PLANNING AND POLICIES FOR THE CITY, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDSCAPE

Course details

Academic Year:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Magistrale degree

Degree Class:

LM-48 - Regional, urban and environmental planning

Duration in years:

Credits:

120

Location:

ALGHERO

Department:

ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING

Entry test:

Type of access:

locally planned access

Compulsory attendance:

Positions available (locally planned access):

Course website:

https://www.uniss.it/ugov/degree/9033

Course in brief

The course brings together a number of various disciplines (Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Design, Conservation, Sociology, Economic…), and planners need to be capable of entering into dialogue with these fields.
The European Masters Course in Planning and policies for the City, Environment and Landscape is a joint degree course offered by five Consortium partners:.
Departament de Geografia | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | España
Departament de Geografia | Universitat de Girona | España
Facoltà di Architettura | Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa | Portugal
Dipartimento di Architettura, Design e Urbanistica | Università di Sassari | Italy
Dipartimento di Progettazione e pianificazione in ambienti complessi | Università IUAV di Venezia | Italy
Students will have the possibility of studying for one semester at one of the three foreigner partner universities, of choice, and can choose to work on their thesis and/or participate in a job placement scheme in numerous other international destinations. At least one workshop with students and teachers from at least one of the Unioversity partners is mandatory.
A small additional fee is needed for the joint degree: it is used to finace the workshops and some scholarships.
Lessons can take place in the language of the hosting Country (Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese), and during the first year courses of these languages and of English are provided, for free.

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

ARTE, ARCHITETTURA, PAESAGGIO, CITTA' E CITTADINI - 3 credits - Elective Course - Optional
CITY, ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE - 18 credits - Compulsory
ECOSISTEMI E PAESAGGIO - 12 credits - Compulsory
Landscape archeology - 2 credits - Elective Course - Optional
PIANIFICAZIONE E GESTIONE DEL TERRITORIO E DEI TRASPORTI - 12 credits - Compulsory
PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS OF DECISION AIDS - 6 credits - Characterising - Compulsory
PROOJECTS AND POLICIES FOR THE LANDSCAPE - 10 credits - Compulsory
URBAN ECOLOGY - 6 credits - Elective Course - Optional

Course year: 2

FINAL TEST - 12 credits - Language/Final Examination - Compulsory
FURTHER LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE - 3 credits - Compulsory
ITALIANO - 12 credits - Elective Course - Compulsory
Planning techniques - 10 credits - Compulsory
TRAINING - 15 credits - Compulsory
Urban and territorial project - 10 credits - Compulsory

Expected Skills

Planning

Knowledge and know-how:
Deep knowledge of themes (deeper than the first degree in Planning), critical interpretation of territorial, urban, environmental and landscape dynamics.

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in choosing, applying, combining different techniques, methods, theories and knowledge in order to face urban, environmental, landscape problems
Skills in urban and landscape design and in autonomous development of plans and projects at different scales and in different sectors.

Engineering

Knowledge and know-how:
Deeper use of different tools in transportation planning and management, according to an integrated approach and by recognizing the mutual influences between settlement and mobility.
Deeper knowledge of data base and GIS

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in using and analysing data in order to analyse, plan and develop plans, projects and decision processes
Skills in monitoring, interpreting and communicating phenomena

Economics and Sociology

Knowledge and know-how:
Theoretical and pratical problems of urban management and DSS

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in case studies and their application to real contexts, also using DSS and assessment techniques.

Environmental Sciences

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic Ecology, as applied to urban and hydro-geological problems

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in autonomous research of solutions to eco-systemic problems

Other areas of knowledge

Knowledge and know-how:
Basic Environmental resources Management, by using data retrieval and international Journals.
Basic micro-Economics: phenomena that are relevant for urban and regional dynamics (localization, agglomeration, esternalities, interactions, processes)

Ability to apply knowledge and know-how:
Skills in choosing, combining abd using techniques, tools, methods and theories related to environmental issues, reclamation, remediation.
Skills in interpreting the most relevant economic issues for planning and assessing the social, economic, institutional feasibility of plans and projects, also by scenarios.

Areas for Career Opportunities

Position in a workplace:
Basic Environmental resources Management, by using data retrieval and international Journals.
Basic micro-Economics: phenomena that are relevant for urban and regional dynamics (localization, agglomeration, esternalities, interactions, processes)

Position-related skills:
Skills in choosing, combining abd using techniques, tools, methods and theories related to environmental issues, reclamation, remediation.
Skills in interpreting the most relevant economic issues for planning and assessing the social, economic, institutional feasibility of plans and projects, also by scenarios.

Career opportunities:
The degree allows the access to a second level Master, to a PhD course, or to a professional association of architects (by passing a state exam for professional qualification), in the planners list, or a job placement in some sectors:
A. as civil servant
B. as planning practitioner (coordinator of planning groups, policy designer, urban designer, spatial analyst, EIA or SEA coordinator, etc.)
Possible opportunities lie in the fields of tourism, transport, infrastructure, redevelopment, planning, conservation.

Access requirements

To be admitted is necessary a first level degree in Geography, Architecture, Planning, Agronomy, Environmental Sciences. Other degrees can be admitted by the Assessment Committee, which assesses all the CV and the portfolio.
Students who still have to achieve the degree, can be admitted sub conditione according to the enrolment call.
Applicants must have reached at least a B1 level, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in a EU language. It can be certificated, or it can be substituted by exams passed abroad. If both these requirements are not present, an exam will be necessary.
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 (page 11) and in Annex 5.2 thereof

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