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• Current 2012/2013 Course Catalogue

GEOGRAPHY

PLEASE NOTE: Resit: (for Honours students only): Candidates achieving a CAS mark of 6-8 may be awarded compensatory level 1 credit. Candidates achieving a CAS mark of less than 6 will be required to submit themselves for re-assessment and should contact the Course Co-ordinator for further details.

Course Co-ordinator: Dr J S Kelman

Pre-requisite(s): Only available to students in Programme Year 4.

As a broad overview of the subject, course content will include topics from across the full range of the subject. Although the specific topics covered in lectures may change from year to year, due to staff turnover, changing requirements from the professional body, and/or opportunities that may arise, coverage is currently anticipated to include:

• Developers and the built environment


• Definitions and scales of economic development.


• Economic development, growth and productivity.


• Goals and rationales for state intervention into property markets.


• Contrasting perspectives in addressing regional disparity.


• Stakeholders, communities and markets.


• Dimensions of regeneration.


• Social inclusion and economic competitiveness in regeneration.


• Urban evolution and structural change.


• Waves of industrial development.


• De-industrialisation.


• Spatial expression of de-industrialisation


• Consequences of changing patterns of production for the developed World


• Dereliction in the inner cities: scale and consequences.


• Challenges and opportunities in regeneration.


• Regeneration and sustainable development.


• Land dereliction and contamination.


• Definitions of contaminated land and brownfield land.


• Site contamination as a hazard.


• Exposure pathways.


• Significance of contaminated land for regeneration and the property market.


• Site profiles and site registries.


• Site investigation and remedial planning.


• Risk perception, acceptability and standards.


• Risk assessment.


• Risk management.


• Remediation: approaches, implications and trade-offs.


• The post-industrial city.


• Spatial trends since the 1980s.


• Gentrification.


• Agents of Gentrification.


• Gentrification: challenges and opportunities.


• Flagship developments (definitions, examples, implications).


• Flagship developments: advantages and disadvantages.


• Festival retailing.


• Urban regeneration policy and new economic futures.


• Master planning mega projects.


• Urban regeneration corporations, past and present.


• Conservation and regeneration.


• Property-led regeneration.


• Retail-led regeneration.


• City centres versus suburbs.


• Area-based or regional niche


• Growth poles and technology focussed regeneration.


• Culture-led regeneration.


• Education-led regeneration.


• Housing-led regeneration.


• Building community capacity.

One two-hour lecture per week.

1st Attempt: Coursework (33%); two-hour exam (67%).

Resit: Not applicable

Formative Assessment and Feedback Information

There is no stand-alone formative assessment.

Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets.

Course Co-ordinator: Ms G Wall

Pre-requisite(s): None.

• Introduction to design principles, policy, toolkits and practice.


• The costs of poor design and the value of maximising design quality.


• Principles of design introduction to design, form and function, sustainable placemaking, space design and the public realm, appreciating and evaluating alternative approaches to design.


• Principles of development.


• The role of various factors in the development process, constraints, obstacles and feasibility.


• Social equity and design issues.


• Role of design in development and planning processes.


• Design control and quality, design policies, frameworks, guidelines, codes and statements, masterplans, charrettes, community participation in design.


• Evaluating alternative design approaches in the wider context.

1 x 2 hour lecture / workshop per week. Additional support from My Aberdeen.

1st Attempt: One 2-hour written examination (50%). Coursework project: group presentation and poster (20%) and individual report (30%) supported by peer assessment.

Resit: Not applicable.

Formative Assessment and Feedback Information

Feedback on the summative assessment will help students improve their subsequent performance.

Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets. We also provide feedback via MyAberdeen.

Course Co-ordinator: Mr B Walton

Pre-requisite(s): GG 2011 oe LE 2031

This course will cover:

• The institutional framework within which the UK (and Scottish) spatial planning system operates.


• The legal meaning of 'development'.


• The submission and determination of planning applications.


• The use of conditions and agreements.


• The role of enforcement action against unauthorised development.


• Special legal controls for the regulation of advertisements and the protection of the historic built environment, the natural environment and trees.
• Compulsory purchase powers and compensation.


• The legal duties of spatial planners and surveyors.

12 x 2 hour lectures or discussion sessions, to include mock planning enquiry exercise.

1st Attempt: (33%) - coursework: participation in a mock planning inquiry. (67%) - exam with students being required to answer 2 questions from a choice of 6 in two hours.

Resit: Not applicable.

Formative Assessment and Feedback Information

There is no stand-alone formative assessment.

Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets.