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Course Catalog 1998/99


Business Adm and Social Science

IES611 Socioeconomic and Environmental Aspects of Urban Planning 30.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
I + II

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Olof Stjernström Univ adj


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 15.00ECTS
Written exams and written reports 15.00ECTS

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. Idéer för en mer ekologisk stad. Skärhamn 1991.
Literature on the subject physical planning will be included later.
Valid for school year 1998/99.
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