences > Architecture

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

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

Eligibility for exams

Attendance to classes
Theoretical-practical assignments


Assessment Components
Three theoretical-practical assignments
Theoretical-practical exam/ monograph

Calculation formula of final grade

Practical assignments = 50%
Theoretical-practical exam/ monograph = 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

The final exam may be substituted by a monograph.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Theoretician-practical examination.

SPECIAL RULES FOR MOBILITY STUDENTS:
Proficiency in Portuguese and/or English;
Previous attendance of introductory graduate courses in the scientific field addressed in this module;
Evaluation by exam and/or coursework(s) defined in accordance with student profile.

Classification improvement

Theoretician-practical examination.

Observations

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Estimated working time out of classes: 4 hours