2024

Characterization and Spatial Planning

Name: Characterization and Spatial Planning
Code: PAO13347L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Landscape and Planning Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Provide the students with the basic concepts related with the process of landscape assessment. Integration in the social context.
Provide students with the knowledge and tools necessary to an integrated approach in spatial planning processes.
The emphasis is given to the importance of taken into account the different actors in the process. Interdisciplinary is taken as a first step to a successful process, involving several disciplines (landscape architecture, architecture, engineering (bioengineer, civil, environment, ...), geography, economy, sociology,...), according to the paradigm of sustainability.

Contents

Part I
Concept of Landscape
The nature of spatial information
Perception of the nature of the landscape: Scale, structure and function:
Landscape assessment:
- the analytical, synthetic and hierarchical perspectives. the landscape as a complex object.
The practice of landscape assessment. Material and circumstantial elements Climatology, Morphology Geology, Soil, Hydrology, Ecology
Part II
1. Spatial planning process:
1.1. Introduction to theories and their evolution;
1.2. Basic concepts;
1.3. Planning System in Portugal;
1.4. Public participation in Spatial planning.
2. Case studies in protected areas. Presentation of plans at different levels.
3. Evaluation and public decision: notions of Evaluation. Multicriteira decision aid methodology.
4. Potentialities and constraints for the future of spatial planning in Portugal.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical presentations supported by documents e trough the analysis of practical study cases.
Evaluation:
Two written test: 50%
Two practical projects of concept application: 50%

Teaching Staff