Conveners
SS_11 THE VALUE AND ROLE OF DESIGN IN PLANNING EDUCATION
- Juliana Martins (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)
- Manuela Madeddu (University of Liverpool)
- Piotr Kryczka (University of Wrocลaw)
Urban design is integral to planning education. Although its weight in planning programmes varies considerably (Frank, 2006), the knowledge and skills that planners acquire through an integrative design focus in their education are fundamental to addressing the complex challenges of cities. However, teaching design to planners poses a variety of challenges. Senbel (2012, p. 449) identifies ...
Urban design education, unfortunately, holds a marginal position within spatial planning curricula in Poland (Belof & Kryczka, 2024). This situation stems from the absence of coherent program requirements and recent (2022) formal classification of spatial planning field of study to the discipline of human geography. As a result, there has been a radical weakening of the educational links...
The historical archives of the Royal Town Planning Institute recently digitised by the Hathi Trust cover the period from establishing the Institute through to the 1990โs, and offer a rich record of activities undertaken within planning practice from 1914-1993. In this paper I discuss my findings based on a purposive qualitative review of these archives relating to planning education, focusing...
The extent to which urban design is part of planning education can vary between countries and even within a country between specific university programmes. The mode of teaching urban design (studio project versus lecture) can also vary (Faga, 2019). Being educated as a planner in Germany where urban design is a key part of planning curricula, it always surprised me that this can be different...
The paper will present and discuss challenges in interdisciplinary student collaboration where the students have different skills and experiences in design and visualization. The paper is based on the reflections on ten years of teaching โProjects in urban development: Architecture, form and spaceโ course. Approximately 60 students participate every year and belong to three different masterโs...
Recent scholarship challenges solely human-centric approaches to urban design (Yigitcanlar et al., 2019), suggesting a shift in perspective. Consequently, there is a growing recognition of more-than-human perspectives, asking for better integration of designers' views for urban cohabitation (Metzger 2023; Roudavski 2021), for example in the context of urban placemaking in public spaces (Sheikh...
This paper focuses on the creation and implementation of a post-professional graduate program on urban development and design at UNSW, the Master of Urban Development and Design (MUDD).
The program was conceived with the conviction that urban design only has purchase on the reality of city making as an integral component of urban development. The complexity of this interrelationship demands...
Urban planning education faces challenges related to rapid global change, social and spatial transformations in cities, and climate change. It promotes sustainable practices, place-making, and participatory models while emphasising interdisciplinarity as essential for addressing contemporary urban issues. New educational approaches must incorporate emerging technologies and renew existing...
Planning education as a field characterised by epistemological diversity integrates disciplines such as social sciences, engineering, architecture and natural sciences. However, in regions without dedicated planning schoolsโsuch as universities in Central Americaโplanning is often taught as a module within undergraduate or postgraduate programs in engineering or architecture. Consequently,...
The application of urban design theories and methods in a studio setting if fundamental in planning curricula as it allows us to test and visualize the physical and spatial implications of what planners generate through policies, programs, zoning, and land use regulations. However, the role of these studios is threatened. Planningโs move towards the social sciences shifted interest towards...
