The Faculty of Urbanism / Landscape Design and Planning
UP-4 | Urbans Structures
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: Urban and Landscape Design
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Alexandru M. Sandu
- Learning outcomes:
- It aims to train students in order to have their own coherent urban thinking with respect to the understanding town as a complex urban and functional-configurative organism by clarifying both terminological and method problems.
- Content:
- The town as a global system.
Basic concepts in approaching urban making.
Urban morphology and syntax; the concept of urban structure; the model of urban organism; the concept of urban activity.
Urban functionality.
The urban organism way of operating.
Elements of urban supra-structure.
The urban parti: theme study.
The urban parti: the approach in variants and formulation of decision making.
Working methods: multi-criteria, structural-comparative analysis.
The study of the urban parti.
Urban modernization – concrete examples at the level of urban structure.
Restructuring as necessary action in the process of urban development.
Complex approach of urban restructuring.
The town centre in the process of urban restructuring. - Teaching Method:
- Lectures, problem debate, case studies
- Assessment:
- 50% - on-going tests + 50% - examination
- Bibliography:
- CHAPIN - Urban Land use Planning;
WEBER - Indagini sulla strutture urbane;
NIEBANCK - Relocation in urban Planning;
PAPA-GEORGIU - Integration urbaine;
SANDU, A - Structura urbana - curs;
SANDU, A - Culegere de articole.
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