LK0419, Studio - Landscape planning, 15.0 Hp
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Syllabus

Level

First cycle (G2F)

Main field of study

Landscape Architecture

Grading Scale

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Course language

Swedish

Entry Requirements

Objectives

The purpose of the course is for the student to develop knowledge and skills in landscape analysis and gain basic knowledge of physical and urban planning. The aim is also to provide students with basic knowledge of society’s laws, rules and goals for long-term sustainable development as well as regional differences in the landscape.

Knowledge and understanding After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• give examples of regional differences in the landscape that affect people’s conditions for living and working in different parts of the country;
• describe the interaction between an urban area and the structures and functions of the surrounding landscape;
• describe some urban planning theories that form the basis for landscape planning;
• explain the importance of carrying out a landscape analysis before a change in land use;
• discuss and exemplify how different actors have the opportunity to influence landscape planning in processes and stages that are governed by societal goals, laws and regulations as well as planning and environmental legislation.

Skills and Abilities After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• methodically search for and compile geographical and other information relevant to the implementation of a landscape analysis;
• methodically describe the conditions and sensitivity of a landscape to a changed land and water use;
• justify a change in land and water use from a landscape and planning perspective.

Evaluation ability and approach After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• formulate issues relevant to landscape planning linked to society’s goals for long-term sustainable development;
• discuss and problematize a selection of values and interests that affect landscape planning from a national and international perspective.

Content

The course is organized around a compulsory project work in studio form where students work in small groups that visit and do landscape analyzes of different urban areas around the country. An exercise that, among other things, enables comparisons of how different conditions in the landscape affect both people’s opportunities to live and use the landscape and how the conditions affect vegetation and plant use.

In their work, the students start from a given method but are also introduced to other proven methods relevant to the analysis of the landscape. Based on a change in land and water use in a Swedish urban area, they describe and analyze the landscape’s conditions. The task can vary from year to year and is based, for example, on the location of housing, recreation, energy supply, etc. The focus is on describing, assessing and presenting the landscape’s conditions for showing trade-offs between current claims. Aspects that are studied are the landscape’s biophysical properties, structures and functions, as well as cultural and social characteristics of the locality. The students report the results in groups in text and pictures as well as orally. In an individual writing exercise, the student make comparisons and ask questions relevant to landscape planning.

In connection with the project work, a methodological work with map layers is introduced as a tool for searching, compiling and evaluating geographical information in a landscape analysis.

The project work includes theoretical parts that are examined in seminars and with individual writing exercises. The theoretical parts deal with urban planning theory based on history, ideologies and values as well as physical planning with society’s goals, laws and rules.

Urban planning history is studied trough literature studies and lectures. Swedish urban development is associated with currents and ideas in society in Sweden and internationally. The city as a system in the landscape, ie the interaction between the surrounding landscape, traffic system, buildings and blue-green structure is studied. Prerequisites for a long-term sustainable development of different types of cities are highlighted.

Students are introduced to Swedish legislation that governs and regulates the municipalities’ physical planning. The purposes of the legislation are discussed as well as the planning process and its various parties.

In lectures, texts and compulsory seminars, students discuss different values and interests in relation to overall global, national and local societal goals for long-term sustainable development. Ethical perspectives are raised. Outside and inside perspectives are discussed in relation to change in the landscape.

The course gives 15 credits of skill training.

Examination Formats and Requirements for Passing the Course

The course contains theoretical parts that are examined with individual written exercises and seminars. Applied landscape planning is examined with group work in project form and an individual written exercise. To pass the course, approved written exercises and group work are required, as well as a pass participation in compulsory project work, seminars and study trip.

Responsible Department/Equivalent

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Supplementary information

Included in program

• Landskapsarkitektprogrammet - Uppsala

Module set

Title	Credits	Code
Landscape planning – theory and values	5.0	0006
Applied landscape analysis	10.0	0004

The Course Replaces

Delar av LK0232, LK0109 och LK0168. LK0349.

Other Information

Prerequisites 5 credits of soil science are given by the course LK0292 Introduction to landscape architecture, geology and hydrology, alternatively MV0213/MV0224 Soil as a plant habitat and plant knowledge 3.

Study trip is included in the course and costs are presented no later than 4 weeks before the start of the course.