Overview
This unit provides a broad and coherent study of urban design with some depth in specialist areas. These studies will develop your creative skills and critical judgement of urban design issues that are essential in professional practice, thus necessary content in the Bachelor of Building Design course. Topics review and deepen your existing knowledge of sustainable communities, environmental issues, and the movement of pedestrians and traffic in urban development. Specialist focus on heritage, diverse cultures, urban poverty, human behaviour, and emergency management in urban locations will be introduced. These studies and assessment tasks will develop skills in the exercise of critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems. You will undertake teamwork to collaboratively and responsibly evaluate strategies in urban design.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: BLAR11045 and BLAR12036
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Feedback
The content of the lectures is presented in a way that keeps everyone engaged and fosters a clear understanding of urban design principles.
The lectures will continue to be delivered in a similar fashion.
Feedback from Student Feedback
The teamwork assessment is a great opportunity to work together with and learn from others whilst still allowing individual creativity and ensuring that the focus remains on the brief.
The teamwork assessment will continue to form the focus of this unit and be structured in the same way.
Feedback from Student Feedback
Developing a large site as a team is great preparation for entering the workforce as a Building Designer.
Students will continue to work as a team on the development of a large site to prepare for entering the workforce.
Feedback from Student Feedback
There is a big gap in students drawing capabilities.
The University recently began offering ArchiStar to support CAD learning and is currently in the process of designing a CAD unit.
- Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
- Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
- Adapt knowledge and skills to include diverse cultural needs and sustainable communities in urban design
- Participate effectively in collaborative team activities.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||
2 - Written Assessment - 60% | |||||
3 - Online Test - 15% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
1 - Communication | |||||
2 - Problem Solving | |||||
3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
4 - Information Literacy | |||||
5 - Team Work | |||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
8 - Ethical practice | |||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 60% | ||||||||||
3 - Online Test - 15% |
Textbooks
The City Reader
7th edition (2020)
Authors: Le Gates, R. T., and Stout, F., Eds
Routledge
New York New York , USA
ISBN: ISBN 9780367204792
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microphone and camera for use with Zoom
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.flowers@cqu.edu.au
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Introduction and Overview
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The Evolution of Cities
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Urban Design Theory - Visions & Reality
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Urban Design Theory - Spatial Relationships
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Urban Design for Human Behaviour
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Patterns of Pedestrian and Transport Movement
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Residential, Recreational, Commercial & Industrial Issues in Urban Design
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Regulation, Finances and Marketing in Urban Development
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Assignment 2 Team Presentation
Assignment 2 Due: Week 11 Monday (31 Jan 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
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1 Written Assessment
This assessment task comprises a report with plans. You will analyse a given city and one of the city’s suburbs in order to gain an understanding of the context of a development site from an urban perspective.
Full and detailed briefing for this assignment will be available in the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Week 3 Friday (26 Nov 2021) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 5 Friday (17 Dec 2021)
The assessment criteria used are:
- Comprehensive analysis of heritage and environmental issues in urban renewal
- Propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design in a way that is sensitive to the surrounding environment as well as the needs of the user
Marks will be allocated as specified in the assignment brief in the Assessment Block in Moodle.
- Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
- Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Written Assessment
This assessment task comprises a report with plans and has a team work component. You will choose a team and will design a development located in the suburb that was researched in the first assignment. The design will be presented in draft version Week 5 and the final design will be presented in Week 11. A self and peer assessment survey will be conducted during the course of the assessment in which you will have the opportunity to review your own and the team's performance.
Full and detailed briefing for this assignment will be available in the Assessment Block in Moodle.
Week 11 Monday (31 Jan 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Team Submission via Moodle Portal on Due Date; Presentation to be held after due date in Week 11
Exam Week Tuesday (15 Feb 2022)
The assessment criteria used are:
- Comprehensive analysis of heritage and environmental issues in urban renewal
- Propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design in a way that is sensitive to the surrounding environment as well as the needs of the user
- Convincingly adapt knowledge and skills to include diverse cultural needs and sustainable communities in urban design
- Participate effectively in collaborative team activities.
Marks will be allocated as specified in the assignment brief in the Assessment Block in Moodle.
- Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
- Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
- Adapt knowledge and skills to include diverse cultural needs and sustainable communities in urban design
- Participate effectively in collaborative team activities.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Online Test
The online test will open on Friday Week 12.
The test has a 120 minute duration and will cover the unit content.
This is a "one attempt only" test.
Further information will be available on the Moodle site.
Please note: Results for this assessment will be made available to students after the date of the quiz closing and before 01.03.22
Exam Week Friday (18 Feb 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
before Tuesday 01/03/2022
Test and apply knowledge based on the unit topics.
- Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
- Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
- Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.