This module aims to provide comprehensive readings in modes of classical and contemporary urban planning that involve planning history, process and outcomes. Students will be introduced to a list of selected international exemplars that dominating local planning technocratic decisions in urban design and planning schemes.
This module has the following objectives:
1. It seeks to provide students with foundations of planning by introducing variegated historical roots of city planning pioneers, principles and annotated theories;
2. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of the dynamic relations involving city cultures, forms and functions that planning mechanism operates;
3. It is aimed at enhancing the student’s ability to critically learn from exemplars in urban design and planning procedures and products that leads to built environmental sustainability; and
4. It is aimed at enhancing student’s ability to form integrated urban design and planning strategies for managing planning information and resources in order to facilitate a socially responsible built environmental development.This module aims to provide comprehensive readings in modes of classical and contemporary urban planning that involve planning history, process and outcomes. Students will be introduced to a list of selected international exemplars that dominating local planning technocratic decisions in urban design and planning schemes.
This module has the following objectives:
1. It seeks to provide students with foundations of planning by introducing variegated historical roots of city planning pioneers, principles and annotated theories;
2. It seeks to provide students with an understanding of the dynamic relations involving city cultures, forms and functions that planning mechanism operates;
3. It is aimed at enhancing the student’s ability to critically learn from exemplars in urban design and planning procedures and products that leads to built environmental sustainability; and
4. It is aimed at enhancing student’s ability to form integrated urban design and planning strategies for managing planning information and resources in order to facilitate a socially responsible built environmental development.
「都市」，是一種狀態、一種社會/產業/人文的再現(representation)嗎？那麼，「都市計畫」，又是什麼？為什麼都市需要規劃？都市規劃在作哪些事情？和建築設計又有哪些關係？……
Is "city" a state, a representation of society/industry/humanities? So, what is "urban planning"? Why do cities need planning? What is urban planning doing? What does it have to do with architectural design? …
Full reading lists to be given out in Wk1 during instruction.
Urban Planning Classics:
Stein, Jay (ed.) (1995) Classic Readings in Urban Planning – An Introduction. NY: McGraw-Hill Inc.
Urban Design:
Kreiger, Alex (2006) “Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?,” in Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer, Pp.64 – 71.
Lang, Jon (2005) Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies. MA: Architectural Press
Cuthbert, Alexander (2011) Understanding Cities: Method in Urban Design. NY: Routledge.
The Industrial Revolution:
Engels, Friederick (1950) “The Great Towns”, in The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, with a Preface written in 1892, Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (trans.), London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. c1892
Robert Owen and Building the New Moral World:
Harrison, J. F. C. (1969) Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Charles Fourier and Phalanstery:
Fourier, Charles (1999) “Selections Describing the Phalanstery,” in The Utopia Reader, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.), New York, London: New York University Press
Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City:
Howard, Ebenezer (2003) To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, original edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, Colin Ward, New York: Routledge
Arturo Soria y Mata and the Linear City:
Collins, George R. (1959) “The Ciudad Lineal of Madrid”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.18, no.2, May 1959, Pp.38-53.
________________(1959) “Linear Planning Throughout the World”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.18, no.3, Oct. 1959, pp.74-93.
Tony Garnier and the Industrial City:
Dora Wiebenson (1960) “Utopian Aspects of Tony Garnier’s Cité Industrielle”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 19, no. 1, March, 1960, pp.16-24.
The City Beautiful Mov
Full reading lists to be given out in Wk1 during instruction.
Urban Planning Classics:
Stein, Jay (ed.) (1995) Classic Readings in Urban Planning – An Introduction. NY: McGraw-Hill Inc.
Urban Design:
Kreiger, Alex (2006) “Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?,” in Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer, pp. 64 – 71.
Lang, Jon (2005) Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies. MA: Architectural Press
Cuthbert, Alexander (2011) Understanding Cities: Method in Urban Design. NY: Routledge.
The Industrial Revolution:
Engels, Friederick (1950) "The Great Towns", in The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, with a Preface written in 1892, Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky (trans.), London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. c1892< br />
Robert Owen and Building the New Moral World:
Harrison, J. F. C. (1969) Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: The Quest for the New Moral World, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Charles Fourier and Phalanstery:
Fourier, Charles (1999) “Selections Describing the Phalanstery,” in The Utopia Reader, Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.), New York, London: New York University Press
Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City:
Howard, Ebenezer (2003) To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, original edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, Colin Ward, New York: Routledge
Arturo Soria y Mata and the Linear City:
Collins, George R. (1959) "The Ciudad Lineal of Madrid", in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.18, no.2, May 1959, Pp.38-53.
______________(1959) "Linear Planning Throughout the World", in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.18, no.3, Oct. 1959, pp.74-93.
Tony Garnier and the Industrial City:
Dora Wiebenson (1960) “Utopian Aspects of Tony Garnier’s Cité Industrielle”, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 19, no. 1, March, 1960, pp.16-24.
The City Beautiful Mov
| 評分項目 Grading Method | 配分比例 Grading percentage | 說明 Description |
|---|---|---|
| AttendanceAttendance Attendance |
10 | Marks will be added up in each class for efforts to attend class on-time and in proper manner. |
| Group Presentation Team Work: Multimedia and PPT Presentation (20%) and A3 Report (20%)Group Presentation Team Work: Multimedia and PPT Presentation (20%) and A3 Report (20%) Group Presentation Team Work: Multimedia and PPT Presentation (20%) and A3 Report (20%) |
40 | Marks will be allocated under 4 Criterions. (Description to be provided in Wk1) |
| Individual Poster SubmissionIndividual Poster Submission Individual Poster Submission |
40 | Marks will be allocated under 3 Criterions. (Description to be provided in Wk1) |
| Performance & Self-ImprovementsPerformance & Self-Improvements Performance & Self-Improvements |
10 | To be explained in Wk1. |
