Urban Spaces Management

Code:

MPPU008

Acronym:

GEU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Spatial Planning and Urbanism

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Spatial Planning and Urban Project

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MPPU	12	Syllabus since 2011/12	1	-	6	45,5	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

It focuses on presenting and discussing the debate on urban space production, following a methodology based on phases:
(i) perception of urban spaces ,
(ii) review of recent history of urbanism and of the main utopias from the past. The co-creation of urban imaginaries and development of utopias in the present.
(iii) interpretation of the forms and tendencies of the process of urban production in the various dimensions, and debate on better urban spaces with a special focus on community engagement and the development of joint urban visions.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Perception of urban spaces
- Understanding urban spaces; spaces & places, urban functions; the image of the city. 
- The meaning of spaces. Urban identity.

2. Utopian thinking - past and future
- Brief review of the main Utopias of the past: ideologies and proposals. Heritage of the past in the contemporary city
- Utopian thinking 
- Utopias for an urban future.

3. Visions and paradigms for the contemporary city
- The development process: actors and mechanisms, models of urban development.
- New processes and forms of intervention in the city. The agents of change.
- Debates on formal and informal; temporary interventions, shared urban spaces, privatisation of spaces, and virtual spaces.
- Collaborative processes (co-creation, co-design) in the development of joint visions with the community.
- Visions for the future and urban imaginaires.

Mandatory literature

Françoise Choay; L.urbanisme, utopies et réalités
ed. by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout; The city reader. ISBN: 0-415-27173-8
Henri Lefebvre; The production of space. ISBN: 0-631-18177-6
Carmona et al ; Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, Architectural Press, 2002
Ali Madanipour; Public and private spaces of the city. ISBN: 0-415-25629-1
ed. by Ali Madanipour, Angela Hull and Patsy Healey; The governance of place. ISBN: 0-7546-1086-1
ed. Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin; After sustainable cities?. ISBN: 978-0-415-65987-1
Phil Hubbard; Key thinkers on space and place. ISBN: 0-7619-4963-1
Jeffrey Hou; Insurgent public space. ISBN: 978-0-415-77966-1
Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom; Now Urbanism: the Future City is Here, Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom, 2015. ISBN: 9780415717861
Jeffrey Hou, Sabine Knierbein; City Unsilenced: Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy, Jeffrey Hou, Sabine Knierbein, 2017. ISBN: 9781138125810
Jan Gehl & Birgitte Svarre; How to Study Public Life, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-59726-445-7
Jeffrey Hou; Insurgent public space. ISBN: 978-0-415-77966-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures using audio visual facilities. Discussion of the main themes and issues in group.
Monitoring and review of the main pratical assignments.
Presentation (group and individual) and class discussions of the progress of the work according to the established schedule.

Evaluation methods: written assignment and workgroup.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Participação presencial	5,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Trabalho de campo	10,00
Total:	110,00

Eligibility for exams

Achieving final classification requires compliance with attendance at the course unit. It is considered that students meet the attendance requirements if, having been regularly enrolled, the number of absences of 25% for each of the classes’ types is not exceeded.

The following cases are exempted from the attendance requirements: 
i) cases prescribed by law, including student workers; 
ii) students who were admitted to exams in the previous academic year.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final evaluation = Individual component (5 values) + Workgroup (14 values) + participation (1 value)

Minimum grade for approval = 10 values.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The assignments are required in order to be able to do the final exam.

Classification improvement

The improvement of classification will be carried out on the date of the examination in the second phase, as a written exam, or as an oral examination.

Observations

Classes are given in English, if there is at least one foreign student.

The practical assignments are mandatory.