2024
Cities and Urban Heritages
Name: Cities and Urban Heritages
Code: HIS14607L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
The main focus of the UC is to highlight the historical importance of cities in the long time and in present day societies and thereby underline the relevance of urban heritage and its contribution to sustainable urban communities.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Objectives of knowledge and understanding
- Concepts and topics related to Cultural Heritage (PC ), tangible and intangible, and their articulations with the urban dynamics.
-Concepts, theories, techniques and strategies for intervention within the Cultural Heritage in urban areas.
- Instruments and guiding texts and normative, national and international on historic cities and their urban heritage.
2. Intellectual and professional skills
- Generic identification of theories and analysis models that support the knowledge in the field of Cultural Heritage.
- Development of cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, applied to Cultural Heritage, namely through case studies related to the object of the UC.
- Development of the capacity of analysis and interpretation in specific situations of heritage heritage processes.
- Communicate in a clear, coherent and integrated way within multidisciplinary teams.
- Concepts and topics related to Cultural Heritage (PC ), tangible and intangible, and their articulations with the urban dynamics.
-Concepts, theories, techniques and strategies for intervention within the Cultural Heritage in urban areas.
- Instruments and guiding texts and normative, national and international on historic cities and their urban heritage.
2. Intellectual and professional skills
- Generic identification of theories and analysis models that support the knowledge in the field of Cultural Heritage.
- Development of cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, applied to Cultural Heritage, namely through case studies related to the object of the UC.
- Development of the capacity of analysis and interpretation in specific situations of heritage heritage processes.
- Communicate in a clear, coherent and integrated way within multidisciplinary teams.
Contents
Introduction: articulation and complementarity of the approach of this UC with the other UCs of Cultural Heritage of the cDegree.
2. Critical appreciation of concepts - cities, urbanization, urbanism, urban heritage, historic urban landscape.
3. Cities and urban transformations - a perspective in long time. Europe and the world.
5. Urban heritage - a heritage and a future for cities. Memory, identity and sustainability.
6. Conventions, charters and recommendations - doctrinal principles and standards on cities, urban life, urban heritage and historic urban landscapes
7. Processes of attribution of value within the urban heritage and historic urban landscapes. Analysis of national and international cases.
2. Critical appreciation of concepts - cities, urbanization, urbanism, urban heritage, historic urban landscape.
3. Cities and urban transformations - a perspective in long time. Europe and the world.
5. Urban heritage - a heritage and a future for cities. Memory, identity and sustainability.
6. Conventions, charters and recommendations - doctrinal principles and standards on cities, urban life, urban heritage and historic urban landscapes
7. Processes of attribution of value within the urban heritage and historic urban landscapes. Analysis of national and international cases.
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodology: theoretical and practical sessions of content exposure, text analysis and presentation of work by students. The materials and resources used in classes will be made available on the moodle platform of the University.
The teacher will monitor the work that students must do outside the TP sessions, in specific time for this purpose.
Continuous assessment:
1. individual research work, based on a topic proposed by the student, after assessment and acceptance by the teacher (40%); oral presentation of the same work (20%). Its preparation will be accompanied in tutorials. 2. Attendance (40%).
Exam:
Written exam (100%). In the cases that the professor considers opportune, the written exam can be seconded by oral evaluation (100%). In
this case: (100%+100%)/2.
The teacher will monitor the work that students must do outside the TP sessions, in specific time for this purpose.
Continuous assessment:
1. individual research work, based on a topic proposed by the student, after assessment and acceptance by the teacher (40%); oral presentation of the same work (20%). Its preparation will be accompanied in tutorials. 2. Attendance (40%).
Exam:
Written exam (100%). In the cases that the professor considers opportune, the written exam can be seconded by oral evaluation (100%). In
this case: (100%+100%)/2.
