ENVT2061-1 : Organisation of urban space

Study Programmes 2015-2016

ENVT2061-1

Organisation of urban space

Duration :

12h SEM, 12h Th

Number of credits :

Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS)		2
Master in environmental science and management (120 ECTS)		2
Master in environmental science and management (60 ECTS)		2
Specialised master in environmental management in developing countries		2

Lecturer :

N...

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course addresses the urban space organisation within their relationships to their environment, according to the different relevant scales, a fallow:
* the relationship between towns and their hinterland (rural and smaller cities) and the specific phenomenon of the urban macrocephaly and the specific imbalance of the report city-countryside of developing countries,
* the territorial structure of big cities within the developing countries, their running and hardly controllable dynamic and their difficult relationship with their hosting environment
* the urban organisation of the town and its extensions, analysed through the environmental effects and riks and according to a sustainable development logic.
* the different morphological urban units (among which the precarious settlement belts) and their match to the environmental management of the urban spaces in developing countries.

Learning outcomes of the course :

To bring the tools for the identifying and understanding of the specificity of towns organisation in developing countries and their difficult relationships with their vulnerable environment in climatic, geotechnic or socio-economics terms...
After completing the course the student is expected to
The course aims to bring the diagnosis tools of the factors operating within the difficult relationship between the urban spaces in developing countries and their environment. It intents to help to distinguish the endogenous and exogenous factors, the structural and organisational factors, the risk prevention issue by planning and the remediation actions opportunities answering specific issues of the concerned urban society and space. It favours the approach of the impacts of urban development in fragile environment, the natural risks on urban life and especially the water resources and wastes management issues.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Lectures : 12h
Seminars : 12h