Class Planning and Urban Management Instruments

In urbanism plans, elaboration and management, are essential, so the skills on knowledge the methodologies to make and use territorial plans are essential.

1. Urban instruments. The different Plans. Scale, aims and contents of Plans. Examples. Design and preparation process.

2. Land use control;

3. Articulation of plans of different hierarchy;

4. Strategy in urban planning. Methodology and preparation. Method SWOT. Analysis, diagnostic and prognostic. Urban parameters and patterns. Language and representation. Information sources;

5. Urban management. Management process. Institutionality for management. Monitoring and followup instruments; Process for plan revision;

6. Legal framework and legislation;

7. Stakeholders. Development and Participation.

The preparation of a transversal work, common to most of the curricular units, which contains the particularities of each UC, is a practice that promotes a specific understanding of the subjects specific to each UC and knowledge of their relationships in the context of work in urban planning, preparing the student to solve complex problems. Seminar classes, where different topics are addressed in a coordinated manner by different lecturers, allow for a broader approach and the consolidation of more comprehensive knowledge in the fulfilment of the course programme.

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