COMPETENCES

Adequate knowledge of urbanism, urban planning, and the techniques applied in the planning process. Ability to catalogue the built urban heritage and to plan its protection. Knowledge of civil, administrative, urbanistic and building regulation, as well as that related to industry related to professional performance.

- Understanding of urban planning methods.

- Legal foundations.

Ability to apply planning methodologies on detailed scales.

Development of formalization techniques of the current processes of urban rehabilitation, regeneration and renewal, in an urban plan.

COURSE PROGRAMME

In order to develop the objectives and the above competences, this course is composed both by theoretical lectures and practical workshop sessions.



Theory programme:

1- Urban planning and the city: Historical background and conceptual framework

2-Legal fundamentals. The District/Area Urban Renewal Plan

3-Current Urban Renewal policies

4-Urban Land parcellation: The Cost-benefit equity principle

5-Urban redensification and reuse: Strategies and Models

6-Cities and the Built Heritage. Urban Renewal and/or Conservation plans

7-Detail Study and Urban Planning. Planning and Building regulations



Exams will evaluate theoretical knowledge. In addition, based on the contents that will be explained in class, students will develop theoretical work on a specific topic. At the same time, students will perform some individual, short-lasting exercise, related to the contents explained in the theoretical classes.



Practice programme:

Theory lectures and practical sessions are closely linked: The training concept is based on theoretical issues related to practical exercises. Planning work for a real city case-study at municipal District/Area scale will be developed in two stages, as follows:

- Analysis and proposal for a Revised Structural Urban Plan of an existing city

- A detailed development planning proposal for specific districts and/or areas to be determined.

The theoretical programme will be developed individually. The practical programme will be performed preferably individually, but the teacher can propose to develop one of the two tasks, or both, in groups.

1st METHODOLOGY: Theoretical Lessons

Theoretical lectures that provide in addition the necessary fundamentals for the comprehension of practical exercises, also including oral presentations, case studies and debate sessions.

2nd METHODOLOGY: Workshop Sessions

Regular workshop sessions in which students will be involved in transferring theoretical concepts towards the development of practical exercises. They include both individual and group work.

3rd METHODOLOGY: Visits and excursions

If necessary, students will go on a guided visit to the site together with the professor.

4th METHODOLOGY: Learning outside the classroom

The students themselves delve into the contents of the subject.

5th METHODOLOGY: Tutorial sessions

The aim of tutorial sessions is the review of the submitted work as a complement of the regular lectures. Tutorial sessions may be either in group or individual.



NON-PRESENTIAL TEACHING

If face-to-face teaching must be stopped due to a health emergency or similar reasons, it will be conducted virtually through the BlackBoard Collaborate platform in eGela. If this happens, the teacher will inform the students of what has happened and what needs to be done, through the eGela forum, by email, or through any another notification.

ASSESSMENT OF THE SUBJECT

The practical work carried out by the students will be subject to continuous evaluation and will be carried out through partial submissions. The final mark will depend on all the submissions.

In addition, exams and theoretical exercises will be carried out and the evaluation of the course will be conditioned by both the practical and the theoretical parts.

NON PRESENTIAL TEACHING

In the event of an interruption of face-to-face teaching, due to a health emergency or by similar causes, the evaluation will be adapted as specified in the “assessment systems” section.

CONTINUOUS EVALUATION DECLINING OPTION:

Students provenly unable to follow the continuous evaluation course, by justified cause, will have the right to take a final evaluation. This final evaluation will consist in the delivery of the practical exercise work and an extra written exercise. The above situation must be notified to the teacher within the first 9 weeks of the course.

ORDINARY EXAM CALL: GUIDELINES & DECLINING TO SIT (`not presented´):

Should a student prefer to be granted a not presented mark after having submitted only part of the course exercises, he or she must notify this choice to the teacher by e-mail not later than one week prior to the final examination date.

- Basic manual and digital drawing tools

Basic bibliography

ESTEBAN I NOGUERA, Julio:"Elementos de Ordenación Urbana", Barcelona/ETSAB-COAC/1981

SOLÀ-MORALES, Manuel:"Las formas de crecimiento urbano", Barcelona/UPC/1997

BANDARIN, Francesco; VAN OERS, Ron:" The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century", NJ/Wiley/2012

POL, Francisco:"La recuperación de los centros históricos en España",en"Arquitectura y Urbanismo en las ciudades históricas",Madrid/UIMP&MOPU/1988

HERNANDEZ AJA, Agustín:"La ciudad de los ciudadanos",Madrid/Ministerio de Fomento/1997

PRINZ, Dieter: "Planificación y configuración urbana", México/Gustavo Gili/1983

PARCERISA, Josep;RUBERT DE VENTÓS, María:"La ciudad no es una hoja en blanco",Barcelona/Ediciones ARQ/2000

GATÓN PÉREZ DE ALBÉNIZ, J., TEJERINA GONZÁLEZ J.I., y HEREDERO BERZOSA, I.:"Manual de Ordenación Urbanística de la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco",IVAP/Oñati/2013

In-depth bibliography

CHOAY, Françoise: "Alegoría del patrimonio", Barcelona/Gustavo Gili/2007
CHOAY, Françoise: "El Urbanismo. Utopías y Realidades", Barcelona/Ed. Lumen/1970
MORRIS, Anthony E. J.: " History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions". London/Longman/1994
GALARRAGA, I. y TABERNA, B.: "La Vasconia de las ciudades", Bilbo/1997
UNZURRUNZAGA X., GALARRAGA I., LOPEZ DE ABERASTURI, A., AZPIRI, A. y ALKORTA, JM.: "Ensanches urbanos en las ciudades vascas", Gasteiz/Eusko Jaurlaritza/2002.
BOHIGAS, Oriol: "Contra la incontinencia urbana - Reconsideración moral de la arquitectura y la ciudad", Barcelona/Electa/2004
DALDA ESCUDERO, Juan Luis: "Documentos de reflexión urbanística 6 (DRU6)", A Coruña/ETSAC/2011
BUSQUETS, Joan & CASARIEGO, Joaquín (et al.):"La reconstrucción de los centros urbanos. La experiencia europea. La experiencia europea sobre la rehabilitación de la ciudad histórica",Barcelona/Casariego-Guerra, Arquitectos/2002
CERASI, Maurice:"Lo spazio colletivo della cittá",Milano/Mazzotta/1976
RODRIGUEZ-TARDUCHY, María José: "Forma y ciudad", Madrid/Cinter Divulgación Técnica/2008
SOLÀ-MORALES, Manuel: "Diez lecciones sobre Barcelona", Barcelona/COAC/2008
SOLÀ-MORALES, Manuel: "De cosas urbanas", Barcelona/Gustavo Gili/2008

Journals

Ciudad y Territorio
Town Planning Review
Urban (revista de la ETSAM)
Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme
Journal of Urban Design