Course description
Core Subjects (112.5 points)
All students must complete the following core subjects:
Subject Semester Credit Points
702-534 Planning Thought and History
This subject was formerly known as Planning Thought and Action. Current practices of urban and regional planning have emerged as a human response to the range of circumstances surrounding settlements over time. This subject provides students with a g... Semester 1 12.50
702-523 Planning Law & Statutory Planning
This subject covers the legal framework within which urban planning takes place, and the ways in which local provisions (e.g. ‘Planning Schemes' in Victoria) can be used to implement plans by regulating development. It focuses on the... Semester 1 12.50
702-536 Analytical Methods for Urban Planning
The purpose of this subject is to provide students with knowledge of techniques and skills used by urban planners. It develops understanding and skill in the use of the collection, analysis and representation of information. It outlines and applies e... Semester 1 12.50
702-531 Strategic Plan Making
Strategic planning is a task undertaken in a range of professional contexts, but lies at the heart of plan making within urban planning. This subject examines the process of strategic urban planning at the metropolitan and local scales, exploring the... Semester 2 12.50
702-532 Urban Design for Planners
Urban design is concerned with the qualities, use, ongoing improvement and management of the public realm such as streets, squares and pedestrian malls. This subject emphasises the development of urban design skills that are of value to urban planner... Semester 2 12.50
702-533 Interdisciplinary Studio
This studio concentrates on the interdisciplinary nature of the built environment progressions. The subject draws on skills of critical thinking, negotiation, and ingenuity as the repositories of professional expertise. The issues of sustainability, ... Summer 12.50
702-697 MUP Research Project 1(Masters)
The subject introduces students in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning to the skills necessary to conduct rigorous and original research and effectively communicate their research findings in a clear and systematic manner. The subjec... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
702-699 MUP Research Project 2 (Masters)
The subject introduces students in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning to the skills necessary to conduct rigorous and original research and effectively communicate their research findings in a clear and systematic manner. The subjec... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
PLUS one of
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-641 Participation and Negotiation
This subject was formerly known as Managing Change.
All practitioners in the built environment need at some point to be aware of the strategies and techniques that can be employed to elicit constructive involvement from the public, and to negotiate c... Summer 12.50
OR
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-658 Planning Theory & Governance (Masters)
Theories of planning, values, power and urban governance are addressed. Different ways in which policies shape the city are explored. Urban governance encompasses the provision of infrastructure for the city and the delivery of services: the roads, t... Semester 1 12.50
The following is a list of selective subjects by area of specialisation:
Specialisation: Social and Community Planning
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-637 Healthy Communities
In recent years, there has been a greatly increased interest in the impacts of the built environment on health and wellbeing. At present, spatial inequalities in regards to access to jobs, affordable housing, social services, and healthy food results... Semester 2 12.50
702-637 Multicultural/Postcolonial Cities(Mast)
This subject studies multiculturalism in the built environments of Australia and of South and Southeast Asia focusing on colonial encounters and postcolonial aspirations. Using race, class, gender and migration as theoretical starting points, it expl... Semester 2 12.50
121-529 Social Impact Assessment and Evaluation
This subject develops the skills to understand and assess the social impacts of development. The different actors involved in shaping and implementing development projects and programmes (the state, international development agencies, non-government ... Semester 2 12.50
702-589 Social Planning
Social planning is a field of urban planning that specifically addresses the ways in which individuals, groups and communities are affected by the strategic and statutory planning framework. Planners cannot imagine that society comprises one set of p... Semester 2 12.50
Specialisation: Economic Planning
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-625 Planning the Productive City (Masters)
This subject explores ways that the economic production of goods and services shapes the vitality, structure and planning agenda of cities. It uses an economic sectoral perspective to demonstrate how sectorssuch as manufacturing, transport, services ... Semester 2 12.50
705-643 Managing Global City Regions
This subject investigates the concept of the global city region as a source of issues that require new approaches by planning decision-makers. It does so by establishing the way that global city regions can be identified, how they are shaped by econo... Semester 1 12.50
705-657 Shopping and Retail Planning (Masters)
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
705-538 Strategic Planning in Asia-Pacific
CitiesMany Asia-Pacific cities have undergone rapid urban development and change as they have become integrated into the global economy. The character of that integration has changed over time; at the same time social and political aspirations have been ex... Semester 2 12.50
Specialisation: Urban Design
It is recommended that students taking the Urban Design Specialisation who require development of drawn representation skills take 702-680 Design Commuinications Workshop as a Masters level elective subject.
For students completing this specialisation it is highly recommeded they take the subject 705-640 Design Assessment Skills as one of their free point electives.
Subject Semester Credit Points
702-532 Urban Design for Planners
Urban design is concerned with the qualities, use, ongoing improvement and management of the public realm such as streets, squares and pedestrian malls. This subject emphasises the development of urban design skills that are of value to urban planner... Semester 2 12.50
702-621 Urban Design Theory (Masters)
This subject explores contemporary theories and modes of critique relating to the design of the urban public realm. Emphasis is on how urban physical form responds to the economic, cultural, political, social, aesthetic and natural forces of an urban... Semester 1 12.50
705-835 Advanced Urban Planning & Design (PG)
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
702-883 Environmental Design (PG)
Introduction to environmentally responsive and responsible architecture and urban spaces. Topics include:Environmental issues in architecture and urbanism;Primary concepts in environmentally-responsive design;Energy use in the built environment: effe... Semester 1 12.50
705-616 Regenerating Activity Centres
This subject will assist built environment professionals involved in development proposals for activity centres - planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, construction managers and financiers - to ensure that development proposals will ... Semester 2 12.50
Specialisation: Environmental Planning
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-644 Planning Urban Sustainability
The urban dimension of sustainability is the focus of this subject. A holistic view of sustainability is explored (environmental, social, cultural and economic). The contribution of cities to the crises of the environment is analysed. Solutions based... Semester 1 12.50
950-601 Sustainability Policy and Management
The subject covers alternative concepts and definitions of sustainable practice; critical appraisal of approaches taken by different disciplines to environmental issues and their identification; the scoping of potential solutions; the evaluation of c... Semester 1 12.50
121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment
This subject prepares students for environmental management roles by providing them with the principles of how human impacts on the environment might be detected and managed. The principles will be placed within the legal and social contexts of envir... Semester 1 12.50
421-619 Energy for Sustainable Development
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
730-683 Environmental Law
No description available Semester 1 12.50
Specialisation: Transport Planning
Subject Semester Credit Points
705-818 Transport and Land Use Planning (PG)
This subject studies the theory and practice of transport and land use planning in urban areas. At the conclusion of the subject, students should:be familiar with procedures that have been developed for planning transport and land usebe aware of the ... Semester 1 12.50
705-536 Sustainable Transport and Public Policy
The focus of this subject is research on sustainable transport as public policy. In it we explore ways of implementing a vision of urban transport for greenhouse-efficient cities, socially fairer cities, safer cities, and healthier cities, which will... Semester 2 12.50
705-622 Public Transport Network Planning PG
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
705-637 Healthy Communities
In recent years, there has been a greatly increased interest in the impacts of the built environment on health and wellbeing. At present, spatial inequalities in regards to access to jobs, affordable housing, social services, and healthy food results... Semester 2 12.50
421-448 Transport Systems
On completion of this unit students should have an understanding of the prediction of demand and systems available to meet this demand for both motorised and non-motorised traffic; the theory and practice of transportation planning; and an ability to... Semester 2 12.50
