Planning Studio VI

At the end of this course, students are expected to: 1. demonstrate competences in Central Areas’ Planning/Urban Design; 2. illustrate skills in Methodology and techniques of designing central areas of towns and city; 3. conduct surveys to delineate the central area and its sphere of influence; 4. identify its functions and problems such as traffic, land-use density; and 5. carry out the planning, redesigning, redevelopment in two and three dimensions of central areas within an identified urban area in regional context.

Projects on city centre renewal and devising appropriate planning solutions with emphasis on the urban metropolitan core area. Methods and techniques of preparing local plans, briefs should include; a case study of a particular metropolitan area, survey of identified area, design of questionnaires, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings and presentation of technical reports to be submitted after presentations to the external examiner. The presentations which must be in AutoCAD or GIS, must be in 2D and 3D; and accompanied by a model of the improved situation of the metropolitan area.