This course has three main objectives:

										
											First, to analyze the socio-environmental dimension of current urban and territorial 
dynamics and their future trends.

										
											Secondly, to know and reflect on the main instruments of public intervention for the 
planning of the territory and the management of its resources, using concepts of 
economic viability applied to different territorial scales.

										
											Finally, deepen the development of the necessary skills to be able to propose 
environmentally adapted and socially just solutions in relation to current and 
future problems that characterize the evolution of the territory and, in particular, 
of the urbanized space.

- Rurs vs. Urbs: countryside and city in the tradition of urban and territorial planning. 
From urban extensions to the garden-city.
										
											
										
											- Rural and urban spaces in the context of the current post-metropolis. 
From the 'urbanization of the countryside' to the 'dispersed regional urbanization'.
										
											
										
											- Territorial dynamics and spatial transformation in the rural world 
(evolution in three moments, XIX to XXI centuries):
										
											
										
											a) Support territories of the urban process;
										
											
										
											b) Rurbanization;
										
											
										
											c) Environmental rural tourism and energy production (energyscapes).
										
											
										
											- Territorial dynamics in relation to urbanized spaces (evolution in three moments, 
XIX to XXI centuries):
										
											
										
											a) The industrial city;
										
											
										
											b) Metropolitan areas;
										
											
										
											c) Dispersed regional urbanization.

- The planning system: territorial plans and urban plans.

- The planning process: urban plans development (urban land and urbanizable land).

- Planning with the environment: Strategic Environmental Evaluation (an introduction).
										
											
										
											- Sustainable planning: sustainability, resilience and climate change as 
current requirements for urban and territorial planning.
										
											
										
											- Sustainability criteria for rural spaces today.
										
											
										
											- Sustainability criteria for urban spaces today.
										
											
										
											- From sustainability to the 'Low-Carbon' and 'Post-oil' perspectives: 
towards 'climate-proof' urban and rural spaces.

- The expositive classes (directed activity) also incorporate discussion on text readings and 
debates regarding the key aspects of the subject.

										
											- The applied classes (directed and supervised activity) refer to the practical activities and 
exercises to be carried out in groups during the course, 
emphasizing the resolution of practices and the elaboration of results.

- The theoretical written tests correspond to the two partial exams that are proposed 
during the course. They go also hand in hand with a course work on the territory of the UAB campus.

- The tests and tasks of a practical nature correspond to the partial elaborations that 
will be required during the practical sessions and exercises of the subject (group work).

- The delivery of reports and assignments correspond to the final elaboration of 
the results of the practical group work.

- A mínimum qualification of 5 is stablished in regard to the theoretical written 
tests (average grade considering the two  partial exams proposed).

- The recuperation will consider both the theoretical written tests and the course work on the territory of the UAB campus.

- To be able to attend the reassessment (recovery), you must have attended 
2/3 of the subject's assessment activities.
- It will be considered that a student will obtain the qualification of "Not Assessable" 
if does not present the assignments (tests and tasks of a practical nature, and reports and group work), 
and/or does not appear in any partial exam.

Important note on the practical exercises

Single evaluation

- The students who have taken advantage of the single evaluation modality 
must take a final test that will consist of a theory  exam in which 
they must develop a topic and answer a series of short questions. 
Next, you will have to do a problem test where you will have to solve 
a series of exercises similar to those that have been worked on in 
the Classroom Practice sessions.

Bibliography

Bibliography

Chamberlin, S. (2009). The transition timeline for a local, resilient future. Vermont: Chelsea Green.

Esteban, J. (2011). La ordenación urbanística: conceptos, herramientas y prácticas. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Estevan, A.; Naredo, J. M. (2004). Ideas y propuestas para una nueva política del agua en España. Bilbao: Bakeaz.

Fernández Durán. R. (2006). El Tsunami urbanizador español y mundial. Bilbao. Marcial Pons.

Folch, R. (coord.) (2003). El territorio como sistema. Conceptos y herramientas de ordenación. Barcelona: Diputació de Barcelona.

Galiana, L.; Vinuesa, J. (2010). Teoría y práctica para una ordenación racional del territorio. Madrid: Síntesis.

Gifreu, J. (2012). L'ordenació urbanística a Catalunya. Barcelona: Marcial Pons.

Hopkins, R. (2008). The transition handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience. Vermont: Chelsea  Green.

Ivancic, Aleksandar (2010) Energyscapes. Gustau Gili: Barcelona.

Mata, R.; Tarroja, À. (2006). El paisaje y la gestión del territorio. Barcelona: Diputació de Barcelona.  

Moya, L. (ed.). (2011). La práctica del urbanismo. Madrid: Síntesis.

Muñoz, Francesc (2008) Urbanalización: paisajes comunes, lugares globales. Gustau Gili, Barcelona.

Muñoz, Francesc (2010) ) "La densidad urbana: de la ciudad de concentración al campo urbanizado". A Fuster Sobrepere, Joan (ed.) La agenda Cerdà. Construyendo la Barcelona metropolitana (75-114). Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona/Lunwerg.

Muñoz, Francesc (coord. 2011) Estratègies vers la ciutat de baixa densitat. De la contenció a la gestió. Col·lecció 'Estudis', 9. Diputació de Barcelona.

Nel·lo, Oriol; Muñoz, Francesc (2004). "El proceso de urbanización". A Romero, Joan (coord.) Geografía Humana. Procesos, riesgos e incertidumbres en un mundo globalizado (255-332). Barcelona: Ariel.

Nel·lo, O. (dir.) (2010). La política de paisatge a Catalunya. Barcelona: Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques.

Nel·lo, O. (2012). Ordenar el territorio. La experiencia de Barcelona y Cataluña. València: Tirant lo Blanch.

Nel·lo, Oriol; Mele, Renata (eds. 2016) Cities in the 21st Century. Routledge: London.

Pujadas, R.; Font, J. (2007). Ordenación y planificación territorial. Madrid: Síntesis.

Riba, Carles (2011). Recursos energètics i crisi. La fi de 200 anys irrepetibles. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Riddell, R. (2004), Sustainable Urban Planning. Oxford: Blackwell.

Saladié, O.; Oliveras, J. (2010). Desenvolupament sostenible. Tarragona. Publicacions URV.

Sanjuán, M. (2005). Gestió local de l'aigua. Barcelona: Fundació Pi i Sunyer.

Sassen, Saskia (2011) Ciudad y globalización.Textos urbanos. Vol. VII. El Quinde. Quito.

Satterthwaite, D. (2001). Sustainable Cities. London: Earthscan Publications.

Turiel, Antonio (2020) Petrocalipsis. Crisis energética global y cómo (no) la vamos a solucionar. Ed. Alfabeto.

World Cities Report (2016). Urbanization and Development. Emerging Futures. UNHABITAT.

World Cities Report (2020). The Value of Sustainable Urbanization. UNHABITAT.

 

Internet links (digital documents and webpages)

The City Journal.

 https://www.city-journal.org/

 The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture  (Mies van der Rohe Award by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona):

https://eumiesaward.com/archive

 SOS Brutalism (German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt):

http://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/15802395

https://www.dam-online.de

 The Historic Chart of Barcelona (Museum of History of Barcelona, MUHBA).

https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museuhistoria/en/

 The Prelinger files:

https://archive.org/details/prelinger?tab=collection

 The European Prize for Urban Public Space:

www.publicspace.org

 Comments on the visual representation of the modern city (Gustave Caillebote):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQepko6yzE

 ‘Industrial urbanization and urban change’.

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/urban-development/industrial-urbanisation-and-urban-change-m3UD5

  ‘The making of the industrial city as a social structure’.

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/urban-development/the-making-of-the-industrial-city-as-a-social-structure-oeEd4

 

Basic user-level programming: text editing, spreadsheet, 
basic digital cartography, basic tools for the presentation 
of visual information (ppt and adobe).