Course title
5M605000
Urban Land Use Planning

 nakamura hitoshi Click to show questionnaire result at 2018
Course content
This class is conducted by a colloquium style. "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" of Jane Jacobs is used for a textbook. In this book, modern urban planning are criticized fundamentally and the new prospects are presented .
This class will be useful for considering the concept of spatial planning and design. It is a related subject of the architecture internship.
Purpose of class
This class will focus on the problems of urban land use planning based on the modern urban planning system, and will focus on the possibilities and challenges of future land use planning.
Goals and objectives
  1. Students will learn about the details that Jane Jacobs insists on for "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," and will be able to explain the main concepts.
  2. Students will learn about the problems of urban land use planning based on modern urban planning system.
  3. Students will learn about the possibilities and challenges of future land use planning, and will be able to make use of it for considering the concept of planning and design.
Language
Japanese
Class schedule

 Class schedule HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) Amount of Time Required
1． Introduction: The Death and Life of Great American Cities Read relevant chapters 200minutes
2． The uses of sidewalk: safety
The uses of sidewalk: contact 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
3． The uses of sidewalk: assimilating children
The uses of neighborhood parks 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
4． The uses of city neighborhoods
The generators of diversity 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
5． The need for primary mixed uses
The need for small blocks 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
6． The need for aged buildings
The need for concentration 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
7． Some myths about diversity
The self-destruction of diversity 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
8． The curse of border vacuums
Unslumming and slumming 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
9． Gradual money and cataclysmic money
Subsidizing dwellings 		Read relevant chapters 200minutes
10． Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles Read relevant chapters 200minutes
11． Visual order: its limitations and possibilities Read relevant chapters 200minutes
12． Salvaging projects Read relevant chapters 200minutes
13． Governing and planning districts Read relevant chapters 200minutes
14． The kind of problem a city is Read relevant chapters 200minutes
Total. - - 2800minutes
Relationship between 'Goals and Objectives' and 'Course Outcomes'

 Presentations Discussions Total.
1. 20% 10% 30%
2. 20% 15% 35%
3. 20% 15% 35%
Total. 60% 40% -
Evaluation method and criteria
Final grades are computed as follows:
1. Presentations: 60%
2. Questions and answers, the exchange of opinions: 40%
Total: 100%
Textbooks and reference materials
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs（Random House, 1961, and Vintage, 1992）
Other reference books are shown as needed each time.
Prerequisites
Students will be requested to review subjects related to Urban Planning which have been learned in the undergraduate course.
Office hours and How to contact professors for questions
  • Lunch break on Thursday.
  • Room: Building No. 5 fifth floor 5522
  • Questions by email can be accepted at any time. E-mail: nakamu-h@shibaura-it.ac.jp
Relation to the environment
Environment-related course (25%)
Regionally-oriented
Regionally-oriented course
Development of social and professional independence
  • Course that cultivates an ability for utilizing knowledge
  • Course that cultivates a basic problem-solving skills
Active-learning course
Most classes are interactive
Last modified : Wed Oct 17 07:02:44 JST 2018