Planning 2 - Spatial and Strategic Planning

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Department of Spatial Planning

Synopsis:

The course teaches students basic skills of urban planner by exploring various sites in the Prague durign six field topical trips: housing estates, office centers, urban transportation, urban regeneration, urban green infrastructure and suburbanization. Students have a chance to analyze and discuss the history and general context of the urban development of visited sites. To activate students during the field trips they are individually completing the questionnaire and at the end of the trip they are discussing the answers with teachers and other colleagues.

The students are choosing one of the visited sites and elaborate the SWOT analysis, Map of Constraints and Potentials, identify the main problems of the site and to propose the concepts of possible solutions.

Requirements:

Condition for completing the studio project:

Active participation on the field trips

Delivering the questionnaire after each excursion

At least one consultation of the assignment with one of teachers in two weeks following the visit of the selected site

Delivery and presentation of the assignment in the final meeting of the course

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Opening session. 2. Man and the environment. Planning, the environment and designing. Project will be discussed. 3. Planning methodology I. Urban composition. Mental map. 4. Planning methodology II. Surveys for planning. Land-use. 5. Planning methodology III. Land-use plan, legal limits, plan-making. 6. Deadline: survey drafts. Instruction for Constraints and Potentials Map. 7. Topical lecture - a case of development. 8. Project site analysis. 9. SWOT analysis. Identification of issues for Strategy. 10. Tutoring, discussion of strategies. 11. Mock hearing of strategies. 12. Local planning. Planning and zoning regulations. 13. Tutoring of regulations. 14. Final presentation.

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Study materials:

1. Maier, Karel - Hexner, Michal - Kibic, Karel: Urban Development of Prague: History and Present Issues, ČVUT, Praha, 1998. 2. Norberg-Schultz, Christian: Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Rizzoli, New York, 1980, 1984. 3. Barlow, Max - Dostál, Petr - Hampl, Martin: Development and Administration of Prague, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1994. 4. ÚRM: Strategic plan for Prague, City of Prague, 2000.

Note:

The minimum number of students to open the course is 5. EXCEPTION for self-paying students: if there are less than 5 students, the course will be taught in consultations.

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: