Titular Professors
This subject is essentially theoretical. Its purpose is to contact the analytic point of view with the territorial environment, as well as the historic processes that have caused changes in the urban environment. That is why, as first contact, it is not essential to start from deep knowledge beyond those for the general history of civilizations, which certainly helps to set the teaching taught in society and time.
Urban management:
A basic knowledge of urban planning which it is assumed the student has acquired in order to take on this course.
The training guarantees that the student acquires the necessary knowledge to practice the following competences:
- Have a flair for the creation of architecture projects that satisfy the esthetic and technical exigencies.
- Adequate knowledge about history and architecture theories, as well as arts, technology and human sciences related.
- Knowledge about fine arts as a factor that may influence in the quality of the architectonic conception.
- Capacity to understand the relation between persons and buildings and between these and its environment, as well as the necessity to relate structures and spaces located between them according to the necessities and the human scale.
- Capacity to understand the architects´ profession and their function in society, specifically, carrying out projects that consider social factors.
Competences
Instrumental competences
- Analysis and synthesis capacity.
- Capacity to organize and plan.
- Basic general knowledge about the urban environment.
- Information management abilities (ability to search and analyze information coming from different sources).
- Basic and fundamental knowledge about the information area.
- Knowledge of any training specialty.
Interpersonal competences:
- Critic and auto-critic capacity.
- Team work.
Systemic competences:
- Capacity to apply knowledge into practice.
- Research abilities.
- Learning capacity.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Motivation to achieve new challenges.
Specific competences:
Disciplinary knowledge, know:
- Social sciences about the city.
Disciplinary knowledge, know how to do:
- Basic general knowledge about the city´s form and development.
- Understand and relate spatial formal typologies in the city.
- Analysis and synthesis capacity in a specific situation.
- Capacity to understand the city-element´s layout.
General academic competences:
- Capacity of reasoning, discussion and exposition of the own ideas.
- Capacity to research, analyze, synthesize and select information.
- Study habits and working methodology.
The themes that will be studied in the subject Introduction to the Urbanism are the correspondent to the city´s models and history, as well as specific interventions that are pointed out below:
Unit 1:
- Near East: Mesopotamia and Egypt.
- Classic world: Greece and Rome.
- The Middle Ages: kinds of cities, urban elements and new towns.
- The Renaissance city: artistic culture, writers. Italian model. Spanish contribution.
- Rome during the baroque ages: spatial conception. Sixtus V´s urban plan. Roman squares.
- French urbanism classicism: The royal squares. The big axis. The château and the gardens.
- England during the XVII and the XVIII centuries: Covent Garden. London´s fire and its reconstruction. The Bath operations.
- Great Britain after the industrial revolution: society and housing.
- Common utopian actors: Owen, Fourier, Cabet, Godin.
- Paris in times of Napoleon III and Haussmann: road networks, urban operations, services networks, housing policies.
- Urban expansion areas in Vienna and Barcelona
- City´s theories at the beginning of the XX century: the garden city, the industrial city, engineering city.
- The rationalism urbanism: Le Corbusier, la Bauhaus.
- Russia after the 1917 Revolution: economy and soviet urbanism.
- The `third-positioning´ European times and its urbanity actions: Italy and Germany.
Unit 2:
-Urbanism´s multiple dimensions: technical-legal subject.
- City concept: times and functions.
- The medieval and Renaissance city.
- The city during baroque and industrial times.
- Neighborhood and districts: city´s sub-dimensions and characteristics.
- Ground´s division, the urban plan: classification and assessment.
- Elements of a city: public spaces, systems and zones.
- Floor area ratio: concept, index and calculation.
- Density and compact space: population´s distribution in the territory.
- Ground use: uses and activities.
- Ecosystems: sustainability, local 21 agenda.
- European directives: notions and urbanism affectation.
The subject will be taught through theoretical sessions mostly and some analytic exercises.
The professor will teach along the curse the subject´s theoretical concepts through magisterial classes. During these classes, the professor will exemplify the subject´s contents and will solve doubts or interesting cases proposed by the students. Because of the subject´s nature, the class-time distribution is an 80% for the magisterial classes and the 20% for the rest of the classes.
TIMING: HALF-YEARLY
Dedication to the subject = 3 credits per 26 hours/credits = 78 hours
Half-yearly dedication = 20 weeks (15.5 class-hours + 4,5 exam-hours)
Weekly dedication = 78 hours/20 weeks = 3,9 hours/week
Concept Total hours
Theoretical classes: 15,5 each week . x 3 h./ week . = 46,5 h. 80% (24,8) 25
Practical classes: 20% (6,2) 6
Exercises solved at home 78 hours for classes, doubts exams = 21 h. 51% (10,7) 11
Individual study: 49% (10,3) 10
Sessions for doubts. 10% h. total hours (3,1) 3
Tutorship 1
Total of hours dedicated outside exams -periods (56,1) 56
Exams preparation time: 4,5 per week.exam.x3,9 h./week = 17.6 rest (17,9)18
Exams 4 4
Total half-yearly dedication 78
Continuous evaluation test to verify the student´s comprehension of the subject and an ordinary exam. Recovery exam.
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