Duration
15h Th, 20h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Understanding the urban reality remains an essential issue today. The in-depth analysis of the environment in which any built work takes place remains more than ever a necessity for project authors, whether they are architects or engineers.
Urban analytics is a relatively young scientifc discipline. It is based on the application of digital tools and metods to urban data, through the use of GIS combined with statistical methods.
The course is struictured along the following content:
- City expansion and densification processes
- Urban structures: patterns and systems
- Urban typologies and archetypes
- Urban density: indicators and effects
- Visual open space analysis: principles and methods
- Urban accessibility: activities and services
- Mobility and Walkability
- Social use and appropriation of urban spaces
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Town planning is an analytical, strategic, operational and regulatory approach. This introductory urban planning course focuses on the analytical approach.
The objective that we pursue here is to provide keys to interpreting the urban fabrics constituted, in all their complexity and richness. Also, when the text refers to city models, it is less with a view to aiding design than as a support for reflection in relation to the existing and in particular in relation to recent transformations of the city . Any city is in fact the product of the accumulation of different strata of development and we can find there the trace of the different currents of thought which have marked the development of urban thought as well as the succession of activities which have marked the particular history of each city.
Learning to read this environment means not only recognizing these traces of the past, but also interpreting their recent transformations as well as the forms of appropriation to which they give rise on the part of the population. From this perspective, the urban environment will be understood as a system associating a series of elements in constant interaction and each element only finds its reason for being and its own logic when placed within a larger whole.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no prerequisistes for this course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The objectives of the assignment are:
- Applying theoretical methods/approaches, and more specifically the morphological, typological
- and functional analyses
- Understanding the concepts associated with these methods
- Combining different approaches articulating a coherent discourse
- Developing a systemic understanding of the city
- Evolution of the urban fabric: site scale analysis
- Organisation of buildings, blocks and parcels.
- Typo-morphology of buildings/parcels
- Location of urban functions
- Mobility and flows
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
In person classes. Theoretical courses + Practical assignemnt
The slides are available on a shared Drive. The students are required to analyse the material proposed on the drive (slides + articles).
Recommended or required readings
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Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Additional information:
Evaluation based on a written exam for theory and report for the practical assigment
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Contact details: Jacques Teller, Professor, office 0/444, telephone 04 366 94 99, Jacques.Teller@uliege.be
I am available, on appointment, on Monday morning. You can contact me by email for any questions relating to the course.
Assistant: Mathilde Flas.