BLAR13053 - Urban Design and Development

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2025

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 25%
2. Written Assessment 60%
3. Online Test 15%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.

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.

Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
Students report a rich learning experience from this unit that enhances their experience of grows building design by requiring that the design is developed by working from the outside - or the urban context into the building design - rather than focussing just on the design development of the building.
Recommendation
Students will continue to develop a design for an urban area as appropriate to their research of the urban, social and environmental context.
Action Taken
Students were required to research the urban, social and environmental context to gain a deep understanding of an urban environment to create a master plan appropriate to the urban context.
Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
Working as part of team supports students learning from each other and grows professional communication skills in preparation for work in industry.
Recommendation
Students will continue to work together in teams for the main assessment item.
Action Taken
Students worked as a team and each was allocated activities to replicate a professional teamwork environment.
Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
The set of assessments connect and develop students' understanding of Urban Design and Development well as the subject develops.
Recommendation
The assessments will continue to work together to help students develop an understanding of the subject.
Action Taken
The assessments were scaffolded to develop and deepen students’ understanding of Urban Design and Development concepts and related issues.
Source: Student Unit and Teacher Evaluation (SUTE)
Feedback
The assessment and classes are interesting and challenging.
Recommendation
The assessment and classes will continue to be designed similarly.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Lecturer comment
Feedback
Students prepare to work in a professional team work environment in this unit.
Recommendation
Students must be prepared to work collaboratively and commit to regularly interacting with members of their team via Zoom and Teams in this unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse heritage and environmental issues in urban development
  2. Reflect on and propose creative strategies to accommodate the diversity of human behaviour in the design of public urban spaces
  3. Compare and modify movement of pedestrians and traffic within urban design
  4. Adapt knowledge and skills to include diverse cultural needs and sustainable communities in urban design
  5. Participate effectively in collaborative team activities.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • •
3 - Online Test • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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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 • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Written Assessment • • • • •
2 - Written Assessment • • • • • • • •
3 - Online Test • • • •