Course Details

1. Define Town planning and techniques used
2. State the architectural creations that satisfy visual and technical requirements
3. Identify the problems that are connected with the natural abilities of the buildings, the technologies and the constructional functions in order to put comfort and environmental friendly materials
4. Obtain the technical ability to satisfy the requirements of those who use them, in respect with the financial constraints and building regulations.
5. Illustrate the issues in urban planning that relate to improved living conditions.

Research dimensions of town planning

Space understanding and town plan analysis

Characteristics, problems and needs of an area and its future development perspectives

Town planning issues and holistic research organization

Alternative planning scenarios

Resemblance parameters and diversification of different channels of creativity

Planning variations and alternative solutions

Group and survey of different planning proposals

Setting the criteria and selecting the appropriate planning methodology and the right alternative solutions

Form the town planning procedure

Handle the harmonic incorporation of a built-up area in the natural environment

Taking into consideration the methods of improvement of the living conditions of the inhabitants (open air spaces, green areas, pedestrian streets, cycling roads public means of transportation etc.)

• Adam Ritchie – Randall Thomas, 2003, “Sustainable Urban Design: An environmental approach”, Spon Press
• Douglas Farr, 2008, “Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with nature”, Wiley
• Καλβίνο Ίταλο, 2004, «Οι αόρατες πόλεις», Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Εικοστός Αιώνας,
• Losantos Agata, 2008, “Urban Landscape”, FKG
• Mite Jenks – Nicola Dempsey, 2005, “Future forms and design for sustainable cities”, Architectural Press
• The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 63-2008, “Transformation”

• Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως Λευκωσίας, Ιούνιος 2000. «Νέο Πενταετές Πρόγραμμα Αναζωογόνησης Περιοχών Πράσινης Γραμμής Λευκωσίας, έτη 2000-2004»
• Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως Λευκωσίας, 2002, «Οδηγός ερμηνείας πολεοδομικών κανονισμών»
• Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως Λευκωσίας, 2011, «Τοπικό Σχέδιο Λευκωσίας. Πρόνοιες και Μέτρα Πολιτικής»

The course extends the ambiguities and controversies developed in BACULT 08 and 09 regarding planning. It is a course that combines theory and application and recommends a laboratory of urban planning. In the theoretical part the basic significances that characterize the various urban theories and the significances of viability, energy planning and cultural landscape will be developed. The course will aim at the interpretation of exertion of these significances and will present examples from the various practical applications that were based on these significances.

The exercise that will be worked out in the frames of the course will concern the development of urban study in the limits of urban environment and it will investigate the terms and the mechanisms for the integration in the urban web and in the enacted versions of the city’s drawings.