Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | URBANISM III | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | APX423 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) - | ||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | APX421 | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
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. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The 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. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |