| Semester 1, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Surveying & Built Environment |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: URP1001 or URP3201 or Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: GDST or MSPT or GCNS or GDNS or MENS or GCBU or MPPM
Overview
The evolution of planning theory from physical and spatial planning to a form of rational and communicative action has enormous impact on the profession of planning and the types of activities in which planners are involved. Planners need to have an understanding of how the philosophies behind planning drives policy agendas and planning activities and where urban and regional planning theory fits within broader aspects of urban theory.
This course covers the ideological approaches to broader urban theory and specific urban and regional planning theory that shape the humanistic and epistemological premises of planning and how we understand urban and regional experiences. It will examine the impact of various planning theories on the role of the planner and the implications for planning practice and urban development policy in the context of modernity, globalisation, inequality, difference and intersections within cities.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course, student should be able to:
- Apply the relationship between urban theory and modernity to global planning scenarios.
- Explain the evolution of urban theory and the main theorists who have shaped its development.
- Evaluate physical planning theory, rational, systems and procedural planning theories and apply to global planning scenarios.
- Distinguish between and explain advocacy, incremental, radical, participatory and communicative planning theories.
- Apply planning theories to epistemological and humanistic premises of planning and urban policy.
- Evaluate the challenges of urban theory and strengths and weaknesses of differing urban theories in a globalised, interconnected and urbanised world
- Demonstrate appropriate written and graphical communication skills and ability to learn from experience by reflecting on assessment tasks.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Introduction to urban theory and planning theory | 10.00 |
| 2. | Evolution of urban theory and theorists | 10.00 |
| 3. | Early post-war planning theory | 10.00 |
| 4. | Planning theory in the 1960s | 10.00 |
| 5. | Planning theory from the 1970s to the 1990s | 10.00 |
| 6. | Challenges and criticisms of urban theory | 10.00 |
| 7. | Impacts of Globalisation | 10.00 |
| 8. | Urban renaissance 鈥� Urban growth machine and urban regime theory | 10.00 |
| 9. | Cities as actors | 10.00 |
| 10. | Spatial expressions of inequality and differences | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poster Presentation | No | 25 | 1,3,5,7 |
| Essay | No | 35 | 2,4,6,7 |
| Take home examination | No | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |