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Infraestruturas e Equipamentos Urbanos

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Base Knowledge

Non applicable

Teaching Methodologies

Learning methodologies will include lectures, discussions, and problem-solving (individually or in groups).
The applied side of the course will be developed, if possible, through a number of visits and practical assignments. Also, that will be developed by sessions run by practitioners (from the private or public sectors) in which they will share concrete projects and situations.

Learning Results

Describe and relate the support structures for collective urban life from a transversal and intersectoral point of view.
 
Explain the problems associated with the planning, managing and operating infrastructures and facilities, and the spaces where they usually are installed.
 
Solve equipment operational planning problems.

Recommend integrated interventions in infrastructures in urban areas.

Critically evaluate the use and improvement of public spaces.

Plan intervention proposals in an articulated manner.

Program

Urban Facilities

Concept, classification and typologies; planning of collective facilities; strategic vs operational approaches;

methodologies of operational planning of public facilities in urban context; Description of the evolution of demand;

intervention at the level of the supply: simple problems vs complex problems; models of facilities management

 

Urban Infraestrutures

Typologies and classification; rational in designing and efficiency in the implementation; implementation of

infrastructures’ networks: approaches, technical requirements and articulation, standard profiles; visual impact and

integration of support structures (deposits, centrals…); urban green infrastructure; infrastructure interdependencies; Sustainability assessment of urban infrastructures;

management and maintenance of urban infrastructures. GIS potential

 

Basic techniques to support decision-making

Multi-criteria analysis and cost-benefit analysis

 

Urban public spaces as places to access services and equipments

Typologies and functions; Fundamentals of urban design; success characteristics; urban furniture; implications of including sustainability principles in designing and managing urban public spaces

Curricular Unit Teachers

Mário Miguel de Abreu Martins

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

– notes provided by the teachers

– Branco-Teixeira, Miguel (2010), in Revista da Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia, nº7, p 68-80, Universidade Fernando Pessoa

– Brandão, Pedro (2008), A identidade dos lugares e a sua representação coletiva, DGOTDU

– Carvalho, J.; Marinho, R. (2013). Planeamento de Equipamentos Locais. Edição Jorge Carvalho/Bublok.

– Derrible, S. (2019), Urban engineering for sustainability. MIT Press

– DGOTDU (2002), Normas para a programação e caracterização de equipamentos coletivos, Coordenação Divisão de Normas/Direcção de Serviços de Estudos e Planeamento Estratégico.

– Gordon, Patricia (2012), Infrastructure cost and Urban Growth Management, Sustainable Cities International

– Moughtin, Cliff (2003), Urban design – street and square, Architectural Press

– UN-Habitat (2013), The relevance of street patterns and public space in urban areas

– Zavrl & Zeren (2010), Sustainability of Urban Infrastructures, in  Sustainability 2010, 2, 2950-2964; doi:10.3390/su2092950