Class Urban and Territorial Planning

The discipline of Urban and Territorial Planning is governed by contents related to the training and the activity of the architect in the scope of urban and territorial planning, from historical and theoretical to political, strategic and operational domain, that is to say:

• The concept of urban and territorial planning.
• Concepts and terms related to urban and territorial planning.
• History and theories of urbanism and planning.
• Urban and territorial policies and strategies.
• National legislation and international directives.
• Different types of instruments and plans: scales, hierarchies, components, interpretation, soil classification.
• Essential values ¿¿for intervention in the territory.
• Sustainability, resilience, quality of life.
• The architecture and town planning project, framed in the plans and legislation applicable to the territory; the importance of constraints.

The classes are based on the presentation of case studies as a result of analytical and practical assignments.

The discipline of Urban and Territorial Planning is guided by contents related to the training and activity of the architect in the scope of urban and territorial planning, from the historical and theoretical to the political, strategic, and operational domain.
- Concepts and terms related to urbanism and planning.
- History and theories of urbanism and planning.
- Urban and territorial policies and strategies.
- Legislation, types of instruments, and plans: scales, hierarchies, components, interpretation.
- Uses and classification of soil; the importance of conditioning factors.
- Essential values: environmental, heritage, symbolic, cultural, aesthetic, social.
- Sustainability, resilience, quality of life.

Classes are guided by the presentation of case studies and analytical and practical exercises.

Being the discipline both of theoretical and practical nature, the teaching methodology results from a combination of:

A) theoretical classes;

B) classes taught by guests of the specialty;

C) study visits or attendance at conferences related to the subjects under study;

D) tutorial orientation and phased presentations of the developed works.

Being the discipline both of theoretical and practical nature, the assessment, being process-oriented, should verify the progression of the individual competencies in three complementary pedagogical levels in view of the autonomy of the student:

1. informative (basic level)

2. analytical/critical (medium level)

3. operative (high level - autonomy)

The general evaluation criteria result from a combination of:

¿ continuous assessment (20%), which includes attendance, assertiveness, evolution and elaboration of exercises carried out in class and/or reports about the topics addressed in class or in study visits.

¿ a group work (30%)

¿ an individual work (50%)

DGOTDU (2011). Glossário do Desenvolvimento Territorial. CEMATIC. Disp. online

PARDAL, Sidónio et al. (1998). Normas Urbanísticas, vol. II - Desenho Urbano, Perímetros Urbanos e Apreciação de Planos. Lisboa: DGOT/UTL; cota: UR/340.A-BC
PORTAS, Nuno et al. (2003). Políticas Urbanas. Tendências, estratégias e oportunidades. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; cota: UR/270-BC

VEGARA, Alfonso; Rivas, Juan L. de las (2004). Territorios Inteligentes. Fundación Metrópoli. Disp. online.