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Course code: IAS20081o17Semester: 2017/2018 summer
Name: Shaping of the Urban Landscape
Major: Landscape Architecture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Aleksandra Lis, dr inż. arch. Anna Bocheńska-Skałecka, dr inż. arch.Magdalena Zienowicz, dr inż. Ewa Walter mgr inż. arch. kraj. Karolina
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person: mgr inż. arch. kraj. Karolina Zalewska
Learning outcomes: Student: knows elementary rules of spatial, functional and technical city structure, knows principle of city development and city functioning forms characteristic of good public space according to various objects knows methods and technics od studies and analysis relevant to programming and designing urban public spaces Skills Student: analyses urban space taking into account environmental, cultural, social, technical and economic conditions in various scales; programs and designs urban open spaces relating used solutions to existing space in systemic way acquires information relevant to project task from various sources
Competences: Student: is aware of systemic space functioning and results of designing operations in urban structure is aware of user’s role in the process of designing, implementing and use of space; is able to work in a group on a designing task in effective way
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Course content: CStudent learns basic rules of shaping in various scale with special regard to strategic operations in field of activation of public spaces. City – notions. Transformations in urban structure. Space egality rules. Social structure of a town. Indexes of exploitation of urban space. Rules of urban development. Houses estates and open spaces in town. Public spaces – features and design rules. Urban plazas. Parks. Pocket parks. Campuses. Water in town: esthetic and utilitarian aspects, pro-ecological usage of water in urban space. Urban transport – design problems. Solution of transport problem – in the past and today. Town borders. Suburbs. Urban sprawl. Social participation i urban space shaping.
Recommended literature: Carmona M., Heath T., Taner O., Tiesdell S., 2003: Public Places – Urban Places. The Dimensions of Urban Design. Oxford: Architectural Press Cooper Marcus C.C, Francis C, 1998: People places : design guidelines for urban open space. New York : John Wiley & Sons. Gehl J., 1987: Life between buildings: Using public space. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Assessment methods: credit classes evaluation of tasks and presentations exam
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