Course Code & Number:
ARCH 381
Course Title:
Urban Design
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits:
(2+2+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 6 ECTS Credits
Catalog Description:
Theories, movements and approaches in the history of planning and urban design. Urban design as an interdisciplinary field of study and practice. Tools for analyzing and mapping urban contexts. Key concepts, principles and operative scales of urban design. Design-based exercises at urban scale.
Pre-requisite / Co-requisite:
Pre-requisites:
ARCH 202
Co-requisites:
NONE
Learning Outcomes:
1. understand the disciplinary complexity and in-betweenness of urban design
2. discuss theories, movements and approaches in planning and urban design
3. analyze urban environments in terms of social, economic, cultural and environmental dynamics of the local context and correspondent physical forms
4. integrate fundamental concepts, elements and principles of urban design
5. develop a multi-scalar approach in urban design process