Planning the Productive City

This subject is not offered in 2011.

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements 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 sectors like manufacturing, transport, services and creative activities have locational impacts in certain cities and within selected parts of cities. Complex planning issues, requiring judgements 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.

• Address complex planning issues in particular urban economic contexts.

• Tutorial papers not exceeding 1000 words in total (20%);
• An essay not exceeding 2000 words (40%);
• And a two-hour examination (40%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Understanding of the foundation and development of economic activities in cities;
• Ability to analyze the location of economic activities;
• Ability to develop planning responses to changes in urban economic activity.