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SYLLABUS GUIDELINES


1 Discipline - Sustainable Development and Environmental Сomplex Assessment
2 Degree program in - Constructions
3 Profile - Spatial planning and management of territorial development
4 Qualification (degree) - Master
5 Mode of study - Full-time
6 Overall workload (ECTS) - 3
7 Semester - 1st 
8 Module type - Compulsory
9 Summative assessment - The course grade is based on three equally weighted assignments, each worth up to 50 points.
Excellent grade - 41-50 points
Good grade - 31-40 points
Satisfactory grade - 21-30 points

10 Aims
The course aims students to examine and evaluate the core principles and practices of sustainability by addressing a range of issues:
• appropriate spatial and temporal scales of sustainable planning;
• systems and standards best suitable for achieving sustainable outcomes;
• individual vs. collective responsibilities; and interdependence of ecology, economy, empowerment/engagement in civic revitalization.

11 Competences to be developed:

Generic:
- To communicate the sustainable urbanism concepts and recommendations to the general public with the help of clear, accurate text and graphics in documents and oral presentations.
- To describe and explain how the sustainable urbanism tools, strategies and measures covered in this course can be used to influence the contemporary and future metropolis.
- To comprehend and differentiate among the goals which an individual, a group, a community or an organization holds when considering the future with respect to values of justice, equity, fairness, efficiency, order and beauty.
Specific:
-- To use problem solving skills to select, diagnose and solve relevant aspects of a complex planning with respect to the needs and interests of diverse stakeholders.
- To know social and spatial structure of urban and regional systems, i.e. local financial, economic and infrastructure provisions etc..
- To differentiate public, private and nonprofit institutions shaping and responding to planning-related activities and policies at local to global level.
- To use research skills to identify, test and evaluate empirical relationships of urban settlements and to conduct such research from conception to completion.

12 Learning outcomes  

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Examine key urbanization processes with urban sustainability implications.
2. Present and reflect on theories and frameworks used in conceptualizing the relationship between human activities and the environment in urban areas.
3. Describe and explain various dimensions of urban sustainability and the relationships between them.
4. Identify and examine the opportunities and challenges in applying sustainable urbanism alternatives while selecting sites.
5. Develop recommendations to advance urban sustainability in general and/or offer solutions to alleviate specific urban environmental problems.
6. Evaluate the environmental impacts of urban design and policy decisions and describe how different alternatives can negatively or positively impact sustainability.

13 Bibliography

1. Cartwright, T. ‘Planning and Chaos Theory’, Journal of the American Planning Association, 57(1), 1991.
2. Catonese, A. J. Planners and Local Politics: Impossible Dreams, Beverley Hills, Sage Publications, 1974.
3. Cavanagh, J. and F. Clairmonte. The Transnational Economy, Institute for Policy Studies,Washington, 1982.
4. Cervero, R. ‘Congestion Relief: The Land Use Alternative’, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 10 (2), 1991.
5. Chadwick, G. F. A Systems View of Planning, London, Pergamon Press, 1971.
6. Chárles, Prince of Wales. A Vision of Britain, Doubleday, 1989.
7. Checkland, P. B. ‘The Application of Systems Thinking in Real-World Problem Situations:
8. The Emergence of Soft Systems Methodology’, in New Directions in Management Science (ed. M. C. Jackson), Gower, 1987.
9. Chiras, D. D. Lessons for Nature: Learning to Live Sustainably on the Earth, Island Press, 1992.
10. Chisholm, M. Regions in Recession and Resurgence, Unwin Hyman, 1990.
11. Christaller, W. Die Zentralen Orte in Sutteutschland, Jena, 1933.
12. Cloke, P. and J. Little. The Rural State? Limits to Planning in Rural Society, Clarendon Press, 13. Oxford, 1990.
14. Robinson, J. with G. Francis, R. Legge and S. Lerner. ‘Defining a Sustainable Society’,
15. Alternatives: Perspectives on Society Technology and Environment, 17 (2), 1990.
16. Rogers, Lord. Report of the Urban Task Force, Department of the Environment-Spon, 1999.

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