EMU UPC fall 2010 by European Post-graduate Masters in Urbanism

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The worldwide demand for well-educated academics and professionals in the field of urbanism is increasing. increasing Our EMU Consortium intends to answer this challenge by setting up a new joint education program (EMU) for both EU/non-EU EU/non EU student and sharing: European experiences, traditions and innovations on design and management of cities cities

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The richness of European diversity in urbanism

UPC 1 5 Y E A R S O F U R B A N I S M M A S T E R P R O G R A M

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Our UPC Master's Degree in Urbanism, with fifteen years of experience, is designed to train highly qualified professionals and to qualify them to deal with the increasing complexity of urban phenomena and their interaction with their environment, the impact of new communication technologies and the relationship between city and territory.

Post-Industrial Sites

Mobility and Network Cities

Cultural Landscapes

deal with an extended use of the territory, including new ways of working and living. As a new form of settlement these territories need to rethink types and techniques of infrastructure.

investigate obsolete and marginal urban areas that provide new opportunities for urban restructuring. At a territorial scale the notion of shrinking cities and territories requires re-thinking of the notion of development.

focus on innovations and development in technology and infrastructural systems which allow for the reconceptualization of cities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such as urban polycentric regions, new centralities, urban gg , city y agglomerations, clusters or airport cities.

deal with a number of issues, including conservation through transformation, planning based on revaluation of heritage resources and identity in relation to globalization.

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Territories of Dispersion

15 YEARS OF UPC URBANISM

In the last years our Urbanism Department has leaded various European research projects on this theme, published several books and promoted some doctoral thesis. This vast experience is applied in the design studios and in theory and methodology based subjects.

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Territories of Dispersion

MASTER PROGRAM

15 YEARS OF UPC URBANISM

Our design studios deal with renewal proposals in different Catalan cities. Many of these proposals were afterwards adopted by City Councils as a basis for urban transformations

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Post-Industrial Sites

MASTER PROGRAM

15 YEARS OF UPC URBANISM

Important cities like Barcelona, Igualada or Tarragona have encouraged us to explore urban problems and to develop alternatives. The last one has dealt with an ambitious remodelation of the Diagonal Avenue, the main artery of Barcelona, and therefore the mobility pattern in the core of the city

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Mobility and Network Cities

MASTER PROGRAM

15 YEARS OF UPC URBANISM

Together with colleagues of different universities from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay or MIT, professors of our Department have been involved in the last years in worldwide research projects on Cultural Landscapes

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Cultural Landscapes

MASTER PROGRAM

15 YEARS OF UPC URBANISM

MASTER PROGRAM

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They have been asked by different institutions to develop planning proposals in these territories The last design studio prepared a plan for an impressive area of Majorca aiming to become WHS

Exchange semester

UPC Barcelona European Urbanism dimensions

Thesis semester

KU Leuven URBAN PLANNING ENTRANCE AT UPC

TU Delft

FINAL THESIS

REGIONAL DESIGN IAU Venezia Key Issues Territories of Dispersion Post-Industrial Sites Mobility & Networks Cultural Landscapes

Students will follow at least two semesters at their host university, and at least one in some of the other universities. They are encouraged to define their educational track attending to the key issues, the scale emphasis and their research interests. Other i important t t criteria it i are complexity l it (f (focusing i on d design i operations ti att diff differentt scales), l ) variety (taking into account a plurality of key issues) and coherence (relating their research interests and the content of the proposed track).

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Territories of Dispersion Post-Industrial Sites Mobility & Networks Cultural Landscapes

Students mobility is essential for the Consortium goals in order to achieve a wide European prospective and to enrich the students t d t view i with ith a synthesis th i off di diverse academic approaches as well as a rich living experience.

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Territories of Dispersion Post-Industrial Sites Mobility & Networks Cultural Landscapes

Theory 3 ECTS Regional Design Studio 15 ECTS

Methodology 6 ECTS

Technology Based 6 ECTS

Regional planning theory

Territories of the Post Industrial City Cultural landscapes

Territory & Economy Environment & Economy

1 ECTS (European Credit Transfer Standard) = 28 hours

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60 ECTS per year (EU standard) 120 ECTS > EMU Program

Regional design studio Teaching Staffs: Álvaro Cuéllar, Julián Galindo, Biel Horrach and Joaquim Sabaté (Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning)

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Design studios propose a real intervention that face crucial questions in the field of regional design: the effect of large-scale infrastructure; the new ways in which activities use the space; the territorial morphology as an intervention criteria, it i or how h cultural lt l resources can impulse i l local development, are among the issues students' designs will consider.

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Studios are based on previously prepared information information, so that we can rapidly get introduced to the theme and develop proposals in depth.

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regional design studio

Teaching aims The studio will train students in order to be able: - to carefullyy analyse y p problems in urban and regional g areas - to design proposals for planning, remodelling and developing these areas - to understand social, economic, technical and managerial aspects of planning - to weave them into their understanding of the forms of physical intervention - to consider the different scales involved in Urbanism in their designs - to develop well-grounded well grounded views of the field of Urbanism

Course content The studio integrates a strategic perspective of the transformation of a complex territory. It requires understanding the effect of activities upon a territory and the relation between planning decisions and local development. The studio program will include successive exercises. A intentioned An i t ti d description d i ti and d interpretation i t t ti off the th natural t l and d cultural lt l resources of the territory, so as the evaluation of the different morphological models of the tourist city. The analysis y of interventions in cultural landscapes p and alternative p patterns for urban development.

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The elaboration of different design strategies, based on a continuous mix of scales and layers (territory, infrastructure, settlements and activities, cultural resources ) These strategies should be developed as territorial schemes resources...). together with the selection and design of strategic projects that may become catalyst of the desired transformations.

Regional planning theory Teaching Staffs: P f Drs. Profs. D Miguel Mi lC Corominas i and d JJoaquim i S SabatĂŠ b tĂŠ (Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning)

This subject is based on the selection and detailed discussion of a set of significant plans and offers an interpretation from a design perspective, of the evolution of regional planning. In the analysis of these plans we will pay particular attention to the d fi iti off objectives, definition bj ti t h i techniques and d implementation i l t ti tools. t l Teaching aims

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This subject will provide a panorama on the evolution of regional planning and a clear understanding of theoretical references, models, methods and intervention tools.

Course content and program 1. From Laws of Indies to the Land Ordinance Act. Two traditions at the basis of the modern p planning g discipline. p 2. Origins of modern planning. The crisis of traditional paradigms and a new planning generation (Abercrombie, Geddes). The interwar British regional plans. 3. Rubio i TudurĂ: the aim of a structured territory. The need to know: statistics and geography; flows and preservation. preservation 4. Spatial planning in the U.S.A. The first proposals: The Appalachian Trial and the Regional Planning Association; the Regional Plan of New York. 5. From regional to federal planning: the experience of the Tennessee River Basin. 6 The 6. Th birth bi th off structural t t l plans. l F From G t London Greater L d Plan Pl to t the th South S th East E t Study. 7. A morphological approach to regional planning in the Plan for the island of Tenerife. Planning the territory of tourism based on landscape values. 8. Planners and "planologistâ&#x20AC;?. A review of urban proposals in Holland: from Western des Lands Committee to Designing Randstad 2040. 9. Ian McHarg: Design with nature. An ecological approach to planning. Urban implications of environmental criteria, the contribution of Richard T. Forman. 10 New planning paradigms: from blue print to the definition of scenarios 10. and strategies. Physical and narrative structure. Assignment and evaluation

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Students are expected to discuss in a written report the relation between references, f i t intervention ti methods th d and d tools t l applied li d in i their th i studio t di exercise i and those explained in class. They will be evaluated attending to their capability to refer their own proposals to a more general planning debate.

Territories of the post-industrial city Teaching Staffs: Prof. Dr. Antonio Font ( (Department off Urbanism and Regional Planning))

This subject deals with the analysis and discussion of the growth and transformation of some European cities in the last three decades. Special emphasis is placed on urban and territorial morphology as an expression of d demographic hi change, h economic i activity, ti it mobility, bilit location of industry, tertiary sector, facilities and housing, new forms of metropolitan growth, and the specific nature of the problems and p processes. Teaching aims

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This subject will provide an understanding of recent territorial processes in metropolitan areas of Southern Europe and the modalities of their spatial configuration.

Course content and program 1. The study of territorial transformations 1 2. The formation of Barcelona metropolitan area (1850-1975) 3. The formation of Barcelona metropolitan area (1975-2000) 4. The models and forms of contemporary growth I 5. The models and forms of contemporary growth II 6. Spatial structure of European metropolitan regions 7. Spanish metropolitan areas 8. Portugal and Southern France metropolitan areas 9. Some Italian metropolitan areas 10. Towards an alternative territorial project

Assignment and evaluation

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Students are expected to apply the tools that have been developed in the study of different metropolitan areas to an analysis of the recent transformation of their design exercise area. They will be evaluated attending to their capability to discuss and present an original interpretation in teamwork.

Cultural landscapes Teaching Staffs: Profs. Dr. Joaquim SabatĂŠ (Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning) and Pere Vall (Catalonian International University)

The intelligent management of heritage resources has become an important factor in local development. But the design of these areas cannot be addressed just with the intervention tools of traditional urban planning. The rich complexity of cultural landscapes requires a new conceptual framework and new methodologies and tools.

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The emergence of heritage parks holds a rich potential for the renewal of intervention criteria. These proposals include some basic assumptions: to identify the most relevant resources and to structure an attractive interpretation of them, to tell a story that can attract visitors and investors and to help the territory to initiate a new development impulse.

Teaching aims This subject will provide a general overview of the current trends on heritage area interventions. interventions Students shall become familiar with concepts such as cultural landscape and Heritage Park, with intervention methods and tools, relevant proposals and literature and with the state of the art of projects on cultural landscapes. Course content and program p g 1. Heritage as a basic resource for a new development model 2. From Lowell to Blackstone: the pioneering proposals 3. The recovery of old industrial areas: Ironbridge, Le Creusot and New Lanark 4. Heritage Corridors: from Appalachian Trail to Camino de Santiago and Canal du Midi 5. Agricultural parks: Palermo-Milan-Matar贸 Sabadell-Llobregat Delta 6. Intervention patterns: an integrated methodological approach 7. The Llobregat g River Park. Genesis and development p of the textile colonies system 8. Some lessons from places associated with events: intervention models, methods and tools 9. Cultural Landscapes in Catalonia: results and future challenges 10 Design, 10. Design implementation and management of cultural landscapes Assignment and evaluation

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Students are expected to apply the methods and tools that have learned in their design exercise. They will be evaluated attending to their capability to propose an original interpretation of cultural resources in their study area, and some guidelines to use them as local development catalyst.

Territory, environment and economy Teaching Staffs: D Joan Drs. J T ll and Trullen d Rafa R f Boix B i (Department of Regional Economics) and Prof. Salvador Rueda (Municipality of Barcelona)

First part of this subject introduces ecology on a regional scale from a theoretical standpoint and evaluates its effect on planning practice. Plans must incorporate new concepts, parameters and techniques (principles of landscape ecology, criteria for the sustainable planning and management of regions, systems integrated into natural t l and d urban b environments, i t etc.). t )

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On the second part regional growth and transformation processes are examined from a socioeconomic perspective. The planning process is complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach. One of the disciplines involved in its development is the economy. The program is divided into two blocks: regional economics and urban economics. The final p part of the course will focus on case studies, usually on the metropolitan area of Barcelona.

Teaching aims The first part will provide an understanding of the conceptual foundations of ecology and of their i importance on the h practice i off urbanism. b i Th The environmental paradigm requires incorporating into planning new concepts, technical parameters based on principles of landscape ecology, and design criteria for sustainable land management. g The second part will provide an understanding of some broad themes of the regional and urban economy, applicable to both regions and cities.

Course content and program. Environment and territory

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1. Framework of the territorial and urban environmental assessment: settlements, mobility and open spaces in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona 2 M 2. Main i environmental i t l problems bl iin th the M Metropolitan t lit Region of Barcelona 3. Some principles on sustainable mobility 4. Environmental problems in urban settlements 5. Open spaces and natural ecological matrix 6. Environmental Audits 7. Targeted interventions 8. The 21st Agenda

Course content and program. Economy and Territory Block 1: Regional Economy 1. Introduction to the study of land economics 2 Agglomeration 2. 3. Accessibility and location 4. Interaction, hierarchies and networks 5. Regional growth and competitiveness (I): exogenous growth 6 R 6. Regional i l growth th and d competitiveness titi (II): (II) endogenous d growth Block 2: Urban economy 7. Cityy models and economic activity y 8. Income and price of urban land 9. Creative and knowledge cities 10. City and sustainability

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Students are expected to develop a rigorous environmental and economical analysis of their design exercise, and to justify from the evidence and criteria offered by the course the main characteristics of their intervention. intervention They will be evaluated attending to their capability to discuss and present an original interpretation in teamwork.

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