Course Outline
ENP355 Neighbourhood Planning and Design - Studio III
Course Coordinator:Nicholas Stevens (nstevens@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
2024Semester 1
UniSC Sunshine Coast |
Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Please go to usc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
What is this course about?
Description
You will gain practical experience in planning and urban design, both individually and in small groups, as you work on the development or redevelopment of an urban area at the neighbourhood scale. The course materials and assessment incrementally build knowledge to allow you to develop design skills and capabilities within the context of strategic planning and urban design frameworks. There will be a focus on spatial analysis, urban form, and designing and delivering mixed use communities. Your design and justification will be developed to professional standards for presentation to a client.
How will this course be delivered?
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
| Blended learning | |||
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – 3 hour workshop each week | 3hrs | Week 1 | 11 times |
| Fieldwork – Fieldtrip to be advised by Course Coordinator | 8hrs | Week 4 | Once Only |
Course Topics
Community and site context and analysis
Place-making, social opportunities and human scale
Urban design principles and practice – “marketing places”
Urban feasibility, including planning scheme and policy requirements
Concept design for community development
Consolidating planning and design practice
What level is this course?
300 Level (Graduate)
What is the unit value of this course?
12 units
How does this course contribute to my learning?
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Planning Institute of Australia | |
| 1 | Understand and identify natural and cultural environmental processes; urban and regional economies; and social and demographic parameters. | Sustainability-focussed |
2.1.6, 3.1.1, 3.4.5, 3.5.4, 3.6.2, 3.4 |
| 2 | Recognise and apply relevant planning legislation and policy as it relates to the project site. | Engaged |
2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.4, 2.3.6, 3.1.3 |
| 3 | Synthesise various forms of data to identify problems and opportunities and formulate objectives and solutions to resolve issues. | Sustainability-focussed |
2.1.4, 2.2.8, 3.4.1, 3.4.2 |
| 4 | Communicate in a professional manner via verbal, written and graphic media | Empowered |
2.1.11, 2.1.7, 2.2.8, 2.1 |
* Competencies by Professional Body
| CODE | COMPETENCY |
| Planning Institute of Australia | |
| 2.1.6 | Capacity to make appropriate choices in ethically ambiguous situations based on knowledge of social, economic, environmental, and cultural aspects of planning |
| 2.3.1 | Capacity to interpret and use land tenure systems and relevant acts and case law to undertake typical plan-making and implementation actions with regard to planning law requirements |
| 2.3.2 | Knowledge of wider legal and related governmental principles and frameworks underpinning planning, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law, lore, governance systems and customs. |
| 2.3.4 | Knowledge of the principles and practices of legal interpretation and the drafting of legislation and regulations. |
| 2.3.6 | Capacity to act in typical planning roles using planning law, such as giving basic advice about fundamental principles to lay people and other professionals. |
| 2.1.4 | Knowledge of and capacity to use relevant technical tools for data collection, analysis and mapping, and have knowledge of quantitative methods, spatial mapping, relevant digital software, and geographic information systems (GIS) |
| 2.2.8 | Capacity to gather qualitative and quantitative data relevant to different planning circumstances including global trends and emerging issues, to analyse it and to communicate its relevance and any shortcomings of findings |
| 2.1.11 | Capacity to communicate in written, oral, and graphical form about planning issues, development proposals and actions via a range of media to various audiences in a manner appropriate to the situation |
| 2.1.7 | Capacity to work productively as an individual or in a team, with other planners, or with multidisciplinary and diverse groups, including lay people, while representing and maintaining professional opinions and standards |
| 2.1 | Professional and Ethical Planning Practice |
| 3.1.1 | Ability to understand the different cultural beliefs and assumptions built into various theories and methods of planning practice, the ways those methods and assumptions have been used to marginalise and dispossess Indigenous peoples, the contribution Indigenous perspectives and theories are able to make to mainstream theories, and how their rights may be better recognised and accommodated through planning systems. |
| 3.4.5 | Recognition of social and cultural diversity and the capacity to assess the equity, health and social inclusion aspects of urban and regional plans and practices. |
| 3.5.4 | Capacity to understand and critique key concepts in transport economics and project planning. |
| 3.6.2 | Capacity to read and understand drawings and plans, including visualisation of the items represented, and to recognise and be able to critique inadequate drawings and representations. |
| 3.1.3 | A sound working knowledge of how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights and interests are recognised and protected under Australian law including through land rights schemes, cultural heritage and its protection, joint management arrangements, and native title legislation. |
| 3.4.1 | Knowledge of the main sources of information about communities, including census and survey data. |
| 3.4.2 | Ability to undertake basic primary and secondary data gathering and analysis utilising quantitative and qualitative methods |
| 3.4 | Social Planning |
Am I eligible to enrol in this course?
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Pre-requisites
ENP255
Co-requisites
Not applicable
Anti-requisites
ENP704
Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)
Not applicable
How am I going to be assessed?
Grading Scale
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Details of early feedback on progress
Timely and detailed feedback is provided for each assessment. Feedback is provided both within text and general comments to build scholarly skills. Students are able to seek feedback through face-to-face discussion with the course coordinator. Tutorials will include extended discussion and review of the assessment task requirements
Assessment tasks
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Report | Individual | 30% | 1200 words |
Week 4 | In Class |
| All | 2 | Report | Group | 35% | 1300 words / student |
Week 8 | In Class |
| All | 3 | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | Individual | 35% | 1000 words and 1 x A1 design board |
Week 13 | In Class |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Community and Regional Analysis | |
| Goal: | This task will enable you to understand and identify natural and cultural environmental processes; urban and regional economies; and social and demographic parameters of the case study site and community. |
| Product: | Report |
| Format: | You will prepare a a written and illustrated community analysis report. This will include factual, descriptive and illustrated site, local and regional analysis, including data collected form the field trip. Considerations to be presented will include: - Identification of all relevant stakeholders - Location and community context, including planning scheme provisions - Social, economic, environmental and transport attributes and the range of spatial and physical features influencing site development - Interpretation and analyses of the relevant opportunities and challenges across site, local and regional scales |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Vision and Concept Plans | |
| Goal: | Building from your community analysis you will develop a vision and a number of development concepts for the case study site and community. |
| Product: | Report |
| Format: | In groups, you will develop a vision showing evolution from, and relationship to, the community analysis and the client needs. You will also develop concepts for the case study site including the identification of lot yield and how they meet government development criteria including density requirements. They will respond to urban design principles and identify the elements of urban structure required to support the vision. This report has a written component but is primarily a document that uses plans, maps, images, graphics and captions to convey the vision. |
| Criteria: |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Detailed Design & Presentation | |
| Goal: | This task is will enable you to understand how principles of urban design, and the concepts you have developed are represented at the human scale. You will also be required to present and communicate your understanding and ideas in a creative, engaging and professional way |
| Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Oral |
| Format: | Individually you will prepare a detailed design of a site from your concepts. This document has a written component but is primarily a document that uses plans, maps, images, graphics and captions to convey the message. For the presentation component you will produce an A1 board presenting your design outcome |
| Criteria: |
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Directed study hours
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
What resources do I need to undertake this course?
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Prescribed text(s) or course reader
Specific requirements
Nil
How are risks managed in this course?
What administrative information is relevant to this course?
Assessment: Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Assessment: Additional Requirements
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct.
Assessment: Submission penalties
Late submission of assessment tasks may be penalised at the following maximum rate: - 5% (of the assessment task's identified value) per day for the first two days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - 10% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the third day - 20% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the fourth day and subsequent days up to and including seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - A result of zero is awarded for an assessment task submitted after seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. Weekdays and weekends are included in the calculation of days late. To request an extension you must contact your course coordinator to negotiate an outcome.
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For help with course-specific advice, for example what information to include in your assessment, you should first contact your tutor, then your course coordinator, if needed.
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