Land use management

Non applicable.

The methodologies will include the lecture method, discussion sessions, group learning, investigation-based tasks, project development, site visits, student presentations in class, and problem-solving exercises.

• To become acquainted with the principal documents that frame urban planning and management activities in Portugal, and with the role of local authorities.
• To understand the instruments and procedures related to urban management in an urban context.
• To conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of private individuals’ proposals to intervene in the territory.
• To critically assess, from a sustainability perspective, the production of urban space through the development of allotments.
• To identify trends in participatory territorial governance and associated practices.

• Territorial planning and management in Portugal: legal framework, concepts and practice; system and instruments.
• Local authorities and their responsibilities in the field of urban management.
• Licensing as an urban management tool: procedures involved.
• Operational techniques linked to urban planning and management: site analysis, demographic analysis, socio-economic analysis, urban indicators.
• Urban planning decisions: types (strategic and non-strategic); decision-support methods (cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis).
• Urban allotments: procedures, design and appraisal criteria, examined from a sustainability standpoint.
• Systems for implementing municipal plans and equalising urban management.
• Land policy at the municipal level.
• Governance and public participation within territorial planning contexts.
• Geographic information systems (GIS) in urban management.

Assessment is organised in three modalities:

1. Continuous assessment

• Based on two written tests: the first halfway through the semester and the second at the end.
• A minimum of 30% is required in each test.
• The final grade corresponds to the arithmetic mean of both tests.
• Students who do not pass under this modality are not admitted to the regular exam, only to the resit exam.

2. Examination assessment

• Consists of a single exam (regular or resit), according to the official calendar, which covers the entire syllabus of the curricular unit.
• The final grade is the result obtained in the exam.

3. Erasmus students

• Assessed through practical assignments (50% of the final grade), with mandatory defence, carried out during the semester.
• Complemented by a final test, to be taken at the end of the semester on a date set before the regular exam period, or in the regular or resit exam, worth 50% of the final grade.
• Each component (practical assignments and final test) requires a minimum grade of 30%.
• Only the component corresponding to the final test can be improved in the resit exam.
• The final grade is the weighted sum of both components.

In any modality, students pass if their final grade, rounded to the nearest integer, is equal to or higher than 10 out of 20.

NAO