B-KUL-H02P4A Human Settlements in Development

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General information

Academic year: 2011-2012 Study points: 4 Language: English Difficulty: Advanced Duration: 30.0 hours  Periodicity: Taught in the first semester POC: POC Human Settlements

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Taught by

Verschure Henricus

Aims

The course objectives are fourfold:

• To introduce major human settlements issues and problems at all scale levels (from the global to the very local i.e. dwelling level) 
  
• To critically evaluate various types of solutions and interventions in human settlements (city and neighbourhood, planning, housing projects, building programs) in developing countries in the last 50 years, with particular emphasis on mainstream tendencies (international organization) and more innovative or experimental ones 
  
• To selectively illustrate issues and problems in selected contexts related to the students’ background and the working experience of the Post Graduate Centre 
  
• To discuss new and emerging concepts, methods and tools to face new challenges in the built environment in developing countries.

Previous knowledge

See general conditions for admission to the program

Content

The built environment in developing countries is characterized inter alia by rapid growth of towns and cities, restructuring of traditional modes of dwelling and inhabitation, new ways of planning and organizing the built environment, and new processes and production in the building sector. These aspects are embedded in changes in societies, cultures, nations, regions and communities operating on various scale levels from dwellings to entire (city) regions and indeed to the global scale of interactions. Increasingly the complexity of such changes is part of changing perceptions of development, at present oriented towards the desire to achieve more sustainable human settlements development. The course is structured in 16-18 sessions of 1 1/2h each. These sessions cover among others the following topics: 

Introduction, structure, assessment and practicalities; 
Concepts of development as related to human settlements; 
Urbanization and settlement change; 
Urbanization: facts and figures, ways of life, forms; 
Responses to changing human settlements on global and local scale (programmes and projects of the past 4 decades at various scale levels including new approaches related to strategic planning & intervention); 
Evolution in the housing and building sector; 
Habitat Agenda; 
Case studies in selected contexts.

This course is included in

Master of Science in Human Settlements   (Required)  
Master of Science in Urbanism and Strategic Planning  
Master of Science in de ingenieurswetenschappen: architectuur  
Master of Science in Cultures and Development Studies  
Master of Science in Urbanism and Strategic Planning   (Spatial Planning) (Required)  

Course Material

Articles and literature
Slides, transparencies, courseware
Examples and samples
Multimedia

Activities

		B-KUL-H02P4a Human Settlements in Development
	General information Study points: 4.00 Language: English Category: Seminars Duration: 30.0 hours  Periodicity: Taught in the first semester POC: POC Human Settlements Taught by Verschure Henricus Aims see above Content The built environment in developing countries is characterized inter alia by rapid growth of towns and cities, restructuring of traditional modes of dwelling and inhabitation, new ways of planning and organizing the built environment, and new processes and production in the building sector. These aspects are embedded in changes in societies, cultures, nations, regions and communities operating on various scale levels from dwellings to entire (city) regions and indeed to the global scale of interactions. Increasingly the complexity of such changes is part of changing perceptions of development, at present oriented towards the desire to achieve more sustainable human settlements development. The course is structured in 16-18 sessions of 1 1/2h each. These sessions cover among others the following topics:  Introduction, structure, assessment and practicalities;  Concepts of development as related to human settlements;  Urbanization and settlement change;  Urbanization: facts and figures, ways of life, forms;  Responses to changing human settlements on global and local scale (programmes and projects of the past 4 decades at various scale levels including new approaches related to strategic planning & intervention);  Evolution in the housing and building sector;  Habitat Agenda;  Case studies in selected contexts. Course Material see above Course activities See above

Evaluation

		B-KUL-H22P4a Evaluation : Human Settlements in Development
	Evaluation description Examination type:     oral with written preparation     written Evaluation type:     Presentation     Paper     Participation