MASTER IN CIVIL ENGINEERING - Faculdade de Engenharia da ...

Urban Environment and Transport
Planning
Credits Contact Time Total Time
5 ECTS 45 135
Objectives, Skills and Learning Outcomes
To provide instruments for the description and interpretation of current problems of
urban environment and transport.
To present and discuss strategies, methodologies and instruments for urban
environment and transport policies and planning.
Program
Theoretical classes
CHAPTER 1- Problems: nature, meaning and extension of environmental conflicts in
urban areas.
The urban environment in the contemporary city; Quality factors; Problems of
measurement and forecast of urban environment quality; Indicators and quality index;
Examples
Environmental conflicts; Introduction to Environment economics and Natural
resources; Public goods and externalities; price system and allocation levels of natural
resources.
Civil code agenda regarding environmental conflicts; potentialities and limitations;
critique; Introduction to environmental law
The need of administrative intervention in environmental conflicts: why?; Typology of
tools of environmental law and their relation to product-consumption model
CHAPTER 2
Methodologies: organization of urban spaces; characteristics; diagnosis and forecast
Brief reference to the main components of natural biophysical system (topography,
climate, geology, geomorphology, soils, water resources and biological resources) and
to anthropic biophysical system (soil use, landscape, heritage, environmental
pollution)
Case Study 1- Localization of equipment (inter-municipal sanitary landfill) – Application
of geographic information system (GIS) to variables of planning of natural and
anthropic biophysical systems.
Socio-economic system; Introduction to demography; the importance of demography
in urban and regional planning; main demographic variables
Study trip
Methods of demographic projection; direct and indirect methods: extrapolation
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