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Residential Community/Neighbourhood Design. Neighbourhood Design and Housing Layout. Concept of planned and integrated development of residential areas. Spatial differentiation into distinct units of neighbourhood, and the physical, social and functional components of the neighbourhood units, its structure and density. Design of housing layout and plot subdivision as a detailed aspect of neighbourhood planning based on relevant environmental factors (topography and vegetation). Preparation of a detailed layout of a would-be site, including quantitative projections for anticipated population densities, site occupancy, two- and three-dimensional forms.

Traffic and Transportation Planning and Design. Studio project in traffic and transportation planning in a small town or a part of a city. Applications of principles and analytical techniques of urban traffic planning. Traffic surveys; 0-D surveys, cordon counts, parking surveys and accident surveys. Analysis and presentation of traffic data; forecasting future traffic; transportation networks planning and traffic routing; road geometric design, carry a design to solve an identified traffic problem in the society.

Urban renewal and assessment of housing needs, housing problems and devising of appropriate solution. Goals, principles and methods of urban renewal. Social culture and socio- economic effects of urban renewal. costs and benefits of urban renewal schemes. Management of urban schemes. Case studies of urban renewal schemes. Students are therefore expected to conduct preliminary field survey, carry out a design of questionnaires, collect data, analyse and come up with a design as a solution to urban decay in a core area of a chosen inner city.

Comprehensive Urban Planning: Introduces the students to the concepts of comprehensive urban development and its application to small and medium size settlements, field survey, data collection, analysis of data and projection models, development criteria including plan goals and objectives, master plan for the future growth of the settlement, AutoCAD and modelling. Production of a regional master plan.

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.

Field survey, data collection, analysis and production of a new tow, The design of new towns and capital cities and their respective master and structure plans. Socio-cultural, environmental and aesthetic considerations of settlement design. The studio project will synthesize design concepts and design techniques applicable to pre-planned new settlements in Nigeria. Produce a two- and three-dimensional perspectives of the design new town.

The purpose, philosophy and nature of planning. The scope and limit of urban and regional planning. Framework for planning and the political, social and economic variables. Ethics and social justice in planning and rising conflicts. Theories in/for planning and theories of planning. The nature of planning theory. Theory of planning and theory in planning. Normative descriptive, and prescriptive theories of planning. Evolution of town planning philosophy. The planning process, management and decision – making in planning process; the dynamic of political, social, cultural and economic variables. The planner’s role and functions. Citizen’s participation and evaluation in the planning process.

Introduction to GIS basic principles; GIS components; Subsystems; the basic concepts of space (spatial modelling); components of a spatial database, spatial data model; Geoinformatics tools. Introduction to GIS. Hardware and software requirements of GIS. Database management structure and formats. Vector data structure. Raster data structure. Data imputing, editing and topology in GIS. Integration of spatial and non-spatial data. Spatial data analysis (vector-based) and spatial data analysis (raster based). Remote sensing and GIS data integration. Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Urban and regional planning-residential, commercial, transportation, recreational, open space and many others. 400 Level Urban and Regional Planning

Concept in landscape planning and design; Basic elements of landscape; History of landscape planning; Definition and scope of landscape planning, design and basic elements of landscape. Principles of landscaping. Landscape design process (site survey, site analysis, detailed design and implementation) factors influencing landscape design. Landscape evaluation techniques. Typology of human landscape. Landscape design consideration for housing, shopping, institutional, industrial, roads, agricultural, forestry, mining, outdoor recreation spaces, open spaces, urban parks and tourist development. Management of landscape.

The ethics of preparing land use/master plans: Principles of writing planning briefs, pitfalls in planning, communication, technical reporting and graphic technique. The roles of the planner in government and the private sector are defined in relation to planning responsibility and the decision-making process. The organization of the planning office, the selection of an interdisciplinary team and management and leadership techniques. Planning office procedures, contract terms, conditions and agreements. Preparation and submission requirements for a proposed project. Procedures for project team selection. Stages of project approval, nomination and assessment of project by various authorities. The structure of fees, code of conduct and professional ethics.