Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Summer 2024 - URB 610 G100

Urban Design: Integrating Theory and Practice (4)

Class Number: 3750

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 6 – Aug 2, 2024: Wed, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
    Vancouver

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

This course is an examination of urban design as a discipline that involves the environmental, aesthetic, social, economic, geographic, ecological, historical, political, and cultural aspects of the built environment. The importance of creative design, the interrelationship between the spatial organization of a city, its efficient delivery of services, the social, cultural and economic considerations of the public realm, as well as the process of change in our pluralistic society will all be considered.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course invites students to plunge into the complex realities of urban design for and on urban and industrial lands. Our points of departure will be through the concepts of Third Place by Ray Oldenburg and placemaking. These will enable theoretical and practical exercises in re-thinking what good places mean for the diverse peoples who work on or live near urban and industrial lands. By the end of this course, students will be able to respond to questions including: What are possible and appropriate Third Places for urban and industrial lands? Which values are expressed through how urban and industrial Third Places look or feel? How can Third Places be co-created to support enabling and shared spaces needed for the productive and economic activities of the local workforce in Vancouver.

This case-based and group-work oriented course will include site-visits to various areas on False Creek Flats. A Jane’s Walk is also taking place as a teaser-event for the course. Details and registration for the event are available here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/janes-walk-vancouver-13387821306. Students are highly encouraged to participate

Grading

  • Group work, participation, and in-depth field work (i.e. observation, interviews) 20%
  • ChatGPT-enhanced annotation and reflection assignment 10%
  • Draft Design Diagnosis 20%
  • Final Urban Design Strategy Proposal 30%
  • Final Project Urban Design Strategy Presentation 20%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Suggested & Required Reading

Third Places

Oldenburg, Ray (1999): The great good place: cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community / Ray Oldenburg. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a: Da Capo Press.

Oldenburg, Ray (2001): Celebrating the third place: inspiring stories about the "great good places" at the heart of our communities / ed. and with an introd. by Ray Oldenburg. New York: Marlowe & Comp.

Required Reading

Dolley, J., Bosman, C., & EBSCOhost. (2019). Rethinking third places: informal public spaces and community building / edited by Joanne Dolley, Caryl Bosman. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Fajarwati, A. A. S. (2023): Adaptive Reuse of Pos Bloc and M Bloc. The Intersection of Third Place, Nostalgia, and Circular Economy. In Humaniora 14 (3), pp. 215–222. Available online at https://journal.binus.ac.id/index.php/Humaniora/article/view/9688/4914.

 

Placemaking

Kent, Fred; Madden, Kathy (2024): The Place Man. Watch the New Documentary on the Placemaking Movement. sociallifeproject.org. Available online at https://www.sociallifeproject.org/the-place-man-documentary/.

Hes, Dominique (2020): Placemaking Fundamentals for the Built Environment. With assistance of Cristina Hernandez-Santin. Singapore: Springer Singapore Pte. Limited. Available online at https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5970591.

 

Urban and Industrial Lands

Boeck, Sarah de; Ryckewaert, Michael (2020): The Preservation of Productive Activities in Brussels: The Interplay between Zoning and Industrial Gentrification. In UP 5 (3), pp. 351–363. DOI: 10.17645/up.v5i3.3092.

Cima, Ottavia; Wasilewska, Ewa (2023): Sensing Urban Manufacturing: From Conspicuous to Sensible Production. In UP 8 (4). DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i4.7272.

Meyer, Kerstin (2023): Next Generation Small Urban Manufacturing: Apprentices’ Perspective on Location Factors, Mixed-Use, and Shared Spaces. In UP 8 (4). DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i4.7040.

Pendras, Mark; Nolan, Adam; Williams, Ashleigh (2023): Departures From the Norm: Innovative Planning for Inclusive Manufacturing. In UP 8 (4). DOI: 10.17645/up.v8i4.7255.

Chang, Robin A.; Förster, Agnes (Eds.) (2023): Productive Processes. Pushing Beyond the Urban Production Baseline. pnd - rethinking planning 2023 (1). Aachen: Rektor der RWTH Aachen University.


Graduate Studies Notes:

Important dates and deadlines for graduate students are found here: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/current/important_dates/guidelines.html. The deadline to drop a course with a 100% refund is the end of week 2. The deadline to drop with no notation on your transcript is the end of week 3.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html