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.

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