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OA07UP1 - Urban design 1

Course specification
Type of study Bachelor academic studies
Study programme
Course title Urban design 1
Acronym Status Semester Number of classes ECTS
OA07UP1 mandatory 5 1L + 2E 4.0
Lecturers
Lecturer
Lecturer/Associate (practicals)
Prerequisite Form of prerequisites
For attending classes. For taking the final exam. The final exam of the Basis of Urbanism 1 and the pre-examination obligations of Urban Technic and Urban Composition have been completed for attending classes. For the final exam required are filled with pre-exam obligations for Urban Design 1.
Learning objectives
The main objective of the course is to train students to create development programs for specific urban or rural areas by modern approaches, methods, procedures and techniques of the urban design process. Also, the aim is to introduce students to the complexity of the cities, through the study of urban problems and phenomena with several aspects and at more spatial levels.
Learning outcomes
Mastering with contemporary approaches, methods, procedures and techniques of the urban design process.
Content
Place of urban design in the process of creating a city space. Urban Design: properties, techniques and range. From artistic to pragmatic in urban design: approach, goals, procedures and effects. An overview of the evolution of urban concepts: from originally traditional to modern; From postmodern to futuristic. Urban community: concept, development over time, manifest forms, types, models. Urban development: concept, characteristics, variability, transformations, rhythms. Urban Morphogenesis of Banja Luka. Urban form and urban landscape. Traditional values ​​of city units. Urban models - concepts: E. Howard, Le Corbusier, F.L. Wright, C. Doksiadis and C. Alexander. Modules, networks and matrices for the formation of urban units.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, exercises, workshops, consultations, fieldwork, presentations.
Literature
  1. 'Form of the City'
  2. 'Man and the city'
  3. 'A city is not a tree'
  4. M. Ralević. 1988. Programsko modelovanje urbanih funkcija. Beograd: CMSUB. (Original title)
  5. 'Landscape Cities: Comparison of the Urban Identity Development of Banja Luka and Graz'
Evaluation and grading
Activity in teaching and attendance: 10 points Colloquia: 2 x 7.5 = 15 points Graphic works: 20 + 20 + 20 = 60 points Final exam: 15 points Corrective seminar work: 7.5 points
Specific remarks
Pre-examination obligations of students are both positively assessed colloquia, 80% of attendance at lectures and exercises, and positively evaluated graphic works. Students who receive positive grades on both colloquiums are exempted from passing the final exam and the number of points won at colloquiums is passed to the points of the exam. Colloquiums are a compulsory check of knowledge. Absence with two colloquiums, negative grades at a colloquium or combination obliges the student to write a seminar paper on one topic of the lectures in the school year and enter to the final exam.