Postgraduate Course: Urban Project (ARCH11204)
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 | 40 |
Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | This course introduces students to the process of formulating an urban project within a specific urban context and framework, with an emphasis on researching and identifying issues with which to engage and develop a set of urban strategies and urban designs involving primarily local 'actors' and relevant publics, while relating to the specific social, economic, and environmental context. Methods and techniques of investigation, research and analysis are introduced and developed, as well as practice-related skills and knowledge. Students are expected to develop team working competencies, and present group work as well as individual reflective pieces for final assessment.
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 provide students with a knowledge of the tools and methods by which to develop, plan and initiate multi-disciplinary urban projects, whether on a strategic or design scale.
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
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Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 12,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 24,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
356 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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No Exam Information |
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. Application of theories and practices
The application of the knowledge gained in the initiation a project, from conceptual analysis to actual strategic involvement.
3. 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.
4. 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
Learning Outcomes Assessed
Critical knowledge and understanding 25%
- assessed in Assignment 1
Project Analysis Review & Report
Application of theories and practices 25%
- assessed in Assignment 2
Project Presentation and Report
Understanding of concepts and theories 25%
- assessed in Assignment 1
Project Analysis Review & Report
Communication of knowledge 25%
- assessed in Assignment 2
Project Presentation and Report
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Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
Not entered |
Syllabus |
The course will be delivered as follows:
Weeks 1 - 5
Background Research, Analysis, & Project Conception
Project introduction, contextual research reading, tutorials and lectures. Identification of specific project theme.
Week 6
Interim review of analysis and project proposal
Weeks 7 - 11
Project Development, Realisation and Presentation
Project development, via workshops tutorials etc. Final project presentation.
End of Semester 2
Full project report and proposal submission
Draft Timetable
Week 1: Introduction, readings, discussion.
Week 2: site visit, pre-arranged meetings on site, seminar, lecture.
Week 3: fieldwork, initial analysis (group work) tutorials, seminar.
Week 4: external visit, seminar.
Week 5: fieldwork, definitive analysis tutorials, lecture, seminar.
Week 6: Assignment 1: review (of analysis) & conclusions.
Week 7: project development workshop; seminar, lecture.
Week 8: initial project proposals & tutorials.
Week 9: project proposals tutorials.
Week 10: review (of project proposals); report workshop.
Week 11: organising and completing the report tutorials; concluding discussion.
Week 12: Assignment 2: Project Presentation & Report Submission.
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Transferable skills |
Urban analysis, multidisciplinary work, team work, formulating and communicating an urban project. |
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).
Tahl Kaminer, Heidi Sohn & Miguel R. Duran (eds), Urban Asymmetries: Studies and Projects on Neoliberal Urbanization (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2011).
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).
Neil Smith, ¿The Evolution of Gentrification¿, in Berg, J.J., Kaminer, T., Schoonderbeek, M., Zonneveld, J. [eds.], Houses in Transformation: Interventions in European Gentrification, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008, pp. 15-25.
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 |
Studio-based team work, fieldwork on location, teaching seminars, lectures in studio/lecture hall/seminar room. |
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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