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PLAN 10002 Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning

Introduction to Urban Planning Subject Guide Semester 2, 2021

The University of Melbourne The materials included in this reader are produced solely for the purpose of study and have been copied in accordance with requirements of the Copyright Act

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TEACHING STAFF---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3

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SUBJECT INFORMATION------------------------------------------------------------------------------7

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WEEKLY GUIDE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14

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ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW:--------------------------------------------------------------------------26

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GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS------------------------------------------------------27

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Teaching Staff Subject Coordinator: Prof. Nicholas Phelps Professor in Urban Planning Glyn Davies Building (formerly MSD Building) Room: 348 Phone: +61 3 9035 8578 Email: [email protected] Consultation Hours: 5-6PM Tuesdays Professor Nicholas Phelps is Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. He was previous Professor of Urban and Regional Development and Pro-Vice Provost Regional at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Reader at the University of Southampton and Lecturer at the Universities of Leeds and Cardiff. He is an internationally recognised urban planning and economic geography scholar having published over 100 books, edited books and international peer reviewed journal articles. His research focuses on suburban planning and politics, the economics of urban agglomeration and the economic geography of multinational enterprises and their foreign direct investment. His recent books include: The Urban Planning Imagination (Polity), An Anatomy of Sprawl: Planning and Politics in Britain (Routledge), Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future (MIT Press) and Interplaces: An Economic Geography of Inter-urban and International Economies (OUP). Together with David Nichols and Estella Qing he is currently conducting research on the challenges of place-making at Melbourne's urban periphery.

Senior Tutor: Dejan Malenic Email: [email protected] Dejan is a PhD candidate at The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, researching spatial patterns of innovation in Australian Cities. He holds a Master of Urban Planning and a Bachelor of Environments, both from The University of Melbourne. Previous research has focused on urban consolidation and stakeholder interaction in development projects. Dejan has been tutoring at The University of Melbourne for over 6 years, while also working as a project manager in a boutique residential construction firm.

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Tutors: Dr Riane Nunes Email: [email protected] DSc Env Planning (Monash Uni & UFRJ, Brazil), MSc Env Planning (UFRJ, Brazil), PG Dip Env Mgmt (UFRN, Brazil), B UP & Arch (UFRN, Brazil) Riane is an urban planner with over 15 years’ experience in environmental and urban planning, water management and climate change adaptation in Australia and Brazil. Her experience includes teaching, research, stakeholder engagement and developing multidisciplinary projects within the public and private sectors. Previously, she worked at Water Technology consultancy developing strategic plans in Integrated Water Management (IWM) and community engagement. At Manningham City Council, she assessed proposals for residential developments, reviewed stormwater management plans and advocated for Ecologically Sustainable Development practices. Her doctoral research delivered a strategic planning framework embracing Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), and liveability and smart growth principles within the context of Victoria planning policies. As Research Team Leader at the Global Change Institute in Brazil, she delivered the Water Resources and Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Rio de Janeiro state. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and mentoring students to develop research, analytical skills, planning policies and strategies.

Nathan Pittman Email: [email protected] I’m Nathan Pittman, and I’m a doctoral candidate here at the University of Melbourne. My research uses a governmentality framework to explore the persistence and transformation of planning visions in the practice of urban transport planning in the Melbourne and Toronto regions. I graduated from the MUP program at University of Melbourne, and my other research interests include transport justice and disadvantage, and the politics of infrastructure projects.

Dr. Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes Email: [email protected]

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Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes is an expert in Tourism, Resilience and Planning with broad professional and academic experience in these fields. His research targets formal and informal planning processes in tourism development and building resilience to disasters, with a focus on Australia, Brazil and Scandinavia. From social-ecological and complex adaptive systems’ perspectives, he seeks to understand the roles of regulation, self-organisation and connectivity in resilience-building and global-local interplays. He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia, the Regional Studies Association, the Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education and the IUCN-WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group. He holds a Bachelor of Tourism (Planning) and a Specialisation in Tourism and Hospitality Marketing Management from the University of São Paulo, a PhD in Architecture and Planning from the University of Melbourne and was a guest PhD candidate at the Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability. From 2017 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne and an associate researcher at the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre.

Samuel Miles Email: [email protected] I completed my undergraduate degree in Urban & Regional Planning at the University of South Australia, majoring in Social & Community Planning. I graduated with First Class Honours with a thesis related to developing Social Capital with the aid of the built form in Adelaide. While undertaking this degree, I was fortunate enough to earn to overseas university student exchange placements to both Copenhagen, Denmark and Istanbul, Turkey for a semester each. I worked for a couple of years in politics and as a social worker, before returning to complete postgraduate degrees in politics and international relations at both The University of Adelaide and here at The University of Melbourne. Following a couple of years tutoring at UniMelb, I have recently commenced a PhD at Monash University on the relationship between International Students, Mental Health and Housing in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology.

Dr. Eric Gaisie Email: [email protected] 5

Eric is a Sessional Academic involved in teaching and research at the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in urban and regional planning, development economics, and international development planning from universities in Ghana, Germany, Italy, and Australia. He previously held teaching and research positions at the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and the Faculty of Economics, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. He is an affiliate member of the Planning Institute of Australia and a member of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the Melbourne School of Design. Eric has research interests in urban development and planning, informal settlements, global environmental change, and disaster resilience, and has published widely on these subjects. He previously held awards from Erasmus Mundus (European Commission) and Australian government Research Training programs.

Dr. Yuelong (Aaron) Yang Email: [email protected] Yuelong (Aaron) now works as a research assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne. He received his PhD from the Faculty in 2021 and his research focuses on multi-sector and multi-scalar relations in cityregion governance as well as mega-infrastructure planning. He holds a Master of Economics and a Bachelor of Management. Before his PhD at The University of Melbourne, he worked as a land-use planner and policy analyst in Beijing, China.

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Subject Information Subject Overview: The subject introduces students to the theoretical perspectives and skills relevant to the study and practice of urban design and planning. It builds a broad understanding of the ways urban designers and planners might successfully intervene in urban places. It gives students some of the practical means to be able to develop plans, policies and designs to improve urban places, and to achieve multiple objectives. Key skills for writing, drawing, urban analysis, design, and working at the scales relevant to urban design and planning, will be developed in a mixed suite of lectures, workshops, field trips, tutorials and studios. Students will analyse key readings and work on group projects for the semester that allow them to develop key skills including the production of a design for an urban place. Students will develop abilities in presenting, using a variety of media and in a range of settings Note: the subject normally would include a day-long field trip outside of Melbourne to a Morwell and Casey that would take place in the semester break week. The field trip was intended to be complementary to the final piece of group coursework – a strategic spatial plan for a choice of one of three localities for which you will in your groups sign up. Given the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic the fieldtrip will not run. Instead materials relevant to each local context – Southbank, Casey and Morwell will be placed on CANVAS and students are encouraged to visually inspect locations making use of Google Streetview and Google Earth.

Intended Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:      

Have the mix of basic theoretical, substantive and methodological knowledge associated with urban planning Gather information from a range of sources relating to an urban place and meaningfully collate, interpret and analyse it; Spatially represent and analyse an urban place, and conveying this analysis to others in meaningful ways; Develop strategies and designs for the ongoing spatial management of an urban place; Reflect upon the implications of their plans and design in terms of social, economic, ecological and cultural concerns; Deliver information about their plans and designs using appropriate representation, written, oral and other relevant means

Generic Skills: Upon successful completion of this subject the student should have developed the following skills: 7

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General verbal, written and graphic communication skills Critical thinking and analysis Data collection and interpretation.

CONTACT HOURS: 1x2 hour lectures plus 1x2 hour tutorial per week TOTAL TIME COMMITMENT: 170 hours Lecture: Pre-recorded and available on LMS at the start of each week. All lectures will be posted on CANVAS ahead of the timetabled session. Please ensure you look at the recorded lectures and bring any questions to the tutorials. Tutorials:

PLAN10002 Day

Start Time

End Time

Monday Monday

13:00 15:15

15:00 17:15

Wednesday

9:00

11:00

237

Glyn Davis

Wednesday Wednesday

9:00 9:00

11:00 11:00

118 448

Glyn Davis Glyn Davis

Wednesday Wednesday

11:00 11:00

13:00 13:00

1006 109

Redmond Barry Baldwin Spencer

Wednesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Friday

12:00 15:15 15:15 17:15 17:15 11:00

14:00 17:15 17:15 19:15 19:15 13:00

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Sidney Myer Asia Centre Online Online Online Redmond Barry Online

Room* Building Online Online

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Tutor Nathan Pittman Nathan Pittman Riane Nunes McCormack Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes Dejan Malenic Leonardo Nogueira de Moraes Dejan Malenic Riane Nunes McCormack Samuel Miles Eric Gaisie Samuel Miles Eric Gaisie Aaron Yang

Note*: Only some of the classes are scheduled as online. In the event of further covid-19 restrictions we may be required to move all classes online, but the ones that have been scheduled a room will return to in person teaching as soon as possible. Therefore, if you are currently not in Melbourne you MUST register for one of the online classes. If you cannot register to one of those classes but feel you are unable to attend an in person class please email Dejan as soon as possible - [email protected]

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Office Hours: Dejan Malenic will be available for office hours from 1.30pm to 2.30pm AEST every Wednesday both in person and virtually each week to answer questions. In person drop in sessions will be in room 412 of the MSD Building. Feel free to drop in and ask questions. Potential lockdowns may mean that face to face consults won’t be available. In this case a zoom meeting will be created instead. Please note that around assignment time there is a high demand for consults so appointments are recommended. For students studying remotely, please email Dejan at [email protected] to schedule an appointment.

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Methods of Planning

The Wisdom of Planning

Planning Imagination

SCHEDULE: Week

Date

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26 July

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2 August

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9 August

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16 August

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23 August

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30 August

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6 September

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13 September

Lectures Lecture 1: Introduction and Subject Overview Lecture 2: Temporalities: From the Day-to-day to the Big Sweep of History Lecture 3: Scales: From Site to Ecumenopolis Lecture 4: Ways: perambulations, networks and flows Lecture 5: Tragedies: externalities and the tragedy of the commons (Dr. Judy Bush) Lecture 6: Needs: water, shelter, food, sanitation (Dejan Malenic) Lecture 7: Injustices: inequity, compensation and betterment Lecture 8: Wickedness: unanticipated consequences and planning failures

Tutorials

Assessment

Tutorial 1 – Introduction Tutorial 2 – History of Planning Tutorial 3 – Master Planning

Critical Analysis 1 due 15th Aug

Tutorial 4 – Flows and Analysis Tutorial 5 – Tragedy of the Commons Tutorial 6 – Planning for Needs

Group Task 1: Transect due 3rd Sep

Tutorial 7 – Participation and Justice

Critical Analysis 2 due 12th Sep

Tutorial 8 – Planning Failure and Transport

NON-TEACHING PERIOD | MON 20/09 – SUN 26/09 9

27 September

Lecture 9: Desires: excessive consumption and its moderation

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4 October

Lecture 10: Trends: forecasts and scenarios

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11 October

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18 October

Lecture 11: Deliberations: participation, consultation and communication Lecture 12: Actions: grassroots participation, coproduction (Dr. Crystal Legacy, Dr. Martin Arias)

Tutorial 9 – Land Use Planning Tutorial 10 – Data Collection and Economic Planning Tutorial 11 – Deliberation and Participatory Planning Tutorial 12 – Grassroots Planning and Conclusion

Critical Analysis 3 due 17th Oct Group Task 2: Plan due 24th Oct

SWOT VAC | MON 25/10 – FRI 29/10

Other Information Attendance Students are responsible for obtaining any information given out in class and keeping themselves informed of the subject requirements. Attendance at tutorial sessions, both in person and online, will be noted throughout the semester. The tutorials consist of discussion of a key reading but also the development of key skills relevant to the assessments. It is in your interest to attend the tutorial each week. Attendance means more than simply showing up or logging in to an online tutorial, and requires you to be presence mentally as well and engage with the class content. Students that simply log in and make no effort to turn on their 10

cameras or engage with the content will no receive a passing grade for the participation component of the subject. There is a hurdle requirement of 75% attendance in tutorials, for both online and face to face tutorials. The Faculty and subject coordinator will only permit extended absences where grounds for special consideration exist and in these cases the subject coordinator may advise the student to consider withdrawal from the subject. Each student is responsible for all class material – including team work sessions – whether or not she/he attends a lecture or tutorial.

Contacting teaching staff with questions You should contact the teaching staff in the following order, based on the relevance of the question: Your tutor, followed by the senior tutor, followed by the subject coordinator. Ideally, your tutor will be able to answer most of your questions, in particular regarding assessments, tutorial activities, etc. In most cases, you are encouraged to ask questions during or after class, as that is when the tutors will be most readily available and therefore most likely to give you a timely response. The senior tutor will answer questions regarding extensions, special consideration, group work and other subject wide queries. The subject coordinator should only be emailed in the event that the tutors cannot answer your specific question. Lectures will be recorded and placed on CANVAS in advance of the timetabled slot and you are encouraged to address any further questions you have on the lecture material to either Dejan Malenic, the senior tutor, or to Professor Phelps directly via email.

Special consideration The Faculty policy follows the University policy on Special Consideration (https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/functions/special-consid/info/SubmissionGuidelines.html). It is designed to make reasonable allowance for unavoidable or unforeseen interruptions or constraints upon student work. It is available to assist students to cope with circumstances where their work has been hampered to a substantial degree by illness or other causes. Only circumstances affecting students for more than three consecutive days, or five days in total, are grounds for special consideration. Students must be able to supply documentary evidence of their circumstances completed by a health care or other professional. Students should complete an online Special Consideration application form, accompanied by evidence documents. The Faculty Special Consideration Committee (one staff member from Academic Services, Associate Dean (Academic), one academic staff member) will consider the application. The subject coordinator will then determine the action to be taken and will advise the student. Where late submission of work is all...