ARC 5310 Urban Design and Planning

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1 ARC 5310 Urban Design and Planning nd Term Instructor: Prof Laurence Liauw Teaching Assistant: -- Iris Zhou Danxi / Mo Kar Him Time: Mon 9:30 am 12:15 pm Venue: ELB 203 Course Website: DESCRIPTION This course will explore ideas on urban design and principles of city planning. From the early settlements to the latest megacities, humans have demarcated private (local) territories yet share resources within wider (global) communities. Cities are assemblages of these human needs, becoming repositories of civilization in history, and nowadays mass consumers of natural resources. For L. Wirth, a city is "a relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals." For Mumford, a city is a "point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community." For Le Corbusier, the city, like the house is a machine for living. For Koolhaas, the death of the city as we knew it is a chance for a new urbanism. Due to their complexity and influence on our spatial, social, economical, political and cultural patterns, cities are difficult to comprehend but critically important for architects to engage in shaping them. As architecture comes into being within urban contexts, the planning and design of spaces at the scale of the city and its corresponding impact on our environment becomes a discipline of its own. Some cities are by design and the others by default, some are built instantly whilst others grow organically. An extensive body of knowledge in texts about urbanism, city planning, urban design and urban culture exists for students to learn, as future architectural professionals working in the field. The fundamental urban relationships between architecture and the city will be introduced, debated and translated into designs for our immediate environment of Hong Kong and Mainland China. Critical issues on urban ideals, urban form, evolution, city planning, urban governance, institutions, theory, context, landscape, morphology, urban processes, place-making, types, scale, identity, public space, heritage, sustainability and emergence will be discussed and used as a platform to rethink our city. Lectures and assignments will be combined with guest planning professionals as speakers, so that students will learn both theory and practice. The emerging discipline of urban design and urbanism with its roots in architecture has been challenging city planning as an alternative to shaping and developing our cities. Different theories of planning and urban design are outlined, researched and adapted to current issues in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Urbanization, generic cities, the production of space, political planning, architectural culture and urban evolution will provide a contextual framework for us to (re)vision our future environments in a critical and sustainable manner. OBJECTIVES to facilitate students awareness of the critical significance of urban design and planning in the architectural discipline to outline to students principles of planning theory and their impact on the emerging discipline of urban design in architecture to equip students with a critical understanding of urban issues and their corresponding implication on our immediate environment to introduce to students differences of planning principles in Hong Kong and Mainland China through professional consultation to provide students an opportunity to apply theoretical urban design concepts within the planning contexts of both Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta.

2 ASSESSMENT SCHEME Assignment 1 : Book Reading Essay / Research Study 25% Total grade (class reading-based study, with assigned research and method) Assignment 2 : Book Reading Essay / Research Study 25% Total grade (class reading-based study, with assigned research and method) Assignment 3 : Question & Answer Paper 15% Total grade (class-based study, local China emphasis with assigned focus and class participation) Assignment 4 : Urban Design Excercise 35% Total grade (development upon Assignments 1-3 into relevant urban design paper & proposal, publication or exhibition work, team work of 5 students each group) Compulsory handin by all students of specified format A3 report booklet to include all coursework and assignments to satisfactory standard by end of term deadline (booklet is requirement to pass this subject) COURSE FORMAT Class sessions will center on thematic lectures, invited professional consultation, after which the class will split into groups around urban themes and produce teamwork concept designs. The emphasis will be on knowledge accrual, independent learning by research, understanding professional practice, and teamwork application of theory to design. Workshops and research visits to specific environments may be made for research inquiry about urban design issues relevant to class focus. Professional guest speakers will be invited to share their expertise on urban design and planning. Teams will present their research and design works in the class as arranged. Course content produced may be selected for publication or exhibition at later date with student participation required. SCHEDULE I. 11/1/10 Lecture: The Idea of The City II. 18/1/10 Lecture: The Planning of The City [Assignment 1] III. 25/1/10 Lecture: The Modern City IV. 1/2/10 Lecture: The Contemporary City [Assignment 2] V 08/2/10 Lecture: The Chinese City VI. 15/2/10 No Class Chinese New Year Holidays VII. 22/2/10 Guest Lecture / Visit : HK Planning Department [handout Assignment 4] VIII. 1/3/10 Guest Lecture / Field Trip : Shenzhen Planning Bureau IX. 08/3/10 Guest Lecture : HK professional planning practice X. 15/3/10 Guest Lecture : Shenzhen professional planning practice [Assignment 3] XI. 22/3/10 Tutorial Group : Task 1 deliverables XII. 29/3/10 Tutorial Group : Task 2 deliverables XIII. 5/4/10 Make up Class Easter Holidays / Tutorial Group : Task 3 deliverables XIV 12/4/10 Optional Tutorial by arrangement XV. 19/4/10 No Class--M. Arch I Review XVI. 30/4/10 Submission of Final Project / A3 Booklet [Assignment 4]

3 LECTURES I. The Idea of The City Ideal Cities Urban Diagram City Shaped - Urban Form Historical Evolution Loci, Types, Image Polis, Urbs, Civitas, II. The Planning of The City Urban Growth City Plans Technical Formation Density of Cities Human Activities - Public Governance Space-Time in planning III. Lecture: The Modern City Urbanism Urban Theory Urban Design and City Design Future Cities Tabula Rasa and Context City and Landscape IV. Lecture: The Contemporary City Urban Process Bigness and Megacities New Urbanism Sustainability Urban Regeneration and public space Emergence Evolution Paradigm V. Lecture: The Chinese City Urbanization Political Economy Utopia and Peoples City Density and Environment Post-Industrialization and Generic Cities Tabula Rasa and Urban Evolution VII. VIII. IX. Guest Lecture / Visit : HK Planning Department Guest Lecture / Field Trip : Shenzhen Planning Bureau Guest Lecture : HK professional planning practice X. Guest Lecture : Shenzhen professional planning practice GROUPWORK URBAN DESIGN THEMES (10 teams of max 5 students each) 1. Centre - Place 2. Border - Edge 3. Landscape - Sustainability 4. Infrastructure - Mobility 5. Architecture - Typology

4 FIELD TRIP (please check the boxes) [ ] Yes [ ] Local; [ ] Overseas Date(s): To be provided later. Destination(s): Hong Kong / Shenzhen [ ] No SAME COURSE OFFERED BEFORE (student has taken the same course is not allowed to retake) (please check the boxes) [ ] Yes Offer year [ ] Term [ ] Course code [ ] [ ] No IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS: Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work. Refer to A statement from students that they are aware of these policies, regulations and guidelines is required. REFERENCES 1. Rykwert, Joseph, The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. (MIT Press, 1988) 2. Bacon, Edmund N, Design of Cities, (MIT Press, 1969) 3. Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meaning Through History, (Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1991) 4. Kostof, Spiro, The City Assembled: the elements of urban form through history, (London, Thames & Hudson, 1992) 5. Giedion, Siegfried, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition ( Harvard University Press 2008 ) 6. Morris, Anthony E. J. History of Urban Form. (London, George Godwin, 1979) 7. Morris, A.E.J., History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolutions, (Longman Scientific & Technical, 1994) 8. Corbusier, Le. The City of To-morrow and Its Planning. New York, NY: Dover, Howard, Ebenezer. "Introduction," and "The Town-Country Magnet." In Garden Cities of To-Morrow. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965) 10. Mumford, Lewis, The Culture of Cities, (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1938) 11. Hall, Peter, Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, (Oxford : Blackwell, 1988) 12. Wirth, Louis, Urbanism as a Way of Life (American Journal of Sociology, 1938) 13. Lynch, Kevin, A Theory of Good City Form. (MIT Press, 1984) 14. Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960) 15. Rowe, Colin, Collage City, (MIT Press, 1978) 16. Rossi, Aldo, The Architecture of the City, (MIT Press, 1984) 17. Alexander, Christopher, A pattern language : towns, buildings, construction, (Oxford University Press, 1977)

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