310405 (v.1) The Evolution of the City 514

Area:	Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit introduces students with no previous coursework to the concepts of urbanism, urbanity, and the changing form and meaning of the city. Students will examine the forces that have shaped urban form through history, the factors that are influencing urban development decisions today, and how they are likely to change in the future. By tracing the influence of different factors through history, the unit aims to stimulate students to speculate on the challenges of our swiftly changing world and the types of design responses required to meet them.
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Field of Education:	040103 Urban Design and Regional Planning
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External