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PLAN9049: Foundations of Informal Urbanism
2024 unit information
This unit is designed to fill a significant gap in the evolution of the urban and regional planning curriculum by focusing on the concept of informal urbanism in a developing and developed country context. This unit is designed for planners and urban designers who may wish to work in the field of international development and/or who have an interest in better understanding urbanisation, especially informal urbanism in the Asia and Pacific Region. The unit is run in both semesters, one as an overseas field trip and the other as an intensive in Sydney. The international field trip will be a collaboration with the highly esteemed Insititute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, and is based around the theme of informal urbanism as expressed in a kampung (informal settlement). For the intensive in Sydney, students from ITB will participate in class activities. By the end of this unit of study you should have an understanding of the (i) key readings on the dimensions of informal urbanism, (ii) key policy themes of poverty, spatial justice, and environmental sustainability, (iii) tools to explore the nature of informal urbanism, including understanding patterns and types of urban form and structure and their adaptation and transformation at the local level, and (iv) cross-cultural considerations in planning and urban design. The unit reflects the increasing internationalisation of Australian planning practice in contributing to better managing urbanisation, especially within the Asia and Pacific Region. It caters to the needs of local and international students intending to work on urban and regional planning projects internationally and wishing to better understand how the city is made and shaped including understanding dimensions of urban complexity in the formal and informal city.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Urban and Regional Planning and Policy
| Code | PLAN9049 |
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| Academic unit | Urban and Regional Planning and Policy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the nature and complexities of the urbanisation process and its consequences/impacts as it applies to the context of kampungs (urban villages comprising the urban disadvantaged) in Bandung, and urbanisation generally in Indonesia, and how ‘planning’ has responded, not responded or understood their needs
- LO2. analyse the scope, complexity, and foundational concepts of informal urbanism through key readings in the literature, applications of tools to evaluate expressions and manifestations of urban form, structure, function, incrementalism and self-organised housing in a specific kampung by being there in the field/'on the ground' in a multi-cultural environment
- LO3. understand the key stakeholders involved, their motives and values, development aspirations, types of rules and regulations, and modes of local governance
- LO4. apply and interrogate the meaning of 'whose development', urban transformation processes and the variety of urbanisation outcomes in your visions of urban planning/design through critical thinking and problem solving, use of analytical tools and strategic planning, communication (oral, written and graphic), information and innovation.
Unit availability
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Intensive July 2024
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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