Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor/lecturer
Linda Kelly
Contact via email
6 First Walk room 433
Moderator
Alison Ziller
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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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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
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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Community video | 30% | No | 25 March 12noon |
Preparing a strategic plan | 40% | No | 6 May |
Plan workshop & presentation | 30% | No | 3 June 4pm |
Due: 25 March 12noon
Weighting: 30%
You are to imagine that you are working for an organisation which has decided to prepare a plan addressing a current planning issue. A list of issues from which you can choose will be included in the assessment guide posted on iLearn.
You are to 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 shown in class in week 5 for discussion.
Due: 6 May
Weighting: 40%
This assessment requires you to prepare a plan for the Bankstown civic area. As a class we will visit the area on 1 April and meet with local planners. We will then work in class time to develop the aims/objectives of the plan.
You will select one of the following issues:
An explanation of these issues will be given, and discussed, in class.
The Plan shall include the following parts:
Due: 3 June 4pm
Weighting: 30%
This assignment utilises the work you will do in class in weeks 10-12.
The workshop exercise involves you working in groups in class through a series of tasks which are outlined in detail in a Design Brief provided on iLearn.
For the purpose of the workshop exercise you are to imagine that you have been commissioned to undertake a planning study for the future use and embellishment of the public domain located east of Macquarie Theatre, known as “Macquarie Theatre Courtyard”. The University is your client and is canvassing alternative options for development of the courtyard.
Your group will present your plan to the class. The plans will be pinned up in class at 4pm on Monday 3 June.
Your group will be given a mark for the plan – 15%
You will each present to the class, on one aspect covered during the workshops - 15% individual mark for your presentation.
GEOP370 will be taught in a three hour weekly session. The Unit Schedule below provides a list 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 at least two field trips: 1. to listen to Gary White, NSW Chief Planner on 18 March, and 2. a site visit to Bankstown on 1 April.
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:
Further resources will be posted on iLearn.
4pm - 7pm Mondays
Week 1: Introduction to unit. What is strategic planning?
Week 2: Strategic planning & metropolitan planning in NSW
Week 3: State and local policy and plans
Week 4: Site visit - NSW Department of Planning & Environment, Chief Planner Gary White
Week 5: Student video presentations
Week 6: Site visit - Bankstown
Week 7: Representing evidence on plans and maps
Week 8: Planning proposals
Week 9: Observing the everyday
Week 10: Planning workshop Part 1
Week 11: Planning workshop Part 2
Week 12: Planning workshop Part 3
Week 13: Student plan presentations
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