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AAR4944

Planning for Sustainability and Development

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Spring 2011
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Examination arrangement Written examination and Report

About

About the course

Course content

- Modes of Planning conducive for achieving sustained development with a particular emphasis on urban challenges. - Architecture, Construction, and Building Materials as constituting elements of ’sustainability’. - Use and Management of Natural Resources; Water, Energy, Land - Housing and settlement planning - Agents and institutions and their impact interventions and on modes of development - New Institutionalism and Endogenous Social and Economic Development

Learning outcome

The course is to give insight into how "sustainability" and "development" is interdependent in a global perspective. The course will highlight planning and implementation of physical interventions, and its underlying social and material contexts, in a developing world perspective.

Learning methods and activities

The course is given in cooperation with several departments at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, the Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, and the Faculty of Social Science and Technology Management. Weight is placed on interdisciplinary seminars with introductory speakers from other faculties and specialists with experience in development-related issues.

A case study on current building projects being planned and/or implemented in Trondheim to explore how the concepts of Development and Sustainability is actually practices in the North and how this might relate to, and bear impact on, development in the Global South.

Required previous knowledge

Completed three years basic courses in architecture, bachelor in architecture or equivalent. Registration deadline: 1. december.

Course materials

A total of about 300 pages reading material related to the topics of the lectures.

Subject areas

  • Architecture
  • Urban Design and Planning
  • Building and construction technology
  • Geography

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Faculty of Architecture and Design

Examination

Examination

Grade: Letters

Examination arrangement: Written examination and Report

Re-sit examination - Autumn 2010

Rapport
Weighting 25/100
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 75/100 Duration 5 timer Place and room Not specified yet.

Ordinary examination - Spring 2011

Rapport
Weighting 25/100
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 75/100 Date 2011-06-07 Time 09:00 Duration 5 timer Place and room Not specified yet.

Examination arrangement: Written examination and Report

Ordinary examination - Spring 2011

Rapport
Weighting 1/3
Skriftlig eksamen
Weighting 2/3 Date 2011-05-26 Time 09:00 Duration 5 timer Place and room Not specified yet.

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