3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018397EER for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Geography
- Educational team
- Michael Ryckewaert
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
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21 contact hours Lecture
27 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
‘History of Urban Design' deals with the evolution of urban form and the development of the discipline of urban design since the Classical Antiquity untill the first half of the 20th century. The focus is on developments in the Western world. In addition the city of Brussels is dealt with in greater detail.
These development are taught through a series of cases on urban form and urban design that are exemplary for:
- various subperiods and different approaches
- the work of important designers, urbanists or other key persons
The course treats a number of key texts that are assembled in a reader that the student has to read at home (Edmund Bacon, Design of cities, Spiro Kostoff, The city shaped, The city assembled, C. Argan, E.A. Morris, Françoise Choay, Ed Taverne, Irmin Visser, Stedebouw, Peter Hall, Cities of tomorrow, …)
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Powerpoint presentations of lectures
Digital course material (Required) : Reader with an annotated selection of texts supporting the lectures
- Additional info
The teacher is availlable for questions during and after lectures, via e-mail or on appointment during office hours.
- Learning Outcomes
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Goals
- Understand the different approaches in urban design through time and and be able to identify the most important concepts and spatial principles
- Be able to connect and identify links between different approaches
- Know the most important personalities and understand their contribution to the discipline of urban design, as well as the most important projects they designed, built or commissioned
- To be able to situate and identify projects and plans from various periods, and highlight their most important elements and spatial concepts
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 90% of the final mark.
SELF Report determines 10% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 90% of the final mark.
Note: Oral exam with written preparation
Within the SELF Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Field visit report
with a relative weight of 2
which comprises 10% of the final mark.
Note: Short report of a field visit to an urban ensemble in Brussels
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The evaluation consist of an oral exam (90%) and a small report from a site visit to an urban ensemble in Brussels (10%).
Partial marks for the report, if the student obtains at least half of the score for this part, are transferred to the second session. Students may not relinquish partial marks.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor sociale geografie (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Geography: Standard track
Master of Urban Studies: Standard track
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)