Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2503743 Management of Smart and Sustainable Cities | FB | 1 | 2 |
There are no prerequisites related to this subject, although it will be useful to have computer and statistics skills.
The subject will provide the necessary elements to acquiere and understand the cartographic conceptions for the spatial representation of territorial dynamics.
A Smart City aims to provide a high quality of life, consuming the least resources. However, in order to represent urban dynamics and analyze the city, it is essential to acquire and understand the cartographic conceptiosn for the spatial representation.
Theme 1. Introduction to cartography
Theme 2. Principles of geospatial representation: points, lines and polygons
Theme 3. Territorial scales and their functions
Theme 4. Cartograhic projections and their functions
Theme 5. Symbolization of information and graphic design
Theme 6. Data sources
The schedule, with the sequencing of the themes and the assessment activities, will be uploaded to the virtual campus at the beginning of the course.
Theoretical knowledge is introduced and reinforced through:
The technical and instrumental skills will be developed in:
All the data, tutorials and materials of the subject will be available on the Virtual Campus, regular means of communication.
To follow the course students will ve provided with a specific GIS software: ArcGis (commercial) or Qgis (open source)
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Master classes | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Training activities and a field trip | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Training activities and personal study | 43 | 1.72 | 4, 2, 5, 7, 6, 9 |
Items of the evaluation:
2 Middle term exams (theorical-practical) (20% half-semester-20% at the end of semester)
Practical exercises (40%)
Final work (20%)
Requirements for being assessed
The degree requires to attend a minimum of 80% to be evaluated. Only absences due to illnees or similar reasons ay be justifiable.
Optional tasks
During the course, it will be other optional learning activities to complement the student's education. Delivery of these practices is optional.
Requirements to pass the cours
Two requirments:
If the students do not pass the subject, the mark will be the result of the evaluation.
Other aspects
If there is no justified cause, the assessement activties will be at the day and time agreed by the university timetable.
RESIT
When the ordinary assessment has finished, if the students fail, they can do a recovery exam according to the University dates. If the student wnats to do the recovery have to:
It will only be possible to reassess the theorical and practical examn. Failed exercises may only be resit when the average mark does not reach 5. The maxim mark in case of resit is 6.
PROCEDURE FOR REVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS
For each assessment activity, the coordinator of the subject will indicatea place, date and time of the review. In this context, the student can claim about the assessment activity qualification, which will be reviewed by the coordinator of the subject. Ifthe student does not submit to this review, this assessment activity will not be reviewed later.
QUALIFICATIONS
Honors. Granting an Honor is a decision of the coordinator of the subject. The UAB regulations can only be awarded to students having obtained a final grade of at least 9. It can be granted up to 5% of Honors of the total number of students enrolled.
A Student will be considered non-evaluable (NA) when it has not been presented the assessments activities whose weight are two thirds of the total grade of the subject.
PLAGIARISM AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES
Assessment activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these assessment activities to pass the subject, this subject will be suspended directly, without opportunity to recover it in the same course. These irregularities include, among others:
REPEATING STUDENTS
In case of repeating students, the mark of thepractices of the previous course cannot be validated. Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the current academic regulations, irregularities committed by a student who may lead to a variation of the qualification in an assessable activity will be graded with zero (0).
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Autonomous practices | 40 | 30 | 1.2 | 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 7, 6, 9 |
Final work. Cartographic composition and data sources searching | 20 | 26 | 1.04 | 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 7, 8, 6, 9 |
Theorical exam and practical exam | 40 | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 3, 7, 6 |
CARTOGRAPHY MANUALS
Barber, P. (2006) El gran libro de los mapas, trad. en castellà. Barcelona: Paidós.
Dent, B.; Torguson, J. and Hodler, T. (2008) Cartography: Thematic Map Design. 6th edition. Boston: WCB /McGrawHill.
Joly, F. (1988) La cartografía, trad. en castellà. Vilassar de Mar (Barcelona): OikosTau.
Rabella, J.M., Panareda, J.M., Ramazzini, G. (2011). Diccionari terminològic de cartografia. Enciclopèdia Catalana i Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona. 417 p. Consultable a http://www.termcat.cat/ca/Diccionaris_En_Linia/197
Robinson, A.H.; Morrison, J.L.; Muehrcke, P.C.; Kimerling, A.J. and Guptill, S.C. (1995) Elements of Cartography. 6th edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons
GIS MANUALS
Bernhardsen, Tor. Geographic information system: An introduction. Nova York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Burrough, P. A. Principles of Geographical Information Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Comas Vila, David. Fundamentos de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Barcelona: Ariel, 1993.
Gutierrez Puebla, Javier; GOULD, Michael. SIG: Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Madrid: Síntesis, 1994.
Nunes, J. (2012). Diccionari terminològic de sistemes d'informació geogràfica. Enciclopèdia Catalana i Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona. 551 p. Retrieved from http://www.termcat.cat/ca/Diccionaris_En_Linia/197
Oyala, V. (2011). Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Retrieved from http://volaya.github.io/libro-sig
To follow the course students will ve provided with a specific GIS software: ArcGis (commercial) or Qgis (open source).