Master
2021/2022
Spatial Planning
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Prototyping Future Cities)
Area of studies:
Urban Planning
Delivered by:
Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism
When:
2 year, 1 semester
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Prototyping Future Cities
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course examines the evolving structure of cities and the way that cities can be designed and developed. It uncovers how physical, social, political and economic forces interact to shape and reshape cities over time. The course deals with core themes of contemporary urban planning: renovation and urban renewal; housing policies; transport and urban mobility. Each block of the course provides theoretical background and practical case studies for the issue in focus. The theoretical structure of the course is supported by a series of shop talks with experts, field trips and practical process-oriented workshops. The practical part of the course is comprised of a series of research and project workshops that are aimed at understanding urban issues that influence the development of selected territories in one of Moscow mikrorayons. By the end of the course students will be able to provide multidisciplinary analysis of an urban territory from various perspectives and deliver an insight into challenging urban planning issues.
Learning Objectives
- To develop a holistic view of urban processes in contemporary cities
- To provide the students with a conceptual framework to navigate the fields of urban planning and design
- To build up a toolbox of concepts, approaches and skills for personal practical work
- The lectures serve as a narrative backbone, and a reader and a ‘mind-map’ that contextualize the information and show directions to other fields of knowledge accompany them. Students will be able to discuss what cities are for, what they provide us with, and how we should think about designing them. An understanding of the basic mechanisms of the urban allows us to contextualize trends, evaluate proposals, and spot problems – both small and large. We can examine and assess the changing role of a designer in the contemporary urban world, as well as discuss tools and techniques available today for a holistic practice which is based on systemically-based thinking about the city.
- To train students in the analysis of core urban systems and identification of their challenges, opportunities and resources for further development
- The workshop is aimed to establish a bridge between the urban as a general field of inquiry and urban phenomena in daily life. Based on the diverse personal and practical experience of the students, urban phenomena are shared, compared and understood in both their specific and generic aspects.
- To familiarize students with the urban transport and mobility system
- To present the mobility aspect of urban space in all its complexity, and to show how to deal with it within the design process
- To examine the main principles, methods, and tools of TD and to demonstrate how to properly use them in practice
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A holistic understanding of urban research as a multidisciplinary field and as a process: its stages, methodologies, instruments and outcomes
- Critical assessment of contemporary urban planning, housing and mobility policies and their instruments
- Logical, cohesive and critically assessed urban projects (briefs) for a specific territory
- Students will start building the tool boxes of concepts and approaches for personal practical work
- To understand how to “design” transportation and how to do it within the “design” of the urban environment
- To understand the structure of transport systems and reasons for specific compositions of their elements
- Understanding of key urban processes connected with territory development, housing, transport and mobility, and land use, their background and foreseeable effects for different urban scales
- Usage of professional vocabulary for the topics in focus of the course
Course Contents
- 1. The basics of urban planning
- 2.1. Introduction to housing policy as a field of study
- 2.2. National housing policies, housing sector and housing markets
- 2.3. Contemporary Housing Studies
- 2.4. Large Housing Estates and Modernist Planning
- 2.5. Renovation and Urban Renewal
- 2.6. Citizen Engagement and Housing
- 2.7. Closing Seminar – Debrief and Recollection
- 3.1. Introduction to Transport Planning and Urban Mobility
- 3.2. Principles of ‘Transport Design’
- 3.3. Transport design tools
- 4. Practical Workshop
Assessment Elements
- Home assignments
- Workshop performance
- Final presentation (debates)
- “Mental map”After following the lecture series students are required to produce a “mental map” of the content of the lectures, recording, organising, and making accessible what they learned.
- Workshop 1 (research)
- Workshop 2 (project)
- Housing Module
- Urban Mobility and Transport
Interim Assessment
- 2020/2021 1st semester0.3 * “Mental map” + 0.3 * Final presentation (debates) + 0.2 * Workshop performance + 0.2 * Home assignments
- 2021/2022 1st semester0.25 * Housing Module + 0.25 * Urban Mobility and Transport + 0.25 * Workshop 1 (research) + 0.25 * Workshop 2 (project)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Anderson, J. J., & Williams, M. J. (2012). Urban Development : Strategies, Management, and Impact. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=541144
- Barbara McCann. (2013). Completing Our Streets : The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks. Island Press.
- Bliemer, M. C. J., Mulley, C., & Moutou, C. J. (2016). Handbook on Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1194858
- Corburn, J. (2009). Toward the Healthy City : People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=291802
- Hall, P. (2014). Cities of Tomorrow : An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 (Vol. Fourth edition). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=761791
- Heikkila, E. J. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. Journal of Regional Science, 53(4), 734–736. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12061
- Institute for Mobility Research (eds.) Megacity Mobility Culture: How Cities Move on in a Diverse World. Springer, 2013.
- M. Blinkin, E. Koncheva (eds.) Transport Systems of Russian Cities: Ongoing Transformations. Springer, 2016.
- McDonald, J. F. (2002). Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 3: Applied Urban Economics. Paul Cheshire and Edwin S. Mills (eds). Amsterdam: North Holland. 1999. ISBN 0 444 82138, 738 pp. Price $140.00. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.8D6F9B6C
- O’Flaherty, B. (2005). City Economics. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=282258
- Stephen Marshall. (2005). Streets and Patterns: Vol. [1st ed.]. Routledge.
- Van Audenhove, F.-J., & Baron, R. (2014). “The Future of Urban Mobility 2.0”. (cover story). Logistics & Transport Focus, 16(4), 24–31.
- Vuchic, V. R. (2017). Transportation for Livable Cities. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1592717
- Walker, J. (2012). Human Transit : How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. Washington, DC: Island Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=411021
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Boyer, K. D. (2005). Principles of Transport Economics. Transportation Journal (American Society of Transportation & Logistics Inc), 44(4), 73. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=18789624
- The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning / Ed. by Randall Crane and Rachel Weber. – Oxford, et al.: Oxford University Press, 2012. – ISBN 978-0-19-537499-5. – Режим доступа: http://proxylibrary.hse.ru:2089/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195374995.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195374995