Urban Design for Sustainability 2008

Unit Schedule

for academic credit students:
Wednesday 5 March - Urban Design Centre
17.00 Welcome
17.15 Best Practice Urban Design:
An overview of the core elements
Munira Mackay, Mackay UD
Monday 21 April - Urban Design Centre
09.00 Registration
09.30 Welcome and introduction:
Jan Scheurer
10.00 Keynote Address:
One stone five birds: How to make lively, attractive, safe, sustainable and healthy cities
Jan Gehl (Gehl Architects, Copenhagen)
11.15 Morning Tea
11.45 The history of urban design (I):
city building from the pre-industrial era to 20th century modernism
Jan Scheurer
13.00 Lunch
14.00 The history of urban design (II):
Challenges to modernity and the sustainability agenda
Jan Scheurer
15.15 Afternoon tea
15.45 Field trip: Inner urban consolidation -
Subi Centro EPRA

Tuesday 22 April - Urban Design Centre
09.30 Why do we need a more sustainable form of urban development?
What's the difference?
Malcolm Mackay, UD
10.45 Morning tea
11.15 Liveable Neighbourhoods:
An overview of the elements
Peter Zadeian, DPI
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Making connections:
Land use and transport integration
Jan Scheurer
15.00 Afternoon tea
15.30 Field trip: Greenfield TOD - Wellard DPI, City of Kwinana
or
Briefing (for postgraduate participants enrolled for credit): Public space quality in central Perth
DPI, City of Kwinana,
Jan Gehl, Jan Scheurer

Wednesday 23 April - Urban Design Centre
09.30 Which suburbs work?
Malcolm Mackay
10.45 Morning tea
11.15 Getting results
Malcolm Mackay
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Social and behavioural aspects of urban design
Jan Scheurer
15.00 Afternoon tea
15.30 Field trip:
Suburban centre development - The urban design contribution
Peter Newman, CUSP

Thursday 24 April - Urban Design Centre
09.30 Water-sensitive urban design: Policy
Mike Mouritz, DPI
10.30 Water-sensitive urban design:
Practical implications
Dave Deeley, ASE
11.30 Morning tea
12.00 Video: Cities for people
Jan Gehl
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Fieldwork poster presentations
Participants
16.00 Afternoon tea
16.30 Briefing on design proposals
Jan Scheurer
for academic credit students:
Monday 5 May
  Fieldwork reports due
Wednesday 14 May - Urban Design Centre
17.00 Design proposals poster presentations
Participants
Monday 26 May
  Design proposals and reports due

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