AD2840 Sustainable Design in the Urban Space 7.5 credits
This course has been discontinued.
Last planned examination: Spring 2022
Decision to discontinue this course:
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Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
SDUS is structured to deliver four coherent packages of knowledge and skill, each building on the last, to inculcate in urban planners/designers a robust, useable and updateable base for application in research and professional application. Each package has the following objective:
· beginnings: Orientation in general sustainability issues
· principles: Understanding of the systematic base of environmental sustainability.
· methods: Review of methods for sustainable urban design.
practice: Exploration of techniques for project development, based on emerging best-practice.
The teaching mode of SDUS is intended to stimulate original thought, critical commentary, systematic analysis and research, study collaboration, professional experience and creative project development
Intended learning outcomes
Sustainable Design in the Urban Space (SDUS) is a module in four parts intended to give advanced students of urban planning and design a structured, practical perspective on environmental sustainability.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
120 p from architecture, landscape architecture or planning programs on graduate level.
Recommended prerequisites
120 p from architecture, landscape architecture or planning programs on graduate level.
Equipment
Literature
Will be announced at Course Start.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- MOM1 - 80% Attendance and Assignments, 7.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
80% attendance at lectures and active participation at seminars. Project review by teacher on at least two occasions. Completion and hand in of studio project and essay, individually.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.