Land Use and Urban Design

This subject has the following teaching availabilities 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 was formerly known as Urban Design for Planners

Urban design is concerned with the qualities, use, ongoing improvement and management of the public realm such as streets, squares and pedestrian malls. This subject emphasises the development of urban design skills that are of value to urban planners, while critically reflecting on urban design as it is practised. Students will develop understandings of the nature of urban design, and the roles of planners and other professionals in relation to it. The fundamental qualities of urban places are examined from an urban design perspective. These understandings form the basis of skills development in using planning tools to achieve desirable urban design outcomes. An integrated program of lectures, tutorial workshops, fieldwork, and teamwork provide the theoretical and practical basis for developing urban design skills and understandings. Students will undertake hands-on urban design work, while reflecting critically upon the role of urban design, the skills they are developing, and the manner in which planning interconnects with urban design.

This subject aims to enable students to:

• understand the nature of urban design;
• assess the urban design qualities of urban places;
• use planning controls to effect desirable urban design outcomes;
• prepare and present urban design documents.

• Tutorial exercises in weeks 2-6 (40%).
• Major Urban Design submission: equivalent to 3,000 words (60%), due in week 12.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Creative response to complex problems.
• Spatial analysis.
• Awareness of different approaches to design tasks.
• Use of sketches and diagrams to analyse, plan and communicate.