Postgraduate Course: Urban Project A (ARCH11223)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Urban Project A serves as a preparation for the course Urban Project B and the latter's focus on developing urban analysis and a proposal for an urban project. In Urban Project A, the student is introduced to specialized urban theory developed in disciplines such as geography, sociology, political science and urbanism, and studies their application within the city.
Aims of the Course
To give students an understanding of the broadness and complexity of themes, issues, processes, and actors within local urban settings, in which forms of urban strategic change (i.e. strategic, development, regeneration etc.) take place.
To enable students to draw from the teaching, team working, and course tasks,
An ability to evaluate multi-faceted issues within an urban location, and with the application of gained theoretical knowledge and analytical practices, suggest practical strategies, in which to affect local engagement and forms of urban transformation.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Critical knowledge and understanding
The development of a critical knowledge and understanding of theories themes and practice in the are of urban interventions over a series of disciplinary practices.
2. Understanding of concepts and theories
The ability to critically reflect on practices and processes as engaged with in the course of developing and undertaking the urban strategies identified for the location and context engaged with over the course of the project.
3. Communication of knowledge
The presentation and discussion of work undertaken, within the urban thematic framework used during the semester at both group and individual level, using a number of methods and devices.
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Assessment Information
Critical knowledge and understanding 33%
Assessed in Assignment AA: Project Analysis Review& Report.
Understanding of concepts and theories 33%
Assessed in; interim presentation and Assignment AA: Project Analysis Review & Report.
Communication of knowledge 34%
Assessed in Assignment AA
Project Analysis Review & Report.
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Draft Timetable
Week 1: Introduction, readings, discussion.
Week 2: seminar, lecture.
Week 3: seminar.
Week 4: seminar.
Week 5: lecture, seminar.
Week 6: Study trip (excursion) /Innovative learning week
Week 7.Assignment A: review & conclusions.
No attendance required for rest of semester after submission of Assignment for Assessment.
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| Transferable skills |
Urban analysis, team work, formulating and communicating a theoretical argument. |
| Reading list |
Reyner Banham, Paul Barker, Peter Hall & Cedric Price, ¿Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom¿, in: New Society, Vol. 13, No. 338, 20 March 1969, p. 435-443.
Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer (eds), Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (London: Routledge, 2011).
Peter Hall, Cities in Civilization (London: W&S, 1998).
David Harvey, ¿Notes Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development¿, Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development(London; New York: Verso, 2006).
David Harvey, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (Oxford; Blackwell, 1996).
Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. III: From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life) (London; New York: 2005).
Peter Marcuse, ¿Do Cities Have a Future?¿, in The Imperiled Economy: Through the Safety Net, New York: Union of Radical Political Economists, 1988, pp. 189-200..
Margit Mayer, ¿Contesting the Neoliberalization of Urban Governance¿, in Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric S. Sheppard [eds.], Contesting Neoliberalism (New York; London: Guilford Press, 2006).
Lewis Mumford, The City in History, New York; London: A Harvest Book, 1989.
Lloyd Rodwin, The British New Towns Policy: Problems and Implications, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.
Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space (Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991).
Manfredo Tafuri, ¿Towards a Critique of Architectural Ideology¿, in: K. Michael Hays (ed.), Architecture Theory since 1968, Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2000.
Michael Young & Peter Willmott, Family and Kinship in East London, London; New York: Penguin, 2007
Sandercock, L, Making the Invisible Visible: A multicultural Planning History, University of California Press, California, 1998
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Teaching seminars, discussions, lectures, individual study of literature.
The course will be delivered as follows:
Weeks 1 - 5
Theory delivery: seminars, lectures, discussions, case study travel.
(Week 3 comprises Interim Review)
Week 6
Study trip (excursion) / Innovative Learning Week
Week 7
Assignment A submission: presentation, review of theories, and analysis of existing urban development plan study.
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| Keywords | Urban Design, Urbanism |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tahl Kaminer
Tel: (0131 6)50 2319
Email: Tahl.Kaminer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Daniel Emmerson
Tel: 0131 651 5738
Email: daniel.emmerson@ed.ac.uk |
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