Course Overview

Students of this course are expected to learn the concepts and techniques that planners use to understand spatial, economic, social and morphological dynamics of urban and regional systems. The course aims at exploring various analytical techniques which have been developed and applied in urban and regional analysis in planning practice.

Course Objectives

The course will help students to achieve knowledge on:

·       contemporary social, economic, political and spatial urban issues and recognize the most appropriate methods for examining particular urban planning issues

·       quantitative data about real-life urban environments and this skill will be used to  analyse urban problems

·       Using a variety of software and analytical tools to analyze built environment data and spatial relationships, and present findings 

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

Upon completion of the course the students will be able to:

·       Analyse demographic, economic and spatial process that cause the dynamics of the urban systems;

·       Compute different kinds of projection techniques of urban and regional systems;

·       Examine and analyze the process of urban land use pattern;

·       Develop relation among urban spatial structure and socio-economic dynamics;