Engelska Studiehandboken kurser

Business Adm and Social Science

IES611 Socioeconomic and Environmental Aspects of Urban Planning 30.0 ECTS credits

DENNA SIDA FINNS OCKSÅ PÅ SVENSKA

General information about studying at Luleå university

TIMEPERIOD: I + II

LANGUAGE: Swedish

EXAMINER
Nils-Gustav Lundgren Univ lekt

PREREQUISITES
None

COURSE AIM
- To offer students of social science a way to conclude their education where technincal, economical as well as social aspects in different types of social planning and research work is observed and united. Course A: - To give an understanding of interaction between economic developement in a national and regional context and the infrastructure of society. - To give a basic knowledge about the develope ment of social planning. - To give the student knowledge about regional prognosis. Course B: - To describe how todays society with its technical systems works as well as to give an insight into how the society of the future could function based upon recycling. - To give an understanding of the methods and assesments that are used in the planning and shaping of housing and traffic systems.

CONTENTS
Course A: Economic and Social Development, Infrastructure and Planning - Introduction: Social planning yesterday and today. - Economic developement, infrastructure and enviorenment. - Basic knowledge in regional events, demographic developement and migration. - Independent report. Course B: Physical Planning - Theory and Method - Summary planning. - Town housings history. Housing forms and ground utilization. - Planning problems and service. - Landscape architecture. Traffic and technical maintenance. - Awareness of natural cycles in future society. - The shape and layout of the traffic system considering environmental effects, trafficableness and traffic safety. - The conditions of housing planning. Relationship to climate and nature.

TEACHING

EXAMINATION
Seminars, written exams, oral presentations an written reports. Oral and written assignments. Grading system: Fail, Pass or Honours.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U,G, VG

ITEMS/CREDITS


Written exams and written reports                           	15.0ECTS
Written exams and written reports                           	15.0ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
Course A: Kaijser, A.: I fädrens spår. Carlsson förlag 1994. Johansson, M. & Persson, L-O.: Regioner för generationer. Allmänna förlaget 1994. Literature in enviorenmental economi, demographic theory and social planning will be included later. Course B: Compendium in traffic and housing planning, Luleå Univ, 1994. Biologi och bosättningar. Red: Per E Berg. 1993. Daggmaskens dilemma. IdŽer för en mer ekologisk stad. Skärhamn 1991. Literature on the subject physical planning will be included later.

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