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Urban Design - Ideas and Methods

ARCH9062

The unit will familiarise students with the main ideas and methods that have influenced urban design practice from the late nineteenth century to the present. It covers the dominant urban design theories, principles, conceptual and physical models, analytical methods and drawings from key contributing authors over the period, and explores critically how and why these arose, their interrelationships, spheres of influence, and continuing validity. In exploring their origins, it necessarily refers back to earlier periods. In this unit, the urban design 'classics' (eg Sitte, Le Corbusier, Lynch, Hillier, etc) are presented and discussed critically as history, design sources and tools. It complements the Urban Morphology unit (ARCH9063) unit, which emphasises the built forms that have resulted in part from the theories and models covered in Ideas and Methods. It is a core unit that supports the Urban Design Studios in the Urban Design programs and an informative elective for students enrolled in or intending to enrol in the Urban Architecture Research Studio.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Postgraduate

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: ARCH9062

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: No

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