Urban Design Studies (ABPL20037)

Urban design is defined as the shaping of public space, distinguished from urban planning by its focus on urban form, from landscape architecture by its focus on built form and from architecture by its focus on public space. This subject will introduce and critically analyse a broad range of concepts, ideas and theories that frame practices of urban design in a contemporary global context.
Project types will include:

• new contemporary public spaces
• future cities
• eco-cities
• transport-oriented designand infrastructure projects
• formal and informal settlements.

Studies of urban design process will include:

• model making
• short film production
• some design techniques

Critiques will include:

• perception and reinterpretation of urban form
• social equity
• environmental sustainability and resilience
• urban density and intensity
• liveability and safety
• politics and economics and city structure