3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4019203DNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.
This course deals with the recent development of the discipline of urban design. The course outlines the different schools of thought and approaches applied to deal with the 'permanent ' crisis of the 20-21st century city. This crisis is, among other things, outlined through a discussion of the current urban problems of the Brussels metropolitan area. In addition, the course deals with approaches that call for urban regeneration with a concern for tradition and context, as opposed to approaches that embrace the modern, fluid, dispersed and diffuse urban reality of the late 20th and early 21st century. In this reality nodes of infrastructure are new foci of urbanity. The wider territory and regional and landscape design start to play an important role in dealing with this urban reality. Finally, the European practice of urban design, ' le projet urbain ' or the ' proyecto urbano ' as it is named in France and Spain respectively, is put on the map. Here, also the achievements of the current practice of urban renewal in Flanders is being treated, as it is ever more often the field of action of internationally renowned urban planners.
Study materials
Powerpoint presentations of the courses
Reader
- the student is able to identify the most important spatial principles and concepts of the various appraoches in urban design in response to the crisis of the contemporary city,
- the student is able to draw links between the various approaches,
- the student knows the most important personalities and understands their contribution to the discipline of urban design.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 90% of the final mark.
SELF Practical Assignment determines 10% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The evaluation consists of an oral exam (90%) and a small assignment that includes the reading of a text on urban projects in Brussels, a site visit and a presentation/discussion about those projects in class (10%).
Partial marks for the assignment, if the student obtains at least half of the score for this part, are transferred to the second session. Students may not relinquish partial marks.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Architectural Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Geography: Standard track
Master of Urban Studies: Standard track
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 1 (Bachelor via SCH of VRB) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 2 (Master indirect) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Urban Design and Spatial Planning: Track 3 (Bachelor of Master direct) (only offered in Dutch)