Diploma in Architect Engineer

Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleURBANISM III
Course Unit CodeAPX423
Course Unit DetailsInt.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) -
Number of ECTS credits allocated5
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Learn how to integrate new functions in a specific area of Cyprus as part of a wider regeneration of functional and morphological features that make up the existing character and appearance of the area.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the overall growth of Nicosia and to make conceptual proposals for alternative growth strategies. Expected to think ahead into the future and to make assumptions concerning socio-cultural and political change, based on understanding of the current trends: e.g. what is the future work environment going to be like? How will shopping trends evolve? etc…
  3. Describe and design the evolution of proposal over time, identifying at least 3 key phases of development, starting from existing conditions.
  4. Emphasize on the overriding importance of sustainability while taking into consideration all three aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental, the so-called “triple bottom line”).
  5. List the general Cypriot Urban Planning system and learn basic policies and regulations of the Local Plans.
  6. Learn how the economy works, and how the real estate market (with its particular laws and quirks) falls within it.
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesAPX421Co-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
Course Contents
Sustainable urban planning continues as the basic core topic of the third urbanism course. It examines how planning practice in Cyprus and the European Union affects the environmental capacity and quality of cities or buildings. Planning policy and spatial planning regulation could be understood and evaluated through the study of open spaces and building’s architectural character, use and performance. The course intends to build a link between planning and architectural practice. Issues of sustainable urban mobility, as well as urban and land economics are included as an additional course content. The associated project aims teaching students to argue critically on planning practice and experiment on feasibility, social acceptance and environmental quality of interventions in the built environment.
Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
    No specific textbook required
References
  • Creating Successful Materplans – A guide to clients, CABE 2004
  • Urban design compendium - volume 1, English partnerships, 2003
  • Urban design compendium – volume 2, English partnerships 2007
  • Privately owned public spaces – the New York city experience, Kerold S. Kayden, Then New York city department of city planning, 2000
  • Big Boxed reused, Julia Christensen, MIT press, 2008
  • Reinventing the workplace, John Worthington, Architectural press, 2006
  • Urban form for a sustainable future – how sustainable is Distributed working in the Networked city (article), journal of green buildings, volume 4 number 3
  • Managing the brief for better design, Alastair Blyth, John Worthington, Routledge, 2010
  • Education and creativity, Simon Foxell and William Mitchell for the ‘Edge Debate’, black dog publishing 2008
  • Work and the city, Frank Duffy for the ‘Edge Debate’, black dog publishing, 2008
  • The city as a developer, David Perry and Wim Weiwel, MESarpe, 2005
  • Universities and their Cities – collaborations and conflicts, john Worthington, conference paper, 2009 (article)
  • Responsive environments – Bentley et al
  • Public Spaces– Urban spaces; the dimension of Urban design – Mathew Carmona, Tim Heath, Tamer Oc, Ateve Tiesdell
  • Αραβαντινός Αθανάσιος, Κοσμάκη Πολυξένη, 1988, «Υπαίθριοι χώροι στην πόλη, Θέματα ανάλυσης και πολεοδομικής οργάνωσης αστικών ελεύθερων χώρων και πρασίνου», Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο, Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων – Τομέας ΙΙ, Αθήνα
  • Βλαστός Θάνος, 2003, «Μια διαφορετική δημόσια συγκοινωνία σε μια διαφορετική πόλη», Αναπτυξιακή Εταιρεία Δήμου Αθηναίων, ISBN 960-87670-0-8
  • Γοσποδίνη Άσπα, Μπεριάτος Ηλίας, 2006, «Τα νέα Αστικά Τοπία και η Ελληνική Πόλη», Εκδόσεις Κριτική, Επιστημονική Βιβλιοθήκη, ISBN 960-218-471-X
  • Faar, Douglas, (2007) Sustainable Urbanism, New Jersey: Wiley
  • WONG, CECILIA, (2007) INDICATORS FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING, Routledge: London
  • JENKINS, ERIC, (2008) TO SCALE.ONE HUNDRED URBAN PLANS, USA: ROUTLEDGE
  • Γοσποδίνη Α., Μπεριάτος Ε., (2006) ΝΕΑ ΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΤΟΠΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΗ, Αθήνα: Κριτική.
  • RE-USING REDUNDANT BUILDINGS. 1987, LONDON, HER MAJESTY"S STATIONERY
  • CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING FAGENCE MICHAEL 1977, OXFORD, PERGAMON PRESS
Planned learning activities and teaching methodsThe BACULT15 includes two hours a week of studio design, in the form of discussion / correction (Instructor: Georgia Loizou) and another two hours of taught theory as lectures to the entire class (teachers: Michael Kyriakidis, Pavlos Loizou).
The taught part of the course is delivered to students by means of lectures, conducted by electronic presentations. Lecture notes and pictures are given to students in electronic form.
Assessment methods and criteria
Class participation10%
Written examination30%
Final assignment60%
Language of instructionGreek
Work placement(s)NO

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