2024
Urban Landscape
Name: Urban Landscape
Code: PAO10046O
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Landscape Architecture
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: E-learning
Presentation
The Mediterranean city as a sustainability paradigm. The search for the multifunctionality of the landscape in the urban space. New realities and urban challenges
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The aim of this course is that the students acquire various concepts, knowledge and a critical view of the concept of landscape and of the complexity that this implies, as well as some notions related to the city and its development.
It is intended to develop:
. The critical capacity of students.
. The inter-cooperation and interaction among colleagues.
. The strengthening of teamwork.
. The practice of formulating opinions.
. The practice of argumentation and communication techniques.
. Support for the fairness and the process of building common knowledge.
. The activation of existing knowledge structures.
It is intended to develop:
. The critical capacity of students.
. The inter-cooperation and interaction among colleagues.
. The strengthening of teamwork.
. The practice of formulating opinions.
. The practice of argumentation and communication techniques.
. Support for the fairness and the process of building common knowledge.
. The activation of existing knowledge structures.
Contents
Module 1 - The city as a community. The importance of the site location in the city. The Mediterranean city as a paradigm of sustainability where the relationship between landscape and urban space are the protagonists. The landscape in the well defined and compressed city.
Module 2 - The loss of unity in the city. The loss of multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space and hence its sustainability. The intellectual thought of the utopians of the nineteenth century. The Beautiful City of Olmsted. The garden cityof Ebenezer Howard. The Broadacre City of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Module 3 - The fragmented city. The technological and social changes. The new landscape of the consumer society of the metropolis (economic processes, globalization, mobility, speed). Energy issues and sustainable development. The need for sustainability in urban space. The demand of multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space.
Module 4 - The new urban realities and challenges: the reinvention of the multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space. The landscape as an urban infrastructure.
Module 2 - The loss of unity in the city. The loss of multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space and hence its sustainability. The intellectual thought of the utopians of the nineteenth century. The Beautiful City of Olmsted. The garden cityof Ebenezer Howard. The Broadacre City of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Module 3 - The fragmented city. The technological and social changes. The new landscape of the consumer society of the metropolis (economic processes, globalization, mobility, speed). Energy issues and sustainable development. The need for sustainability in urban space. The demand of multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space.
Module 4 - The new urban realities and challenges: the reinvention of the multifunctionality of the landscape in urban space. The landscape as an urban infrastructure.
Teaching Methods
The activities should focus on the developing of individual and group discussions, participation in debates and discussions in the forums, and preparation of glossaries.
The assessment should be specific to each module and focus on the different tasks required, individual tasks, team tasks, writing texts, debate, discussion and comment. The weight of the modules will be identical. That is, 25% each module. Continuous assessment results from the sum of the assessment of each of the modules.
The final evaluation will consist of a written exam with the subjects of all modules.
The assessment should be specific to each module and focus on the different tasks required, individual tasks, team tasks, writing texts, debate, discussion and comment. The weight of the modules will be identical. That is, 25% each module. Continuous assessment results from the sum of the assessment of each of the modules.
The final evaluation will consist of a written exam with the subjects of all modules.
Teaching Staff
- Rute Sousa Matos [responsible]
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