Lógicas Imobiliárias e Produção de Espaço Urbano - 1st semester
Code
722171230
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
3
Teacher in charge
José Afonso Teixeira
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1- To enhance the students knowledge of the functioning of various urban real estate markets;
2- To familiarize students with modern market research methodologies at the macro and micro analysis
levels;
3- To prepare students to develop and use real estate market studies;
4- To understand the role of planning policies and developers in the recent evolution of urban centers;
5 -To discuss the impact of new urban paradigms both in planning and real estate industry;
6- To know the main phases of real estate development process;
7- To provide the students with the basic analytic tools that are critical to understand the real estate
development;
8- To analyze the recent evolution of the urban real estate markets in Portugal;
9- To built bridges between territorial planning and real estate industry.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Urban Planning and Property Markets: building bridges
- Planning, public policy and property markets
- Why planners need to understand real estate development, and vice-versa.
2. Real Estate Development and Urban Space Structuring: Context and Paradigms
- Neo-liberalism and urban development
- Urban land use and land value theories
- The preservation of the built and natural environment
- Urban renaissance and regeneration
- Global cities and property markets
- Urban sprawl, outer city and urbanscapes
3. The Real Estate Development Process
-.The phases of real estate development process
- Market analysis for real estate
- The role of government and town planning institutions
4. The Urban Real Estate Markets in Portugal
- Typologies.
- A segmented market, a divided city?
5. Bridges for the future: contributions of developers and planners to a more sustainable city.
Bibliography
ADAMS, D.; WATKINS, C.; WHITE, M., Planning, Public Policy and Property Markets, Wiley-Blackwell,
2005.
CARVALHO, J., Planeamento Urbanístico e Valor Imobiliário. As parcerias Público-privado: teorias,
metodologia, potencial. 1ª ed., Cascais, Principia, 2005.
COIACETTO, E., Real estate Development industry Structure: consequences for urban Planning and
development, Planning Practice and Research, 21:4, 2006, pp.423-441.
HAUGHTON, G.; ALLMENDINGER, P.; COUNCELL, D.; VIGAR, G., The New Spatial Planning. Territorial
management with soft spaces and fuzzy boundaries. Routledge, 2010.
PORTAS, N.; DOMINGUES, A.; CABRAL, J. (colab. João Ferrão et al), Políticas urbanas: tendências,
estratégias e oportunidades, 2ª ed., Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007.
RATCLIFFE, J.; STUBBS, M; KEEPING, M., Urban Planning and Real Estate Development. Routledge,
2009.
WEBER, R., \"Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment.\" Antipode 34:3,
2002.
Teaching method
Expository lectures by the teacher and / or with the participation of guests to present case studies about
some topics of the program.
Analysis of reports of firms specialized in real estate.
Discussion of concrete cases of real estate development from the perspective of planners and
developers.
Presentation by the students and class discussion of their proposed research topics (work).
Monitoring the development of tutorial work, individually or in groups.
Evaluation method
The assessment includes:
a) A written test (40%);
b) Preparation of an assay (15-20p), based on independent research (35%);
c) Oral presentation and discussion of the work (15%).
d) Continuous evaluation of participation in presentations and discussions in class (10%).