2024-2025 / ARCH2005-2

Operational urban planning : integrated practice

Duration

80h Pr, 95h Proj.

Number of credits

 Master in geography, general, professional focus in urban and regional planning7 crédits 
 Master in urban planning and territorial development, professional focus in post-industrial and rurban territories7 crédits 

Lecturer

Sigrid Reiter

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Project exercise, solving multidisciplinary problems and integrating the different design phases of an urban planning project :
-Characterization and analysis of potential city site: diagnosis, defining the issues, risks and opportunities;
-Developing a program of action: strategic analysis, planning by objectives;
- Master plan (2D & 3D);
- Operational development (legal & financial issues, actors)
-Communication and representation of the project and its integration: visual communication, Sketchup, oral presentation...

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The objectives of this project are:
- Addressing the urban project through a complex urban situation.
- Learning to control the multidisciplinary nature of urban projects of large scale.
- Learning to conduct a project through its various phases of design, since the initial diagnosis to the master plan and operation design (actors, finances, legal issues).

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is given in the second quadrimester. It is based on a project-based pedagogy, involving a client in the initial stage of the analysis. City officials are  hence invited to present the problem at hand and frame the context of the project. 
The course is based on group working, most of the times combining different disciplines. Student work is regularly monitored during the course, through collective workshops, where they can learn from each other in practice.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Presence is required at the class. Group working is based on regular attendence of the course.
 

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Reference books (no obligation):
Les espaces publics urbains, Mission Interministérielle pour la Qualité des Constructions Publiques.
La programmation urbaine, Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment, 2003, n°5175.
Les marchés de définition, Mission Interministérielle pour la Qualité des Constructions Publiques.
Towards an urban Renaissance, Urban Task Force.

An external jury is invited to give an opinion about the final work of students at the end of the year. This jury's advice is purely indicative. The evaluation is based on the reports and visual displays of the sudents.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Any questions or requests for additional information is welcome.
Students wishing to meet me can get an appointment by sending an e-mail.

Contacts

Prof. Sigrid Reiter  e-mail: sigrid.reiter@uliege.be 

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