Advanced Planning Studio PLNC 5305

Course description:

This course covers practice and the practical application of the concepts, skills, ways and methods of urban planning to urban and regional levels, and through realistic planning projects selected from the environment.Practice and practical application of projects and layouts, with a focus on urban planning projects.Linking different planning theories, strategies and practical mechanism for concrete projects.
Configuration elements of the urban environment in terms of physical planning, the social and the economic planning.A brief study of the process of project planning process from the following areas: urban transformation, how to set up the rules and the law making process, taking into account regulatory schemes needed schema and planning institutions when dealing with outlines.

Course Aims:

This course seeks to:
  • Understand the content of laws and apply them in outlines.
  • Clarify the role and powers of the Department of planning institutions planning projects.
  • Have knowledge in the advantages and constraints, the features and in theories of urban planning.
  • Understand the meaning of physical level planning, social, and economic.
  • Have knowledge in the types of chart to include, for example, urban slums, reviving old neighborhoods and historic preservation.
  • Understand the most important policies occurred at the central and local levels of planning. 
  • Learn about the key planning strategies necessary to solve layout problems and excessive growth control mechanism, particulary on the urban fringe.

Course outcomes:

The students upon completion of this course would be able to:
  • Give the students a solid foundation that concerns dealing with planning projects on the practical side, thus enhancing the students’ skills in planning.
  • Be familiar with the key strategies in planning legislations.
  • Acquire a practical skill concerned with project management in planning.
  • Have depth of knowledge in the concept, constraints, policies, and the requirements of urban planning branches
  • Well acknowledge the role and impact of planned establishment plan and use the latter to meet their concerns.