| Semester 2, 2023 Toowoomba On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Surveying & Built Environment |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: URP1001
Overview
Regional planning is an important tool to ensure sustainable development and land use planning of geographically larger areas, be those areas metropolitan or regional in nature. A focus will be provided in this course on non-metropolitan regions, which regional Australia is commonly understood to be, especially from a regional development policy perspective. Regional planning and development policy has a poor track record in Australia, with regional planning ranging, over time, from statutory growth development plans to ad hoc land use conflict management plans. This course introduces regional planning at an important stage in the planning major to ensure that students will comprehend the importance of the larger geographical scale, the need for greater strategic planning efforts in non-metropolitan areas the importance of integrating regional planning with national regional development policy, and the links and relationships between regional planning instruments and other planning instruments.
This course investigates the importance and nature of regional planning using a problem based approach to the course, which consists of a series of studio based lectures and a residential school. The focus is on regional planning for a non-metropolitan area. It provides students with an understanding of the different processes that not only impact but also underpin regional planning, and presents the role that political direction and state government planning instruments play in regional planning. The course also covers the use of regional planning in preservation, regional infrastructure provision and networks, and employment and demographic trends and opportunities.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Investigate the nature of regional planning and the need for regional planning, support and communicate the differing factors that underpin and/or influence regional planning;
- Compare the different elements included in different regional planning instruments and assess how those are influenced by political directions;
- Determine how demographic trends are addressed in a regional plan, using an example of a regional plan, and analyse how those trends are linked to employment;
- Examine how economic theories and factors are included in regional planning and relate how those factors are impacted by global economies;
- Map the regional infrastructure networks in a regional plan area and evaluate how such networks hamper or enhance the growth of a region;
- Source and analyse data to formulate a regional policy.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Introduction to regional planning and the fundamentals of regional planning | 15.00 |
| 2. | Regional planning, political directions, and regional planning structures/agencies | 10.00 |
| 3. | Regional planning instruments | 10.00 |
| 4. | Regional planning, demographics and employment | 15.00 |
| 5. | Regional planning, growth management and regional economies | 15.00 |
| 6. | Regional planning and the role of infrastructure | 10.00 |
| 7. | Regional planning and preservation | 10.00 |
| 8. | Data collection and analysis for regional planning | 15.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay | No | 30 | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Case 精东传媒app | No | 40 | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Presentation (ind, grp, mltmd) | No | 30 | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |