Planning the Productive City (Masters)

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

Admission to the Master of Urban Planning, or permission of the coordinator.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject explores ways that the economic production of goods and services shapes the vitality, structure and planning agenda of cities. It uses an economic sectoral perspective to demonstrate how sectorssuch as manufacturing, transport, services and creative activities have locational impacts in certain cities and within selected parts of cities. Complex planning issues, requiring judgments about the competing demands of economic development and social needs, are associated with the growth and decline of sectors in their particular urban contexts. Special attention will be paid to innovation in city development, and to the planning of infrastructure in airports, seaports and telecommunications.

• An understanding of the foundation and development of economic activities in cities
• The ability to analyse the location of economic activities

• The ability to develop planning responses to changes in urban economic activity

Tutorial papers totalling 1000 words (20%) and a research essay of 4000 words (80%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.