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Presentation
Presentation
The discipline of Urban Ecology and Sustainability is governed by content related to the training and activity of the architect in the field of urban ecology and sustainable development, from the theoretical and political to the strategic and operative domain.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor; Master Degree | Semestral | 5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
4 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT36-12632
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
- The city as an ecosystem. - Fundamentals of environmental, technological, economic, and socio-cultural sustainability. - Essential values in urban intervention at the environmental, social, and experiential level. - The inputs and outputs of the system: energy, water, and food vs air pollution and effluents. - Urban growth and urban density. - The ecological footprint. - National legislation and international directives. - Regulatory institutions. - The importance of urban regeneration. - Urban strategies for sustainable mobility and sustainable construction. - Concepts of garden-city, eco-cities, and eco-neighborhoods. - Concepts of polycentrism, green corridors, and ecological structure of the city-region (cf. Decree-Law 380/99). - Parameters for analyzing the sustainability of the urban fabric. - Sustainability, resilience, and quality of life.
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Objectives
Objectives
- apprehend the importance of environmental and ecological values ¿¿for sustainable development and the role of the architect in that context; - identify the main concepts, policies, and recent theories in the field of urban ecology and sustainability. - recognize the existing instruments and documents related to the environment and sustainable development, as well as how to read and interpret these documents and their interrelationships. - know how to analyze the urban fabric according to ecological, comfort, health, and safety parameters (micro-climates, heat islands, ventilation corridors, permeable areas, biodiversity, retention basins, water lines, noise, earthquake risk, walking paths, green spaces, and bike lanes. - master intervention strategies in the urban fabric in order to improve the ecological quality of the city. - achieve critical and instrumental operability in successive approaches to intervention scales in the territory.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
- Project-Based Learning (PBL) - Research by design - Cooperative learning
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References
References
AMADO, Miguel Pires, Planeamento urbano sustentável, Caleidoscópio, 2009. BETTINI, Virginio Elementos de Ecologia Urbana. Trotta, 1998, ISBN 8481642614. CABRAL, Francisco Caldeira, O Continuum Naturale e a Conservação da Natureza, in ¿Conservação da Natureza¿, Serviços de estudos do Ambiente, Lisboa, 1980. CANNATÀ, Michele; FERNANDES, Fátima, Territórios reabilitados: revamped landscape, Caleidoscópio, 2009. CONDON, Seven rules for sustainable communities: design strategies for the post-carbon world, Island Press, 2010. DÍAZ, Fernando Gaja, Revolución informacional, crisis ecológica y Urbanismo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Valência, 2005, ISBN 8497057821. FARR, Douglas, Sustainable urbanism: urban design with nature, Wiley, 2008. FRANCO, Maria de Assunção Ribeiro, Planeamento ambiental para a cidade sustentável, Annablume, 2000, ISBN 8574190985.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
