This course explores important substantive areas and concepts in the field of urban and regional planning and current urban planning and policy issues and debates. Topics include: forces that have historically guided and are currently guiding urbanization; land use, growth management, transportation and traffic congestion, economic development, housing and community development, environmental planning; legal, environmental, governmental contexts.
Urban policy is a conceptual and systematic activity by a public authority, aimed at the development of cities. The course discusses how economic, political and social forces work together to influence policy approaches in the various spatial environments and how planning approaches reflect this. Also, the course discusses the urban areas characteristics, categories of a town, classification of settlement based on form, use, scale etc., densities of a town, planning process, various stages of the planning process with relevant examples, surveys in planning, physical characteristics, utilities, population, employment and industry, housing, commercial issues and transportation, land use, plans; regional plan, Master plan, zonal development plan, structure plan and transportation plan.
The course covers the following main topics:
Introduction to urban design as a discipline and its relationship with architecture and planning.
• Urban form, structure, and scale; street networks and open space systems.
• Public space typologies and spatial hierarchies.
• Morphological and visual analysis of urban environments.
• Principles of urban sustainability, resilience, and livability.
• Place-making, accessibility, and pedestrian-oriented design.
• Contextual and heritage-sensitive urban design approaches.
• Case studies of successful urban design interventions.
- Öğretmen: Aminreza IRANMANESH