This is a project-based module that provides you with an opportunity to critically investigate the spatial characteristics and qualities of the built...

Urban Design: Layout, Density and Typology (BPLN0056)

This is a project-based module that provides you with an opportunity to critically investigate the spatial characteristics and qualities of the built environment, with a focus on layout, density, and typology, and explore the use of different typologies in the development of urban design proposals.

It aims to develop knowledge and a range of skills for carrying out urban design investigations and proposals, in particular design and graphic communication skills.

This module is taught primarily through project work. Knowledge is imparted through individual/group tutorials, project reviews, and a small number of lectures (delivered by the staff and external practitioners).

Ms Paula Pinheiro Morais De Carvalho Martins

Anthropology|Economics|Global Prosperity|Human Development|Human and Social Geography|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking|Public Policy|Sustainability

Module content

The dominant economic cultures of the 20th century have produced both immense material wealth and deep social and ecological dilemmas. The key...

Pathways to Prosperity 1: Global Legacies (BGLP0001)

Module content

The dominant economic cultures of the 20th century have produced both immense material wealth and deep social and ecological dilemmas. The key assumptions of these cultures – embodied in indicators such as GDP and the belief that limitless economic growth is both possible as well as desirable – continue to shape our lives. How did these global cultures and their underlying structures develop? In what sense are today’s grand challenges – including climate change, unemployment and inequalities of income and wealth – related to these entrenched ideas and institutional configurations? What role did ‘development’ play in exporting these ideas to the Global South? And how are these cultures responsible for the deep existential crisis of Western democracies that has followed?

Through core online materials, classes and readings, interactive seminars and a series of speaker events, Pathways to Prosperity I: Global Legacies is designed to unpick the history of these unsustainable cultures. You will be challenged to think critically about both the successes and pitfalls of 20th century economic, cultural and social practices while creatively considering how they might be productively reconfigured to suit new ecological, social, political and economic realities, in the context of humanity’s search for sustainable global prosperity.

Illustrative Module Outline

Visions of sustainable global prosperity
	Rethinking economics
	Rethinking global development
	Legacies of colonialism
	Local and global inequalities
	The Anthropocene
	Student presentations
	(Un)sustainable transportation
	The global food production system
	Pathways to prosperity: from legacies to futures