Business Adm and Social Science

IES611 Socioeconomic and Environmental Aspects of Urban Planning 30.0 ECTS credits

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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 AND CREDITS 
Written exams and written reports                           	15.0 ECTS
Written exams and written reports                           	15.0 ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
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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