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This course focuses on urban planning and design studio, with the goal of understanding and applying elements of urban design to create better places for people. Students will analyze natural and manmade environments of sites and design redevelopment plans. The course covers topics such as site planning, urban design, zoning regulations, and the conceptual, visual, and social dimensions of urban design through lectures, field exercises, and individual and group projects.

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This course focuses on urban planning and design studio, with the goal of understanding and applying elements of urban design to create better places for people. Students will analyze natural and manmade environments of sites and design redevelopment plans. The course covers topics such as site planning, urban design, zoning regulations, and the conceptual, visual, and social dimensions of urban design through lectures, field exercises, and individual and group projects.

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Adama Science and Technology University

School of Civil Engineering and Architecture


Master of Science in Urban Planning and Design
Course Code UPD 6101
Course Title Urban Planning & Design Studio-I (Analysis & Design of Urban Form)
Degree Program MSc. In Urban Planning and Design
Program Weekend
Credit Hour 3
Tutorial and Home
Contact hours per Lectures Practice/Laboratory/Field Total
Seminars study
week
1 6
Year / Semester I/I
Pre-requisites: None
Course Status Compulsory mandatory Courses
Urban Design is the art of making places to people. To produce better places
for people, understanding the site within and without is important. Thus, in
this course, there are two projects, one common and another individual site.
For the common site (8-12ha), all of you will select a theme and deal
Course everything of the theme on the same site and share for others. For individual
Description: site, select a site and work the whole themes individually. In both, you will
learn analyzing the natural and manmade environment and design a better
environment for parts of the city. This studio course is accompanied with
book review to enhance your understanding and on spot activities (such as
blocking) that enhance your skill in designing better places.

Course Objectives
To understand and use elements of urban design to make places

Course Content Unit I: What is Site Planning?


Unit 2: What is Urban Design?
Unit 3: Introduction to the Neighborhood and the Site
Unit 4: Zoning & Other Regulations
Unit 5: The Conceptual Dimension of Urban Design
Unit 6: Access & Streets
Unit 6: Housing & Mixed Use
Adama Science and Technology University
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Master of Science in Urban Planning and Design
Unit 7: The Visual Dimension of Urban Design I
Unit 8: The Visual Dimension of Urban Design II
Unit 9: The Perceptual Dimension of Urban Design I
Unit 10: The Social Dimension of Urban Design
Exercise 1: Reading cities.

Suggested studio Exercise 2: Preparing site plans of existing city sections in Adama.

exercises Project: Urban redevelopment. Analysing the urban form of existing


settlements in inner city of Adama and designing an alternative.

Grading: As per University’s regulation


Minimum of 80% attendance during lecture hours; 100% attendance during
Course policy:
practical work sessions, except for some unprecedented mishaps
1.Lynch, Kevin A. (1960) The Image of the City. 3 rd Edition.
Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press.
2. Lynch, Kevin A. (1962) Site Planning. 3 rd Edition. Massachusetts,
M.I.T. Press.
Texts and
3. Alexander, C. (1987) A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for
references:
Environmental Structure Series, Vol. 6). 1st Edition. Oxford, Oxford
University Press.
4. LaGro, James A. Jr. 2008. Site Analysis: A Contextual Approach to
Sustainable Land Planning and Site Design John Wiley & Sons: “Shaping
the Built Environment,” 3-22

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