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URBAN Design - an Overview
Rating: 3.5 out of 5(13 ratings)
435 students

URBAN Design - an Overview

toward a better understanding of urban planning and design
Created byProf. M. SENTHIL
Last updated 12/2023
English
English [Auto],

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

Course content

5 sections • 18 lectures • 1h 40m total length

  • What is Urban Design?5:59

    Explore how urban design shapes the built environment and open spaces to create spatial order, reflect social values, and serve the public realm across scales.

  • Elements of Urban Design?2:23

    Explore how buildings define street walls and space, create a sense of place, and how public spaces and streets along with transport networks and green landscape shape urban design.

  • Differences in Livability and Sustainability?6:22

    Explore how livability differs from sustainability by comparing community-focused actions, the triple bottom line, and walkable transportation strategies that balance economy, environment, and social quality of life.

  • Urban Design V/s Architecture3:16

    Compare urban design and architecture, linking buildings to the spaces they create. Discover how urban planners consider demographics and infrastructure, while architects craft form and aesthetics.

  • Trends in Urban Planning and Design6:14

    Explore current trends in urban planning and design and learn how these developments shape cities within an overview of urban design concepts.

  • Urban Design Concepts6:18

    Explore urban design concepts that create sustainable, inclusive communities through human scale, mixed use development, transit oriented design, placemaking, green infrastructure, and walkable, pedestrian friendly spaces.

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 Design

Each module that follows will be a self-contained graphical presentation of a group of ideas and visuals.

Who this course is for:

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

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