Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor/lecturer
Linda Kelly
Contact via email
W3A 433
Lecturer/tutor
Ashraful Alam
W3A 429
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(39cp at 100 level or above) including (ENVG281 or GEOS280 or GEOS281 or GEOP181)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Designed to be a planning applications unit, this unit focuses on urban strategic planning at the regional and local government level, drawing on existing strategic plans at both levels of government in the Australian context. This unit allows students to develop practical skills for urban strategic planning, while also drawing on recent academic research published in major academic journals. On completion of this unit students will know how to approach urban strategic planning as an inter-agency/intra-department process. They will also have gained practice experience in assessing the scope of issues covered in urban strategic plans and the keys to effective strategy development.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late Submission Penalty
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved,
(a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date, and
(b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven days (including weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Assessment tasks are designed to ensure you are learning during the unit. Please let the unit convenor know as soon as possible if you need clarification about the expectations for each task. Some general information:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Greater Sydney Commission | 20% | No | 19 March Week 4 |
Community video | 30% | No | 1 May Week 8 |
Preparing a strategic plan | 40% | No | 8 June Week 13 |
Attendance & Participation | 10% | No | throughout semester |
Due: 19 March Week 4
Weighting: 20%
This assessment requires you to write a 1,500 essay about the role of the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) and reflect on its successes, influence and effectiveness in planning for Sydney. Matters to consider in your essay include:
Due: 1 May Week 8
Weighting: 30%
You are to imagine that you are working for an organisation which has decided to prepare an urban strategic plan addressing one of these issues:
1. street verge community planting
2. making spaces in the city for pets
3. graffiti management in Surry Hills
4. dockless bike hire schemes
Choose an issue from the above list and prepare a three minute video which would be part of a community consultation strategy that is aimed at engaging the community in participating in the preparation of the plan. You want to motivate the public to want to know more about the project and ask them for their ideas.
Your video would begin by explaining the decision of your organisation to prepare the plan, what the plan means and the issues that would be covered. You would finish with a "call to action".
This assessment is not to test your film making and editing skills but rather to get you to experiment with different media for community consultation. I would expect that you would speak in the video and utilise an appropriate background or images to keep your viewers' attention. Background music or other sounds could be used. These videos will be posted on You Tube (unlisted setting) and shown in class in week 8 for discussion.
Due: 8 June Week 13
Weighting: 40%
This assessment requires you to prepare a plan for Bankstown civic area. As a class we will visit the area and meet with local planners. You will work in a group in class time to develop the aims/objectives of the plan. The parts of the Plan will be divided into group work and individual student work as follows:
CHAPTER GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL WORD LIMIT Introduction & Background Group 700 Objectives Group 300 Connectivity Individual 1,000 Accessibility Individual 1,000 Community Individual 1,000 Resilience Individual 1,000 Recommendations Group 500The finalisation and presentation of the document shall be undertaken as a group. The group mark will be 15%.
The assessable mark on the individual student's own work on the chapter of the plan will be 25%.
Due: throughout semester
Weighting: 10%
You are expected to attend at least 90% of all scheduled classes. The unit is being taught involving you in active learning which will require you to participate in activities in each session. The activities are designed to provide you with essential skills for working as a planner. In order to achieve maximum marks for this assessment it will not be sufficient to simply turn up, you will need to demonstrate engagement and participation. Attendance will be recorded at each class. Failure to attend will impact upon other assessments as well as your mark for this component.
4 marks out of 10 will be allocated to your attendance, and 6 out of 10 will be allocated to participation in class activities and discussion.
GEOP370 will be taught in a three hour weekly session. The Unit Schedule below provides detail of the topics to be covered. The first part of the class will generally be in a lecture format followed by a tutorial or practical session developing planning skills. There will be a series of self-directed site visits as well as a class site visit to Bankstown.
Recommended texts for this unit are:
Stein, L (2017) Comparative Urban Land Use Planning: Best Practice, Sydney University Press, Sydney.
Jackson, S, Porter, L, and Johnson, L.C (2017), Planning in Indigenous Australia, Routledge, NY
Gurran, N., 2011 Australian urban land use planning: principles, systems and practice, Sydney University Press, Sydney.
The following websites contain material that will be referenced in the unit:
2pm - 5pm Tuesdays in Room E5A 170
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Lecture topic |
Tutorial |
Assessment |
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27 FEB |
Introduction to unit and assessments What is strategic planning? |
What do you already know about Sydney? |
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2 |
6 MAR |
Influential urbanists Strategic planning in NSW |
Walkability |
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3 |
13 MAR |
State and local policy and plans |
Student presentations - Walkability Mapping skills - representation & symbolism |
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4 |
20 MAR |
Site visit - Department of Planning & Environment Gary White: Chief Planner |
Observing the everyday - city |
Assessment 1 due |
5 |
27 MAR |
Building evidence for strategic plans |
Student presentations - Observing the everyday Mapping skills |
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6 |
3 APR |
Site visit Marrickville |
Land use survey |
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7 |
10 APR |
Local strategic planning |
Site visit Bankstown |
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MID SEMSTER BREAK |
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8 |
1 MAY |
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Student video presentations |
Assessment 2 due |
9 |
8 MAY |
Strategic planning - perspectives and examples |
Writing objectives |
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10 |
15 MAY |
Planning Proposals |
Group work - site planning and community engagement |
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11 |
22 MAY |
Planning workshop |
Developing a design brief and plan |
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12 |
29 MAY |
Testing a plan |
Feedback and planning responses |
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13 |
5 JUN |
Unit overview |
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Assessment 3 due |
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