2025Year

Second Semester

Theory of City Planning

Lecture

Theory of City Planning

Z2000008 Theory of City Planning

NOZAWA Yasushi

2.0Credits

Fri.2Period

Shinjuku Remote

A) A high degree of specialized expertise　100%
B) The skills to use science and technology　0%
C) The ability to conduct research independently, knowledge pertaining to society and occupations, and sense of ethics required of engineers and researchers　0%
D) Creative skills in specific areas of specialization　0%

The aim of this class are to understand City Planning Law and its system, urban policy and housing policy, and to learn your knowledge which you can use practically through considering and discussing social problems from the point of view of urban planning.
On completion of this course, students should be able to :
1) understand the outline of urban planning, connecting with social problems
2) point out some problems in the system and policy of urban and housing planning through social problems
3) acquire skills for discussion and presentation through case studies in the class

You should have finished basic studies about Japanese urban planning.
For example, "City Planning" for 2nd year undergraduate students at Kogakuin.

Project Based Learning／Flip Teaching／Discussion Debate／Group Work／Presentation

Subjects in this course :

01) Outline of this class and sharing urban problems
02) Read into some materials (thesis, report, web site etc.) about cities and city planning
03) Presentation of current thoughts about cities and city planning
04) Additional presentation and discussion about cities and city planning now and in the future

05) Case Study 1 : (1) Lecture, guidance and preparation of case study
06) Case Study 1 : (2) Presentation and discussion (roll playing)
07) Case Study 1 : (3) Additional presentation and Summarizing of this case study and recognizing issues
08) Case Study 2 : (1) Lecture, guidance and preparation of case study
09) Case Study 2 : (2) Presentation and discussion (roll playing)
10) Case Study 2 : (3) Additional presentation and discussion (roll playing)
11) Case Study 2 : (4) Presentation, summarizing of this case study and recognizing issues (without roll, as a specialist)
12) Case Study 3 : (1) Lecture and guidance of case study
13) Case Study 3 : (2) Discussion, summarizing of this case study and recognizing issues

14) Reviewing of the course and final discussion
15) Personal reviewing of the course and making a final report

* I may adjust case studies based on the number of participants, and will discuss about the cases selected in the class.

Preparation for case studies and mini-reports after case studies : 30%
Discussion and presentation : 40%
Final report : 30%
No examination
You will be evaluated by GPA : from A+ to F .
A+, A, B, C, D : pass
F : failure

Feedback comments will be given in the class。

None

I will introduce some text books in my lecture if necessary.
For example, some textbooks for undergraduate students ;
"Urban Planning 3rd ed.", by Mitsuhiko Kawakami, Morikita Publishing Co., Ltd., 2017 (in Japanese)
"Town Planning for Beginners 2nd ed.", by Shin Aiba, Nobuharu Suzuki et al., ICHIGAYA Publishing Co., Ltd., 2018 (in Japanese)

summer semester : 10:00-11:00 on Tuesday  26F A-2674, Shinjuku campus
winter semester : before or after this class, and 12:00-13:00 on Friday  26F A-2674, Shinjuku campus
If you hope to contact me on another schedule, please send me an e-mail firstly.
E-mail address is nozawa@cc.kogakuin.ac.jp .

I hope you will learn and discuss about some themes of urban planning not only from viewpoints of your special field but from another ones.
You should join every class and discuss actively with enough study and research in advance.
Please join this class with your video on.

Not applicable

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