Unit Code: URP613

Unit Name: Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning

Description: The course will divided become two major theme first about introduction to urban planning, this theme offers a broad overview of the structure and process of contemporary planning practice throughout the world. It will briefly review the evolution of cities and current trends in urbanization. It will highlight both the theoretical debates and practical challenges that planners are likely to encounter within different substantive subfields of planning practice; and discuss problem-solving techniques and strategies used by practicing planners working in different institutional contexts. Second theme is introduction to regional planning is designed to provide basic methods of analysis and planning for Regional Planning students and the ones interested in these methods. The methods introduced in the course are the ones that are widely used and important in analysis of both regions and urban areas. The general aims of this course are: (1) the students have knowledge of relevant aspects of the history of planning and of planning approaches in their historical and comparative context (CPIA2-01), and (2) Knowledge and theories of urban and regional planning and systems, including principles of land use, urban form, infrastructure, natural systems, transport, the integration of land use and transport, heritage conservation, landscape and human settlement patterns (CPIA2-03).

Learning Target Outcomes:

Prerequisite: URP511 or Consent from HOD

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1