APL360 Planning for sustainable urban regions
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Course responsible: Jin Xue
ECTS credits: 15
Faculty: Faculty of Landscape and Society
Teaching language: EN
(NO=norsk, EN=Engelsk)
(NO=norsk, EN=Engelsk)
Limits of class size:
35
Teaching exam periods:
This course starts in Spring parallels. This course has teaching / evaluation in Spring parallels.
Course frequency: Annually
First time: Study year 2010-2011
Preferential right:
M-BYREG, M-EIE; M LA
Course contents:
The focus of the course is primarily on planning in urban regions for sustainable development. The course will introduce urban sustainability debates and provide a critical perspective on the prevailing growth-based sustainable urban development paradigm; discuss spatial mechanisms at the urban regional level, through which planning strategies can have positive and negative impacts on both environmental and social sustainability; and stimulate creative planning thinking and approaches to improve environmental sustainability and social justice. The course consists of 15-16 lectures and a research project work in groups. The course includes four themes: (1) Introduction; (2) Land use and transport; (3) Transport planning and evaluation; and (4) Sustainability-oriented planning in urban regions. In parallel to the lectures, students will conduct a research project in groups, which leads to a report of around 25-30 pages long (ca. 8000 words).
Learning outcome:
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- debate different concepts and understandings of sustainable urban development;
- identify social and economic driving forces of urban-regional spatial development;
- explain relationships at an urban regional scale between land use, transport infrastructure and travel behavior;
- identify and describe main strategies in land use and transport infrastructure planning at an urban regional scale for environmental sustainability;
- critically assess concepts, methods and procedures in transport infrastructure planning;
- analyze the consequences to environmental and social sustainability of land use solutions and proposals on the urban regional scale;
- argue for or against certain land use, transport and housing solutions and polices based on certain values and norms;
- propose alternative solutions and proposals for land use, transport infrastructure and housing development in urban regions based on certain norms and values;
- obtain academic writing skills through preparing a research report involving analysis, critique and argumentation for or against spatial planning strategies.
Learning activities:
Lectures, seminar, project work.
Teaching support:
Each project group will be assigned a supervisor to facilitate their group work. The course responsible will normally be available via email.
Syllabus:
Introduction
Davoudi, C. (2008). Conceptions of the city-region: a critical review. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, 161(2), pp. 51-60.
Brenner, N., Marcuse, P. & Mayer, M. (2009). Cities for people, not for profit. City, 13(2):176 -184.
Theme 1: Land use and transport
Næss, P.; Peters, S.; Stefansdottir, H. & Strand, A. (2018). Causality, not just correlation: Residential location, transport rationales and travel behavior across metropolitan contexts. Journal of Transport Geography, 69, pp. 181-195.
Banister, D. (2008). The sustainable mobility paradigm. Transport Policy, 15: 73-80.
Holden, E., Banister, D., Gössling, S., Gilpin, G., & Linnerud, K. (2020). Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science, 65, 101454.
Theme 2: Transport planning and evaluation
Nicolaisen, M. S. & Driscoll, P. A. (2014). Ex-post evaluations of demand forecast accuracy: A literature review. Transport Reviews, 34(4): 540-557.
Næss, P. (2006). Cost-benefit analyses of transportation investments: neither critical nor realistic. Journal of critical realism, 5(1), 32-60.
Næss, P. & Strand, A. (2015). Traffic forecasting at ‘strategic’, ‘tactical’ and ‘operational’ level: A differentiated methodology is necessary. disP, 51(2): 41-48.
Banister D. & Hickman R. (2012). Thinking the unthinkable. Transport Policy, 29:283-293.
Theme 3: Sustainability-oriented planning in urban region
Mouratidis, K. (2018). Is compact city livable? The impact of compact versus sprawled neighbourhoods on neighbourhood satisfaction. Urban Studies, 55(11), 2408-2430.
Di Marino, M., & Lapintie, K. (2018). Exploring the concept of green infrastructure in urban landscape. Experiences from Italy, Canada and Finland. Landscape Research, 43(1), 139-149.
Xue, J. (2017). Eco-metropolis planning conditioned by the growth ideology: the case of Greater Copenhagen. Urban Design and Planning, 1-10.
Xue, J. (2021). Urban planning and degrowth: a missing dialogue. Local Environment, 1-19.
Mete, S., & Xue, J. (2020). Integrating environmental sustainability and social justice in housing development: two contrasting scenarios. Progress in Planning, 100504.
Næss, P. & Xue, J. (2016). Housing standards, environmental sustainability and social welfare. In: Næss, P. & Price, L. (eds.) Crisis System: A Critical realist and critical environmental critique of contemporary economics, pp. 130-148 London: Routledge.
Cavicchia R. & Cucca R. (2022). Urban Densification and Its Social Sustainability. In: Brears R. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_156-1https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_156-1
Prerequisites:
MA level
Recommended prerequisites:
Mandatory activity:
Lectures, seminar, project work.
A minimum of 80% attendance is required for lectures and seminars.
Assessment:
The assessment will be based on the project group assignment. The evaluation of the project group assignment will be made by an external censor. The project group assignment will be evaluated in the A-F grading scale.
Nominal workload:
In total 375 hours:
Lectures: ca. 40 hours
Project work with supervision: ca. 200 hours
Self-study (reading literature, preparing for lectures, etc.): ca. 125 hours
Entrance requirements:
Minimum Requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway (general admission)
Reduction of credits:
There is no overlap with other courses.
Type of course:
100 hours
Examiner:
The external censor evaluates and grades the project group assignments. A meeting will be organized where the censor gives oral feedback to the project groups attending the meeting. Attendance in the meeting is not obligatory.
Examination details: Group task: Letter grades