Urban Design – An Overview

toward a better understanding of urban planning and design

What you’ll learn
This course expand knowledge in Urban Design Contexts, issues and solutions
Explains principles and elements of Urban Design
To encourage participants to analyse social and spatial relationships in planning
The importance of Urban Design to create placemaking and imageability
Helps to understand the role of urban design for liveability
Requirements
Interest towards city planning
Description
This course will give you an introduction to URBAN DESIGN. The course is intended for students who are new to URBAN DESIGN. The content promotes positive learning, and the course lectures, notes, and videos will help you understand planning and design better. It lays the groundwork for all future urban studies. This course delves into key substantive areas and concepts in urban and regional planning. By better understanding how and where we choose to live, we can begin to address global, regional, and local issues of unsustainable development priorities. This course provides a broad overview of social science theories and analysis methods for investigating how people, communities, and governments plan cities.Uses theories and methods from a variety of social science disciplines. This course also introduces students to the scientific study of ecosystems, with a focus on how natural ecological systems function, how human activities affect these systems, and how constraints on these systems affect society.The course will provide the following learning outcomes:· Understanding the basics of Urban Design· The role of Urban Design in Neighborhood Development· Key framework for Sustainable neighborhood panning· A recent trends in New Urbanism· Key developments, innovations and debates in Urban Planning and Design.· Exploring the role and impact of Urban DesignEach module that follows will be a self-contained graphical presentation of a group of ideas and visuals.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What is Urban Design?

Lecture 2 Elements of Urban Design?

Section 2: Theories on Urban Design

Lecture 3 Contemporary Urban Design Movements

Lecture 4 Principles of Urban Design?

Section 3: Urban Data Analysis

Lecture 5 Types of Tools for Data Analysis

Lecture 6 Measuring the Qualities of Urban Design?

Section 4: Exploring the Space Syntax: an Urban Analysis Tool

Lecture 7 An Intro to Space Syntax analysis

Lecture 8 Integration and Connectivity analysis

Lecture 9 Visibility Graph Analysis

Section 5: Urban Design: Overview

Lecture 10 Urban Design V/s Architecture

Lecture 11 A guide to Sustainable Neighborhood Planning

Lecture 12 Trends in Urban Planning and Design

Section 6: Urban Design Project Case Studies

Lecture 13 Public Space: Urban Design Projects

Lecture 14 3 case studies exploring eco-design

Urban Designers, Urban Planners, Architects, Politicians, Social activists and students of architecture and urban design