Department:

Urban and Landscape Design

Course Leader:

prof.dr.urb. Andreea Necșulescu

Learning outcomes:

The course aims to train students into having their own coherent thinking, in order to develop their capacity of interdisciplinary approach in urban planning, and to understand the city as a complex urban and functional-configurative organism, by clarifying both terminological and methodological problems; also, the course will develop students’ ability to compose logically deducted analytical and synthetic conclusions regarding phenomena and specific working methods.

Content:

Complexity in urban planning. Complex systems and processes
Cities as systems of activities;
Urban functionality;
Urban morphology and urban syntax;
Spatial system components’ arrangement
Spatial distribution of spatial system components;
Zoning;
Urban integration;
Limits in urban structure;
A new model for studying the urban organism;
Urban layout scheme
Urban restructuring.

Teaching Method:

Lectures, comments on explanatory schemes, problem debate, case studies.

Assessment:

Final exam - Multiple-choice test (8 points) and ongoing assessment (2 points). Outstanding results/answers in the ongoing assessment may constitute the exam grade.

Bibliography:

1. Al. Sandu: Structura urbană, curs, Ed. U.A.U.I.M., Bucuresti – 1992
2. Tiberiu Florescu: Formă și trans-formare urbană, Ed. Universitară “Ion Mincu”, Ed.a 2-a, 2009
3. Philip R.Berke, David R. Godschalk, Eduard J.Kaiser, Daniel A. Rodriguez : Urban Land Use Planning – Fifth Edition, University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago, 2006

Bibliografie opțională:
1. M. Roncayolo: Lectures de villes. Formes et temps, Ed. Parentheses, Paris, 2002
2. Al. Sandu: Articole din revista Arhitext nr. 1/2006, 5/2001, 1/2015