Urban Society, History, Theory - PLAN1003

Faculty: Built Environment

School: Planning and Urban Development

Course Outline: Built Environment

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course is an overview of planning studies through the frameworks of history, and urban planning theory. This is applied to modern planning practice, and the development of urban planning as a distinct profession. The main topics include the different planning paradigms and theories that have influenced urban planning in Australian and world cities; city typologies, past and present ‘ideal’ models of the city; social order; and the contemporary art of city-making in changing socioeconomic, environmental and political worlds.