Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

CIDADE E TERRITÓRIO - 2016/2017

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The opportunity and advantage of articulating Geography with Architecture define the main global aims of the curricular unity:
- Stand out the importance of cities in the civilizational process.
- Scrutinize some key-concepts to decode the urban space and its territorial dynamics.
- Reflect upon new urban forms.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Understand the importance of city knowledge in the upbringing in Architecture, so as to think city according to pre-existing models.
Settle prospective scenarios of urban-metropolitan development, applying to the portuguese city.

Skills to be acquired

Students are expected to work their critical ability, the necessity of understanding multiple areas of knowledge, the ability to exceed the common sense, the constant necessity that Architecture has to interpret the change in the city and in the territory.
The characterization of phenomena, elements or urban facts is also a competency to be worked.

Teaching Procedures

The theorical-practical classes follow a communicative approach that leads to reflection, discussion and schematic synthesis elaboration, starting from the presentation of examples (texts, images, cartography).

Programme

1. Understanding the cities and urban - concepts
1.1. The urban phenomenon: morphological, structural and functional characteristics.

2 - Understanding the cities and urban - Evolutions and critics
2.1. the decisive moments in the history of urban phenomenon;
2.2. the global scale of the urbanization process;
2.3. urban utopias of the industrial city;
2.4. the city´s role in the Fordist period;
2.5. the Fordist crisis;
2.6. the new role of the city in the post-Fordist model.

3. The urban territory: new urbanization dynamics
3.1. the centripetal models, urban expansion, deurbanization and reurbanizationt, suburbanization and gentrification;
3.2. dynamics and segregation measures
3.3. urban populations.

4. urban plans:
4.1. different types of urban plans;
4.2. main factors responsible for urban plans;
4.3. Portuguese urban plans and their influences.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation will be as settled in the "Regulamento Geral de Avaliação" of the University. It will be used the ongoing, periodical and individual evaluation.
The final evaluation includes two tests.

Teaching Resources

For the presentation/discussion of the programmatic contents it will be used: available informatics means, namely the use of PowerPoint program, multiple bibliography, cartography, photography and texts for reflection. Throughout the classes all bibliographic sources will be indicated.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

City
Urban utopia
Metapolis
Urban quality

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography