Cities are complex human made objects. They consist of thousands of elements and need to satisfy numerous human needs. The definition of urban form (street network, plots, building volumes) is a crucial step in the planning of cities because it has the longest lasting effect on their social, economic and ecological performance. Thus, this step needs to be undertaken with greatest care. In this course we will deal with computational methods to support this process.
The course extends the knowledge and methods you learned in PUDA I. You will learn and train advanced parametric modeling techniques and further analysis methods as well as basic knowledge about statistics to study relationships between urban form and its manifold functions.
You apply the learned skills in an urban planning project for new towns in Ethiopia (IUDD Study Project “Metabolism-based Planning Strategies for Rural-Urban Transformation in Ethiopia”). It is expected that the participants have absolved the course “Parametric Urban Design and Analysis” from the previous semester. |
