Urbanism, Transports and Environment
Code
10372
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
João António Muralha Ribeiro Farinha
Weekly hours
3
Total hours
42
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
To give the future engineer capacities to analyse and understand the urban systems and the ways cities grown, decline and are transformed.
Special attention is given to the environmental aspects, transport, mobility and urban renewal. The aim is to bring the students to understand the causes and consequences of the main environmental problems in the cities and to enable them to intervene with solid knowledge in the resolution of those problems.
The student will acquire competences to integrate multi disciplinary teams dealing with planning and managing problems in the urban tissue. It is expected to open new fields of work for the environmental engineer.
Prerequisites
No specific requirements
Subject matter
“Cities, Transport and Urban Environment”
This course studies the urban areas in the perspective of achieving sustainable cities. It focuses in three main components:
(i) The planning and management of urban areas according with good practice for sustainable urban development,
(ii) the transport systems, their environmental implications and their deep relationship with land use patterns and urban forms
(iii) the urban environment, the ecosystem approach and the strategies arising from the European and from the national level.
Several urban areas in the metropolitan area of Lisbon are analysed as case studies. Urban auditing methodologies will be applied to those case studies and strategic action plans will be proposed.
Bibliography
- Cities of Tomorrow - Challenges, visions, ways forward; European Commission, Directorate General for Regional Policy; EU, October 2011. Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/citiesoftomorrow/index_en.cfm
- Cidades para um Pequeno Planeta; Rogers, Richard; Ed. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2001.
· City and Environment; European Commission; Brussels and Luxembourg, 1994.
· Ecologically Based MunicipalLand Use Planning; Honachefsky, William; Ed: Lewis Publishers, USA, 2000.
- "Energias Urbanas - Desafios Urbanos"; Memorando da Conferência Städtische Energien/Urban Energies; German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Berlim, Outubro 2012. Disponível em: http://www.bmvbs.de/EN/UrbanAndRuralAreas/UrbanEnergies/Memorandum/memorandum_node.html ·
Modelos Integrados de Uso do Solo-Transportes – Perspectivas de Aplicação à Área Metropolitana de Lisboa; Almeida, Elisabete; Teses de Mestrado LNEC; Lisboa, 1997.
· Sustaining Cities - Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design; Leitmann, Josef; Ed. McGraw-Hill, 1999.
· Sustainable Communities – The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods; Ed. Barton, Hugh; Earthscan Publications; London, 2000.
Urban Future 21 – A Global Agenda for 21’s Century Cities; Hall, Peter and Pfeiffer, Ulrich; The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing of Germany; Ed. Alexandrine Press, Oxford 2000.
Teaching method
Presentation of theoretical and practical contents by the professor with the support of several communication technologies (PowerPoint, videos, scientific web pages, etc.). Discussion in groups about crucial themes. Analysis of case studies. Exercises of application. Individual works on special themes centered on the interaction between urbanism, transportation and environment.
The evaluation of knowledge is based on tests, team work with oral presentation and student’s active participation during the practical lessons. Final exams.
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment
25% Individual Work (on Eco-Neighbourhoods);
25% Practical Work Group, (Transport Interfaces and Sustainable Urban Eficiency )
25% Test nº 1
25 % Test nº 2.