Base Knowledge
Urbanism
Teaching Methodologies
The teaching methodologies to be adopted are intended to be diversified and include lectures, group work, individual research work and consequent presentation, as well as the realization of a larger project of requalification of a public space.
Learning Results
The learning objectives focus on the development and acquisition of: knowledge about the forces shaping the construction of cities and the challenges they face today; ability to recognize the various elements that make up the built environment and its public and private dimensions; ability to analyze the quality of a public space in the perspective of human and humanized use; knowledge about the production of urban space of private origin: planning, quality criteria, legislation, economic implications.
Program
1. Cities
– Introduction and concepts; the role of cities in contemporary societies; problems and challenges – Sustainable cities
– Main models of cities throughout the ages
– The internal structure of agglomerations
– Urban risks in the context of climate change
– Components of the urban built environment
2. Urban public spaces
– Notions of design of public space elements – Success factors in public spaces
– Urban infrastructures and built environment – Tactical urbanism
– Urban furniture
3. Production of urban space and private initiative
– Notions of architectural quality and insertion of buildings in the built environment
– Urban regeneration and circular cities
– The land market: basic notions and its impact on construction dynamics; land and property valuation – Territorial management instruments at urban scale and their execution; the equalization system
– Legislation: legal regime of urbanization and building; urban licensing procedures and circuits
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Global Designing Cities Initiative, & National Association of City Transportation Officials (2016). Global street design guide. Island Press.
Brandão, P. (2008). A identidade dos lugares e a sua representação coletiva. Série Política de Cidades no3. DGOTDU. Lisboa.
Sidónio Pardal, Paulo Correia e M.Costa Lobo, (1991). Normas Urbanísticas, DGOT-UTL.
Oliveira, V. (2016). Urban morphology: an introduction to the study of the physical form of cities. Springer.
F. Chueca Goitia (1992), Breve História do Urbanismo, Editorial Presença.
Paulo V.D. Correia (1993), Políticas de Solos no Planeamento Municipal – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Jorge Carvalho (2003), Formas Urbanas, Minerva Coimbra.
DL 48/98 – Lei de Bases do Ordenamento do Território e do Urbanismo.
DL 380/98 – Regime Jurídico dos Instrumentos de Gestão Territorial.
DL 177/2001 – Regime Jurídico da Urbanização e Edificação.