Ecology and Urban Landscape

Presentation

The environmental and ecologic factors and its roll-on territory. The way of the relation between natural issues and communities welfare and how to make it compatible with other societal demands.

Part of this Programme

Urban Planning [M]

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Anual | 5

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT262-11555

Recommended complementary curricular units

All UCs are complementary.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. The urban environment and natural environment, Synthesis of the biophysical and ecological changes in the urban environment. Urban environmental problems. Characteristics of urban habitats and their influence on the fauna and flora composition.

2. Urban ecology. Fundaments, terminology and definitions. Biomas and ecosystems. Biodiversity.

3. Elements of the Urban landscape. Typology and function of spaces. Concepts and classification. Indicators and patterns.

4. Ecosystemic services and function of open spaces. Ecological benefits and environmental functions.

5. Green infrastructure in urban areas. Open space systems and structures. Type of systems/structures of green spaces

6. Planning and management of green spaces. Participation and cooperation. Financing and maintaining

7. Urban ideals and present challenges. The inter-relation between the built environment and open urban spaces. The sustainable city, demographic development, climate change.

Objectives

The CU aims mainly to looks at the main experiences and strategies of intervention in the contemporary city. To do that master students should:

1. Understand and inter-relate the mains biophysical and ecological changes caused by urbanization

2. Discuss the environmental changes and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems and communities

3. To relate principles of Urban Ecology and Sustainable Development with the respective urban, landscape and ecological measures

4. Analyse and discuss the importance of ecology and its urban environmental indicators.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The CU is structured in a format of design studio/seminar where the teacher presents the concepts and tools to enable students to solve urban design and compositional problems.

Students are individually evaluated by the quality, creativity and historical and technical adequacy of the presented design solutions. The students should attend the seminars where they are continuously evaluated, and develop the fieldwork that allows the required data collection.

The work is transversal to different curricular units to allow the global understanding of relations and importance of each area to urbanism.

References

Direcção Geral do Ordenamento do Territorio (1992). ¿Espaços Verdes Urbanos¿, Lisboa.

DTLR (Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions) (2002) 'Green Spaces, Better Places - Final Report of the Urban Green Space Taskforce'. London.

Fadigas, L. (2007) ¿Fundamentos ambientais do ordenamento do terrotório e da paisagem¿. Edições Silabo, Lisboa.

Smaniotto Costa, Carlos (2012) 'De quintas a parques - Visitando os Parques da Quinta das Conchas e da Quinta dos Lilases em Lisboa'. Arquitextos, São Paulo, 13.146, Vitruvius, jul 2012 http://www.vitruvius.com.br/revistas/read/arquitextos/13.146/4429

Smaniotto Costa, Carlos (2010) ¿Áreas Verdes: um elemento chave para a sustentabilidade urbana - A abordagem do Projeto GreenKeys¿. Em: Arquitextos, São Paulo, Nov. 2010, http://www.vitruvius.com.br/revistas/read/arquitextos/10.126/3672, ISSN 1809-6298

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