URBAN AND LANDASCAPE PLANNING.

Course details

Academic Year:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

DEGREE COURSE

Degree Class:

L-21 - Class of first degrees in Town, Regional and Environmental Planning

Duration in years:

Credits:

180

Location:

ALGHERO

Department:

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING

Entry test:

Yes

Type of access:

locally planned access

Compulsory attendance:

Positions available (locally planned access):

150

Course website:

https://architettura.aho.uniss.it/it/didattica/corso-di-laurea-urbanisti...

Course in brief

At the end of the degree course some tools should have been acquired to represent, interpret and manage processes of town, landscape and environment transformation.
Contents of Planning and Urban Design are linked with bases of Acrhitecture, History, Ecology, Drawings, Mathematics, Statistics, Sociology, and Economy.

List of Courses

The detailed information about the classes to be held during the current academic year are already available of the official page; but the detailed information (professor, course syllabus, bibliography, etc.) about the courses which will be held during the academic years following the first one (2nd, 3rd year, etc.) will be made available during the year when the course will be held (1st year of the 2016-2017 academic year is already available; 2nd year courses will be uploaded during the 2017-2018 academic year; 3rd year courses will be uploaded during the 2018-2019 academic year; etc.).
For this reason, the details about the courses to be held during the years following the current academic year may be viewed by searching the name of the courses in the SEARCH TEACHING ACTIVITIES engine or by browsing through the syllabus of the first year of matriculation.
Important information for Erasmus students: if you are an Erasmus student and you wish to view all available courses, use the SEARCH TEACHING ACTIVITIES engine to search the desired courses.

Course year: 1

ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary - Compulsory
CITY AND TERRITORY - 9 credits - Compulsory
COMPUTER INSTRUMENTS - 6 credits - Basic - Compulsory
ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE - 4 credits - Elective Course - Optional
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY - 12 credits - Compulsory
PEDOLOGIA APPLICATA ALLA RICERCA ARCHEOLOGICA E ALLA PIANIFICAZIONE - 6 credits - Elective Course - Optional
Project and context - 12 credits - Compulsory
TEORIE E STRUMENTI DELL'URBANISTICA - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
URBAN PROJECT - 12 credits - Compulsory

Course year: 2

ECONOMIA E VALUTAZIONE - 12 credits - Compulsory
LADSCAPE DESIGN - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
Landscape ecology - 9 credits - Compulsory
PROJECT AND ENVIRONMENT - 12 credits - Compulsory
SOIL SCIENCES - 6 credits - Basic - Compulsory
SPATIAL PLANNING - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
TERITORIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - 6 credits - Basic - Compulsory

Course year: 3

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST - 3 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
FINAL TEST - 9 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
Human Sciences - 10 credits - Compulsory
OPTIONAL CREDITS - 12 credits - Elective Course - Compulsory
PLAN AND PROJECT - 12 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 8 credits - Compulsory
Transport - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory

Expected Skills

Mathematics, Information Technology and Statistics

Knowledge and know-how:
Comprehension of languages, concepts and basic algebra, differential calculus, probabilities, information technology.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in modeling and solving problems with Mathematics.
Skills in designing algorithms, spreadsheets, data base.

Mapping and Drawings

Knowledge and know-how:
Reading, filtering, mapping cartographic data and using GIS
Representing plans and projects; theories, methods, techniques and tools of representation at different scales

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in territorial data analisys using layers and attributes
Skills in combining, choosing, using different languages, techniques, methods and tools to represent phenomena, plans, projects in different phases and scales.
Skills in applying the different International rules for representing phenomena, plans and projects.

Architecture and Engineering

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic knowledge of the planning and policies evolution, of their tools, scales, and sectors, by comparing tha national and international context.
Theories, tools and techniques, System dynamics applied to town, landscape, territory, transportation and environment.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in developing plans oriented to participatory approaches and environmental sustainability, by applying tools, techniques and theories at the different scales and contexts during the studio activities.

Ecology, Geology and Geography

Knowledge and know-how:
Comprehension of ecological issues in Planning, functionings of landscape systems (diversity, processes, management).

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in choosing and using the most adequate methods, theories, tools in order to assess diversity and to manage natural systems, understanding limits of methods and techniques.

Economics, Sociology and Laws

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic Economics, Sociology, Assessment and Laws: basic micro-economy, economic phenomena relevant for urban and regional dynamics (localization, agglomeration, esternalities, interactions, processes)
Tools to interpret the society and some urban phenomena: data, statistics

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in assessing the social, economic, institutional feasibility of plans and projects

Other areas of knowledge

Knowledge and know-how:
Comprehension of the relationship between environment and Public Health
Reaading historical maps and settlements, their dynamics of transformation.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in predicting, assessing and contrastinng environmental issues that affect the Public Health
Skills in analysing, interpretino and assessing landscapes in their historical aspects.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Position in a workplace:
Comprehension of the relationship between environment and Public Health
Reaading historical maps and settlements, their dynamics of transformation

Position-related skills:
Skills in predicting, assessing and contrastinng environmental issues that affect the Public Health
Skills in analysing, interpretino and assessing landscapes in their historical aspects.

Career opportunities:
The degree allows the enrolment in a master course, or the access to a professional association of architects (by passing a state exam for professional qualification), in the jr. planners list, or a job placement in some sectors:
A. as civil servants
B. as planning practitioners (territorial analyses, EIA, SEA)

Access requirements

To be admitted is sufficient a secondary School diploma.
Applicants must attend an introductory 10-day course-unit "Città, territorio: analisi, dinamica, governo" that will take place in September. Students will be evaluated on the basis of their school leaving certificate, their CV and the introductory course-unit examination. This is weighted for 60% of the final marks, while 40% is given by the CV and the high School diploma: to be admitted, is necessary to reach at least a 60/100 marks.
Each year places are reserved for students from outside Europe.
Schedule is established each year

Study Programme Reference Persons

Reference Professors:

Tutors:

Fees

Fees are governed by a single set of rules applicable to all courses, as articulated in the
Regolamento Carriere of the University of Sassari, section “Tasse e contributi universitari“

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