KU LEUVEN POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES 2009 2010
EMU SPRING 2010
EMU [MaUSP]
A. CORE COURSES B. POOL OF OPTIONAL COURSES C. DESIGN STUDIO D. FINAL THESIS PROJECT E. EUROPEAN CERTIFICATE OF URBANISM
EMU [MaUSP]
FALL SEMESTER CORE COURSES
[over 2 years]
SPRING SEMESTER
> RELEVANT PRACTICE & RESEARCH METHODS [4]
> STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANNING [6]
> THEORY & PRACTICE OF URBANISM SINCE 1945 [4]
> RELEVANT PRACTICE & STUDY TRIP [4]
> PROJECT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT [4]
> CRITICAL REVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES & PLANNING [3]
> LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [4]
> URBAN DESIGN STRATEGIES [6]
DESIGN STUDIO
MaUSP 1 > CONCEPTS & ANALYSIS [12]
> LANDSCAPE URBANISM [12] > URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING [12]
MaUSP 2 > URBANISM [12] > STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANNING [12]
OPTIONAL COURSES
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EMU [MaUSP]
FALL SEMESTER OPTIONAL COURSES
> MODERNITY & THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY [6] > URBAN STUDIES & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY I [4] > ECONOMIC & SUSTAINABILITY ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURAL & URBAN DESIGN [4] > URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURES & SOCIAL CHANGE [3] > URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY [4] > GEOMATICS FOR URBANISM & SPATIAL PLANNING [3] > INTERDISCIPLINARY DEBATES ON DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE [3] >…
MASTER THESIS
SPRING SEMESTER > THE ECONOMY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT [3] > LANDSCAPE URBANISM [3] > INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF SPATIAL PLANNING [3] > COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL URBANISM [3] > URBAN STUDIES & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY II [3] > CONSERVATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE [3] > PROJECT MANAGEMENT: BUILDING ECONOMICS & COST CONTROL [4] >…
> RESEARCH PAPER [24] > FINAL PROJECT [24]
CORE COURSES 2009 2010
Spring 2010 - H02N3B - Relevant Practice & Study Trip Prof. K. Shannon, Prof. J. Schreurs, Prof. H. Heynen
AIMS > introduction to basic principles of research methodology > discuss relevant practices in the field of urbanism SEMINARS ON RESEARCH METHODS
SEMINARS ON URBAN ANALYSIS > collective housing concepts/ implementation > urban density & space: concepts and morphologies
DESIGN STUDIO INTENSIVE FIELDWORK
CORE COURSES 2009 2010
Critical Review of Sustainable Development Policies and Planning H02Q6A - Spring 2010 - Prof. Joris Scheers, Benoit Legrand COURSE OBJECTIVES critical assessment of the impact of planning and development issues on space ISSUES > concepts, definitions, historic overview and methods > structuring elements of space, embedded in their social and economic context > how to apply sustainability on space?
TEACHING INFORMATION/ EVALUATION > different continents, different scales > focus on urban areas (in hinterland context) > methods as tools, apply how and when? > existing cases as teaching material > group interaction and case presentation
CORE COURSES 2009 2010
H02N1A - Strategic Spatial Planning Spring 2010 - Prof. Frank Moulaert, Dr. Loris Servillo PURPOSES The course introduces the students to a theoretical framework in order to reflect about the meaning of planning and its different aspects. Within this framework, the purpose is to give to the students the tools to become critical about the role of strategic approach in spatial planning. In particular the following will be analyzed: spatial planning context, the emerging new discourses on strategic planning, the differences with traditional planning (land use planning, master planning), strategic planning and the change process, the practice of strategic planning Spatial planning is exposed as a tool for deal with the management of transformations in a complex reality, through the combination of different authors’ contributes. The course will take into account the fundamental necessity to merge different approaches and sectorial analysis with territorial aspects, such as economic and social dynamics, administrative processes, business administrations, etc
CORE COURSES 2009 2010
H02N1A - Strategic Spatial Planning Spring 2010 - Prof. Frank Moulaert, Dr. Loris Servillo
Several teaching methods are combined to provide students knowledge, an in-depth understanding of the nature of the strategic approaches related to sustainable development and territorial cohesion aim The course has theoretical and practical components. Through a combination of selected reading, ex cathedra lectures and critical analysis of selected strategic interventions the students are introduced into the roots of strategy and strategic planning, the problems and challenges to be faced by strategic planning A specific part of the course is focused on strategic spatial planning cases and particular consideration is given to the contents and impacts of spatial strategies at different spatial scales.
CORE COURSES H02N9A – Urban Design Strategies
2009 2010
Spring 2010 – Prof. Bruno De Meulder, Prof. Paola Viganó AIMS To lay the conceptual basis required for taking into account all necessary strategic, contextual and design criteria whilst setting up a project that strategically intervenes to improve ongoing urbanization CONTENT > presentation and discussion of exemplary urban projects > presentation and discussion of a theoretical frame integrating principles at stake in the best urban projects of today
OPTIONAL COURSES H02Q2A – Landscape Urbanism
2009 2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Kelly Shannon
CONTENT > definition of landscape urbanism as a disciplinary field: investigation and evaluation of various theories and approaches at hand > basic requirements of landscape urbanism proposals: synthetic overview of criteria that should be met to produce a landscape urbanism concept of qualitative improvement > taxonomy of existing concepts by discussing relevant recent projects including themes such as : frame and infill, punctual intervention (acupuncture), forestation and clearing, artificial topography, linkage and profile of infrastructures
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
H02R5A – Institutional Aspects of Spatial Planning
2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Frank Moulaert, Dr. Loris Servillo CONTENT To reflect on the basis of planning systems, their philosophy and ideology and the impacts these aspects have on the functioning of planning (in theory and in practice)… ….. by explaining the institutional dimension, the planning context, the governmental structure, the legal system, the tools of implementation AIM to make students aware of the influence of the institutional context on the capacity of planning to impact on reality and to provide answers to problems, challenges, opportunities ANALYSIS > of the basic characteristics of different institutional and planning systems and circumstances, shortcomings of systems and new circumstances to deal with. > of the different legal and institutional means available in EU and non-EU planning contexts to implement a planning policy. Demonstration of how the types of plans/ policies/ interventions depend upon the institutional framework.
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
H02S4A – Urban Studies & Research Methodology II
2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Lieven De Cauter, Prof. Hilde Heynen
CONTENT The course is based on two series of seminars: > in-house research in architectural theory and urban studies with a main focus on the formulation of research questions qnd the development of appropriate methodologies to address these questions. > presentations on research methodologies including bibliography, firldwork, documentation techniques, the use and relevance of internet
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
H02R7A – Colonial and Post-colonial Urbanism
2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Bruno De Meulder
AIMS > provide a critical introspection into the nature of urbanism: its involvement in colonial situations, the impact of power relations on urban development > broaden knowledge of the historic development of modern urbanism by considering colonial urbanism as one of the main laboratories > provide historic background to the problematization of contemporary urban developments in their relation to colonial heritage in relation to globalization > Introdcution to colonial/ post-colonial history and theory to develop critical interpretation capacity
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
H02R7A – Colonial and Post-colonial Urbanism
2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Bruno De Meulder
CONTENT > colonial urbanism as laboratory of modern urbanism, the onvention of an “other� tradition of modernism and colonial urbanism as an export product > mapping, surveying and planning as a colonial sequence > colonial distorisions of urbanistic paradigms: the garden city, the City Beautiful and the modern city > the utilitarian tradition of colonial urbanism > colonial urbanism in the absence of cities and post-colonial urbanity (camps as the nomos of modernity) > the hereafters of colonialism and modernism
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
Project Management: Building Economics & Cost Control
2010
Spring 2010 – H02T5A - Prof. Frank De Troyer
PART I: INVESTMENT EVALUATION & LOANS > ROI, IRR, NPV, Pay Back, social loans
PART II: PROJECT TIMING & COST MONITORING
PART III: DEMAND, CROSS SUBSIDIES & PPP
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
H02T1A – Conservation of the Architectural Heritage
2010
Spring 2010 - Prof. Luc Verpoest
CONTENT > content-wise analysis of international documents guiding current practice of conservation > Examination of basic concpets such as conservation, restauration and authenticity > Examination of concept application through examples > Illustration of specific conservation problems of 20th century architecture > discussion of the problematic of “immaterial heritage” > Study of the activities of international institutions in the field of conservation (UNESCO, DOCOMOMO, etc.)
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
The [Political] Economy of Urban Development
2010
Spring 2010 - Chris Kesteloot, Maarten Loopmans
CONTENT > shrinking cities > creative cities > classical theories of urban economic growth > land rent theory > urban growth machine and urban regime theory > social and spatial employment mismatches > informal economy and ethnic entrepreneurship N.B. Subject to change according to students interest ASSIGNMENT follow one case of urban development (e.g. Brussels International Development Plan) and develop questions for a (fake) interview of stakeholders on the basis of the lectures
OPTIONAL COURSES 2009
The [Political] Economy of Urban Development
2010
Spring 2010 - Chris Kesteloot, Maarten Loopmans
PRE-REQUISITES > knowledge and use of basic concepts of political economy > knowledge of economic and political changes since the 19th century in the world and use of this as a historical canvas > analysis and interpretation of thematic maps and graphic presentation of data Literature made available through Toledo and “learning by doing�
STUDY TRIPS 2009 2010
Spring 2010: Cantho [Vietnam]
PREVIOUS SEMESTERS: Spring 2009 Lyon [France] Spring 2009 Hanoi [Vietnam] Spring 2008 Emscher Park, Berlin and Dessau [Germany] Spring 2008 Dhaka, Khulna and Bagherat [Bangladesh]
Spring 2008 Emscher Park, Berlin and Dessau [Germany]
Spring 2008 Emscher Park, Berlin and Dessau [Germany]
Spring 2008 Dhaka, Khulna and Bagherat [Bangladesh]
industrial area colonial quarter squatter housing ‘colony’ housing
Spring 2008 Dhaka, Khulna and Bagherat [Bangladesh]
EMU DESIGN STUDIOS 2009 2010
Spring 2010 – Cantho, Vietnam [Landscape Urbanism] Spring 2010 – Erie Canal, New York [Urban Region]
PREVIOUS SEMESTERS: Spring 2009 Hanoi’s Lakes + Red River [Vietnam] Spring 2009 Antwerp [Belgium] Spring 2008 Antwerp [Belgium] Spring 2008 Khulna [Bangladesh] Fall 2007 Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] Spring 2007 Mumbai [India]
LANDSCAPE URBANISM & STRATEGIC THINKING as athinking: Tool for Questioning 1. criticalStudio and strategic develop a position with internal coherence and logics and continually self-edit through a process of critical reasoning. 2. broadening of design tools and, in particular, the blurring of disciplinary boundaries: interweave architecture, landscape and urbanism 3. strengthening the existing qualities of specific places while working within the ‘new global order’ 4. staging scenarios that are strategic and structural (requiring concept clarification and work at multiple scales) 5. design as research
Spring 2010 Cantho, Vietnam [Landscape Urbanism] Kelly Shannon & Yuri Gerrits
Cantho: Mekong Delta capital 387,000 inhabitants; 170km southwest of HCMC
Cantho – ‘indigenous modernity’ liquid landscapes
17 c. liquid geography and floating urbanism water-based urbanity
primarily an agricultural territory Mekong Delta – 3 crops/year productivity
giant enterprise of agricultural infrastrcuture early 20th century French colonization of the landscape
water highways Xa No Canal
commerce, living and recreation along waterways water-based urbanity
land-use (Ninh Kieu density = 72 persons/ha; Binh Thuy density = 12 persons/ha) Cantho, Mekong Delta
mobility Cantho, Mekong Delta
environment & population Cantho, Mekong Delta
upgrading water-based urbanism
countering ad hoc development
confronting Delta dreams
Spring 2010 Cantho, Vietnam [Landscape Urbanism]
Reading (about) the Territory Exploratory Cartography of the Territory FIELDWORK in CANTHO 2 weeks (beginning 14 February 2010) Projective Mapping of the Territory Strategic Projects for Territory
Spring 2010 – Erie Canal [Urban Planning and Design] Amaechi Raphael Okigbo, Ward Verbakel
Site analysis
transportation
Spring 2009 Hanoi’s Lakes + Red River [Vietnam]
-- investigating the structuring capacity of water systems -- dealing with flood mitigation -- guiding development through landscape --
Spring 2008 Khulna [Bangladesh]
-- regional infrastructure – water purification – informal settlements – productive territory – regional water management --
Spring 2007 Mumbai [India]