3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4019203DNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
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

21 contact hours Lecture
27 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course deals with the recent development of the discipline of urban design. The course outlines the different schools of thought and approaches applied to deal with the 'permanent ' crisis of the 20-21st century city. This crisis is, among other things, outlined through a discussion of the current urban problems of the Brussels metropolitan area. In addition, the course deals with approaches that call for urban regeneration with a concern for tradition and context, as opposed to approaches that embrace the modern, fluid, dispersed and diffuse urban reality of the late 20th and early 21st century. In this reality nodes of infrastructure are new foci of urbanity. The wider territory and regional and landscape design start to play an important role in dealing with this urban reality.  Finally, the European practice of urban design, ' le projet urbain ' or the ' proyecto urbano ' as it is named in France and Spain respectively, is put on the map. Here, also the achievements of the current practice of urban renewal in Flanders is being treated, as it is ever more often the field of action of internationally renowned urban planners.

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Powerpoint slides of lectures
Digital course material (Required) : Reading package
Additional info

Study materials

Powerpoint presentations of the courses

Reader

Learning Outcomes

Learning results

- the student is able to identify the most important spatial principles and concepts of the various appraoches in urban design in response to the crisis of the contemporary city,

- the student is able to draw links between the various approaches,

- the student knows the most important personalities and understands their contribution to the discipline of urban design.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% 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 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

None

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 Architectural Engineering: Standaard traject (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)