Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

As you enter the second year of your Urban & Regional Planning studies, you will need practical skills to define valid planning aims and methods. Effective and beneficial planning must be based on a clear understanding of the ways in which land uses respond to underlying activities and these activities are influenced by social values and power relations. This understanding of processes will help you develop professional methods that can then be applied to the variety of situations and scales that you will experience in the course of your professional career. Many of the methods and techniques imparted in this unit are designed to assist work in UDB265, Site Planning.

Aims

To develop knowledge of planning processes and skills of problem solving and plan development and evaluation.

Objectives

On completion of this unit, you will be able you to:
1. understand and practice planning as a creative and problem solving activity;
2. understand and apply the principles and practices of effective and sensitive community and professional consultation;
3. understand and apply the logic of land use generation to satisfy underlying values and activities throughout a wide range of scales and situations;
4. Appreciate the relationships between statutory land use planning and holistic community planning.

Content

This unit commences with a review of basic planning issues, including the roles of creativity, the implications of different theories of knowledge, the logic of land use generation, and the place of community consultation in planning. From these is developed a cyclical and cumulative planning process including objective formulation, information and resource analysis, synthesis in policy formulation, development and evaluation of strategies and proposals, implementation and monitoring. The unit concludes with a discussion of the relations between statutory land use and broader community planning.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

The unit is conducted over 13 three-hour sessions. Lectures and tutorials examine and explain the logic, role and methods of successive stages of the planning and design process and apply them to situations encountered in practice by students. The use of the three-hour time period varies to suit the material being discussed, but the normal pattern includes:

a. A one and a half hour period of lecture and discussion during which you are encouraged to ask questions and raise issues relating to your current learning, personal experience and reading.

b. A one and a half hour period of tutorials working in small groups to apply lecture content to practical work designed to run in parallel with the sequence of process lectures

Learning approaches: Problem solving; Team based; Experiential; Reflective; Exposition; Individual Self learning and Presentation

Assessment

The assessment for this unit follows the assessment policy stated in the Manual of Policies and Procedures (MOPP) section C/5.1.1 .The lecture sessions are designed in an inclusive style intended to provide time and opportunities for students to ask questions and receive feedback. The tutorial sessions provide small group and individual guidance for both the mid-semester test and the review paper.

Assessment name: Examination (Theory)
Description: This test examines your understanding of basic planning processes communicated in the first half of the semester, including the philosophical and political contexts of land use planning; how to relate land uses to values and activities; consultation requirements; objective setting; and information collection and analysis.
Relates to objectives: 1. understand and practice planning as a creative and problem solving activity;
2. understand and apply the principles and practices of effective and sensitive community and professional consultation;
3. understand and apply the logic of land use generation to satisfy underlying values and activities throughout a wide range of scales and situations;
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: week 8

Assessment name: Research Paper
Description: The Practice Review Paper of approx 2,500 words plus appendices provides an opportunity to apply the unit's concepts and processes to evaluate your own work, or work with which you are thoroughly familiar in a practical planning project. You should reflect on what has, and what has not, produced desired results in this work. You should consider its aims, methods, logic and effectiveness, in the light of ideas communicated in the course of this unit. You should also demonstrate understanding of the relationship between site planning and the broader concerns of community planning, including how best to conduct consultation, feedback and participation.
Relates to objectives: 1. understand and practice planning as a creative and problem solving activity;
2. understand and apply the principles and practices of effective and sensitive community and professional consultation;
3. understand and apply the logic of land use generation to satisfy underlying values and activities throughout a wide range of scales and situations;
4. Appreciate the relationships between statutory land use planning and holistic community planning
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: week 15

Assessment name: Presentation (Oral or Group)
Description: You will contribute to team workshops to solve problems, produce proposals and present findings; and submit a Journal with one to two paragraphs of self review and learning summary for each of the 13 weekly tutorials

Journal in Week 14
Relates to objectives: 1. understand and practice planning as a creative and problem solving activity;
2. understand and apply the principles and practices of effective and sensitive community and professional consultation;
3. understand and apply the logic of land use generation to satisfy underlying values and activities throughout a wide range of scales and situations;
4. Appreciate the relationships between statutory land use planning and holistic community planning
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 14

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Materials and Equipment
Students are recommended to buy from the University Bookshop a copy of the unit lecture note booklet, which is cheaper than printing out the notes from the Blackboard site. Copies are also available for consultation free of charge in the Library.

Recommended references
There are no set texts for this unit, but copies of books marked with "*" are in the QUT Gardens Point Bookshop and are worth acquiring for use throughout your planning career.

*Alexander, C (1979) Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard Uni Press
Alexander, C (1987) A New Theory of Urban Design, Oxford, OUP
Alexander, C (2003) The Nature of Order, Book One The Phenomenon of Life, Book Two, The Process of Creating Life, Book Three, A Vision of a Living World, Book Four, The Luminous Ground, Berkeley, California, Center for Environmental Structure
Brisbane City Council, (1999), City Plan (Copy in Resource Centre)
Campbell, S & Fainstein, S. (1997) Readings in Planning Theory Maldon, Mass, Blackwell.
Chapin, F and Kaiser, E (1979) Urban Land Use Planning, 3rd edition, Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press.
Engwicht, D. (1993) EcoCity, Sydney, Envirobooks.
Faludi A (1989) A Decision Centred View of Environmental Planning, Oxford Pergamon.
Foley, D (1971) "An Approach to Metropolitan Spatial Structures" in Webber M (Ed) Exploration into Urban Structure University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
*Forester, J (2000) The Deliberative Practitioner,
*Gaarder J (1995) Sophie's World (the novel that thinks its a history of philosophy) London, Phoenix House.
Habermas J (1987) The Theory of Communicative Action, Polity Press, Cambridge.
*Healey, P., 2006, Collaborative Planning, London, Macmillan Palgrave.
*Hall, P (1988) Cities of Tomorrow, Blackwell, Oxford
Hall P (1986 Urban & Regional Planning, Blackwell Oxford.
*Heywood, P (1997) The Emerging Social Metropolis, Progress in Planning 47, Part 3, Elsevier/ Pergamon, Oxford.
Heywood, P (1974) Planning & Human Need, David & Charles, Devon.
Heywood, P (1990) "Social Justice and Planning for the Public Interest" Urban Policy & Research Vol 8 No 2.
Heywood P & E and Johnson L (1995) A Decade of Strategic Action Plans for Local Communities in V. Popovic et al (Eds) Design for the Community, QUT, Brisbane. (Copy in Resource Centre)
Jacobs J (1993) Death and Life of Great American Cities (new edition) Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin.
Jacobs J (1992) Systems of Survival, London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Kaiser E, Godschalk D and Chapin F 1995, Urban Land Use Planning Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press.
Koestler, A (1968) The Sleepwalkers & (1980) The Act of Creation, Penguin
Kozlowski, J and Hill G (1993) Towards Planning for Sustainable Development, A Guide for the Ultimate Environmental Threshold (UET) Method, Aldershot UK, Ashgate.
Lichfield, N (1976) Evaluation in Planning, Pergamon
*Magee, B (1986) Popper, Fontana, London.
*Magee, B (1987) The Great Philosophers, BBC London
Midgley, M (1979) Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature, London, and Bantam
Popper, K, (Revised 1989) Objective Knowledge, Oxford, OUP
Prest A & Turvey R (1965) "Cost Benefit Analysis: A Survey" The Economic Journal, Vol LXXV, Dec 1965.
Queensland Government Department of Infrastructure & Planning, South East Queensland Regional Plan, 2009-2031, Author, Brisbane
Queensland Government, Department of Infrastructure & Planning, 2008, South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan & Program , 2008- 2031, Author, Brisbane
SEQ 2021, 2003, Performance Monitoring Review, Brisbane, Author
SEQ 2021, 2003, Issues and Options Papers, Brisbane Author,:
Aboriginal & Islander People,
Arts & cultural development
Centres and Residential Development
Economic Development & Information and communication Strategies
Energy & Greenhouse
Infrastructure Coordination & Funding
Regional landscape
Social Justice and Human Services
Recreation & Sport
Sustainability Indicators
Transport
Reade, E (1986) British Town and Country Planning, Milton Keynes UK, The Open University.
Webber M (Ed) Exploration into Urban Structure , Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press

Risk assessment statement

This unit may involve individual or instructor-led site visits. You must have attended a construction safety induction session and have a safety induction card. The school provides a safety induction course in the first week of students' first semester introducing students to the relevant workplace health and safety requirements of Queensland construction sites.

Additional Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 19-Oct-2012