Urbanism and Urban Morphology

Code:

MRCOT038

Acronym:

UMU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Human Geography

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geography
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Hazards, Cities and Spatial Planning

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MRCOT	5	MRCOT - Study Plan	1	-	6	41	162
MSIGOT	1	MSIGOT - Study Plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The construction of the learning objectives resulted from consideration of the objectives and skills to be acquired planned for the course of study (and the resulting outlined post-graduate profile) and the relevant disciplinary syllabus for UC, taking into account also the depth level of the course. In addition, in the case of a cycle of geography and area studies focusing on the UC content in the urban territories/spaces, it is obvious the relevance of these to work to achieve the objectives set for the course of study, with consistency between syllabus and learning objectives further enhanced by the teaching/learning provided.
Of course, the objectives are addressed in the following item on the learning outcomes and competencies.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understand and apply concepts of urbanism and urban morphology, considering different territorial contexts and combining different scales of observation;

Understand and discuss the conceptual framework in which are articulated the urbanism and urban morphology, considering the physical and social facts and assessing the diversity and interdependence between the local and the global;

Analyze and understand the evolution of urban planning and urban forms, using relevant, updated and diverse information;

Develop analytical skills and understanding of current urban spaces, identifying and sorting matrix, types and morphogenetic testimonies expressing them correctly and accurately and adopting attitudes critical but open to change;

Know and acquire intervention skills in current urban spaces, promoting the application of knowledge, methodologies and techniques of research and action in urban morphology, aimed at identifying and solving problems.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Urbanisation and urban morphology: concepts and articulations.

2. Evolution of urbanism and urban morphology

2.1. The first achievements and the Classical Antiquity

2.2. The medieval urban morphologies

2.3. The city of "Renaissance" to the town of "Enlightenment"

2.4. The pre-urbanism: Principles, agents and disciplinary influence

2.4.1. Criticism of the industrial city (utopian and hygienists; culturalist and progressive)

2.4.2. Achievements and testimonials

2.5. City planning: principles, agents and disciplinary influence

2.5.1. Regulations, town planning and urban planning

2.5.2. Garden city

2.5.3. Modern city and postmodern

3. Urbanism, urban morphology and urban planning: current approaches and perspectives.

Mandatory literature

Allain, Rèmy; Morphologie urbaine, aménagement et architecture de la ville, Armand Colin, 2004
Calabi, Donatella; História do Urbanismo Europeu, Editora Perspectiva Lda., 2008. ISBN: 978-85-273-0933-2
Choay, Françoise; L.urbanisme. ISBN: 2-02-005328-4
Delfante, Charles; A^grande história da cidade. ISBN: 972-771-207-X
Fernandes, Mário Gonçalves; Urbanismo e morfologia urbana no Norte de Portugal
Gravagnuolo, Benedetto; Historia del urbanismo en Europa 1750-1960. ISBN: 84-460-0627-8
Hall, Peter; Cities of tomorrow. ISBN: 0-631-19943-8
Lamas, José M. Ressano Garcia; Morfologia urbana e desenho da cidade. ISBN: 972-31-0606-X
Morris, A. E. J; Historia de la forma urbana. ISBN: 84-252-1181-6
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990; The city in history. ISBN: 0-15-618035-9
Panerai, P. et al; Analyse Urbaine, Ed. Parenthèses, 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching methodologies are also learning, in the case of a process that, using various techniques, favors the debate as the main strategy, with the aim that students walk to a somewhat more active and generating position, reserving the faculty the paper feeder, and moderator of the debate router.

The whole process is anchored in an individual practical work to be done by each student defines a "piece" of a urban fabric, carries out its analysis and characterization, proposing, finally, a plan outline for your order. The weekly monitoring of each work, witnessed the class, triggering allows the verification problems, theoretical and methodological difficulties that expose needs (reading, expository phases of the local study outputs) and feed the debate, clarifier for resolution of labor (50% of the final grade) and consolidator content to be assessed at the written final test (25%) and the presentation of a reference book/author on the history of urbanism (25%).

The teaching / learning methodologies are grounded in two key aspects that, in itself, enable and contribute effectively for students to achieve the expected learning objectives: practical work and debate. The first contributes directly to develop analytical skills, understanding and intervention in existing urban spaces, the second, fed by monitoring the work, for a few expository installments, the readings and the study outputs, contributes, clearly, to understand apply and discuss concepts, conceptual frameworks and respective evolution, using relevant, updated and diverse information and expressing themselves correctly and accurately and adopting attitudes critical but open to change.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Teste	25,00
Trabalho laboratorial	25,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	35,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Trabalho de investigação	51,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	35,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance in 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written paper (50% of the final grade) + laboratory work (25%) + written test (25%).

Classification improvement

Under the rules set by the Pedagogic Council of the FLUP.