URBP 551. Urban Design and Planning.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Fundamentals of city-building in Canada relative to municipal, regional, and provincial actions used to guide urban growth and development. Contemporary urban design in major metropolitan centres as shaped by legal, political, and cultural realities. Current preoccupations in city-building: reurbanisation and adaptive reuse of infrastructure, collaborative multi-stakeholder projects, strategic initiatives, changing relationships between professional experts and grassroots actors. Introduction to specific aspects of practice: public participation and community engagement; land development and real estate; project feasibility and
implementation; policy monitoring and evaluation; emergent city-building
regimes.
- (3-0-6)
- Restrictions: Not to be taken by undergraduates before U3. Not open to M.Arch. students.