Postgraduate course in

Urban and Place Design

Develop your dynamic and highly complex projects that tackle the challenges of contemporary urban design.

Start
February 2022
Duration
5 months
Delivery
Face-to-face
Fee
€3,000

Presentation
Training Content
Learning methodology
Teaching team
Career opportunities
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This postgraduate course is also part of the training track for the master's degree in Urban Design.

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Presentation

Edition

21th Edition

Credits

30 ECTS (200 teaching hours)

Delivery

Face-to-face

Language of instruction

Spanish

Fee

€3,000

Payment of enrolment fee options

The enrolment fee can be paid:
- In a single payment to be paid within the deadline specified in the letter of admission to the programme.
- In two instalments:

60% of the amount payable, to be paid within the deadline specified in the letter of admission to the programme.
Remaining 40% to be paid up to 60 days at the latest after the starting date of the programme.

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Registration open until the beginning of the course or until end of vacancies.

Discounts, loans and financial aid

Start date

Start date: February 2022
End date: June 2022

Timetable

Monday: 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Tuesday: 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Wednesday: 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Thursday: 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Taught at

ETSAB - Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal, 649
Barcelona

Why this postgraduate course?

This module of the Master in Urban Design contains several theoretical subjects, methodological and workshops, with a joint program of 30 ECTS. It focuses on urban planning and related research.

To establish the relationship between the new parts of a contemporary city, often characterized by their isolation, a fact that has generated peripheral urban areas where the disintegration is dominant, to study the compositional aspects of the urban project, classify intervention methods used in recent urban remodelling operations according to common patterns and analyse new residential projects based on aspects such centrality, accessibility, services, community spaces, leisure and nature.

Aims

The aim of the Master's is that students is to capacitate students to do the following:

Address urban projects in a dynamic and highly complex urban environment.
Analyse the urban problems of urban and territorial spaces.
Design proposals for planning, remodelling and urbanization of these spaces.
Integrate in the reflection on the forms of physical intervention, the sociological, economic, technical and management dimensions of urban planning.
Incorporate in the projects the different urban scales.
Prepare a personal and informed reflection on the main problems of the different fields of action of urban planning.

Who is it for?

Architects with advanced or associates degrees. Urban Planners. Managers working for public administrations in urbanism departments. Geographers. Economists. Engineers with advanced or associates degrees.

Training Content

List of subjects

3 ECTS 18h

Theory of Urban Planning

This course is a review of intervention theory in the urban planning field, dealing with things from the contributions of primary plans to urban documentation within the discipline. Reflection on the evolution of theory and planning methods, as well as reflection on the representative elements of recent process stages.
Responsible: Profs. Dr. Miquel Coromines Ayala and Joaquim Sabaté Bel (Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning).

15 ECTS 120h

Urban and Place Workshop

The workshop raises as a central theme the relationships between the new pieces of the contemporary city, which are frequently distinguished by their isolation, mutual indifference and insensitivity to the urban context, events that have generated periurban territories, where disintegration is dominant. The proposed projects focus on the exploration of possible functional and formal links between these units to configure new urban structures, a condition of their complexity, vitality and beauty.

4.5 ECTS 27h

Urban Project Theory and Urban Economy

Based on the contents and techniques of action of recent proposals, selected for their paradigmatic value, this subject analyses different aspects of urban intervention on an intermediate scale, of the urban project.
In the second part it is taught to read the processes of growth and transformation of cities from their economic and social keys. Issues such as local labour markets, industrial districts, incidence of new modes of transport and exchange, information flows and information dissemination ... are some changes to which physical planning has to respond.

4.5 ECTS 27h

Urban Composition and Residential Urban Project

In the first part of this subject, reference is made to the compositional aspects of the urban project, based on the recognition of a double ambiguity: the lack of definition of the distinctive open spaces of the current city and that of the computing instruments, once we renounced the Simple geometry and symmetry that have characterized the historic city. The mechanisms capable of constructing these formal structures are debated, among which the new geometries of nature and the new natural referents stand out.
Next, the discussion of the recent evolution of the urban regulation instruments of architecture, especially those more specific in the field of planning and urban design, will be considered.
Finally, residential management models of recent years are analysed, which affect aspects such as centrality, accessibility, endowments, community spaces, leisure and nature.

3 ECTS 18h

Design of Public Space

This course aims to introduce the role of public space and its characteristics as a fundamental element in the urban structure of the city. Review the different elements and techniques used in the construction of the public space. Special attention is paid to the recent conceptual revision in its design and the gradual enrichment of techniques and materials. It is also proposed to define the fundamental elements on which the urban public space project is based, as well as to publicize the public spaces carried out in Barcelona since 1981, which have been the cause of international recognition.

Degree

Postgraduate diplomas issued by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Issued pursuant to art. 34.1 of Organic Law 4/2007 of 12 April, amending Organic Law 6/2001 of 21 December, concerning Universities. To obtain this degree it is necessary to have an official. Otherwise, the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya will only award them a a certificate of completion. (Ver datos que constan en el certificado).

Range of modules

This postgraduate course is part of the training track for the master's degree in Urban Design .
The master's degree programme is organized into the following modules. If you don't wish to take the entire master's degree you can sign on one or several modules.

Master's degree:

financial aid

27/09/2021

Urban Design

Blended learning. Barcelona

Postgraduate courses:

Learning methodology

The teaching methodology of the programme facilitates the student's learning and the achievement of the necessary competences.

Learning tools

Participatory lectures

A presentation of the conceptual foundations of the content to be taught, promoting interaction with the students to guide them in their learning of the different contents and the development of the established competences.

Practical classroom sessions

Knowledge is applied to a real or hypothetical environment, where specific aspects are identified and worked on to facilitate understanding, with the support from teaching staff.

Case studies

Real or hypothetical situations are presented in which the students, in a completely participatory and practical way, examine the situation, consider the various hypotheses and share their own conclusions.

Tutorship

Students are given technical support in the preparation of the final project, according to their specialisation and the subject matter of the project.

Workshops

Students are supported when undertaking group work, including theoretical sessions which provide the tools and knowledge needed to achieve a result. Ideas and results are exchanged between all the participating groups.

Work placements & employment service

Students can access job offers in their field of specialisation on the My_Tech_Space virtual campus. Applications made from this site will be treated confidentially. Hundreds of offers of the UPC School of Professional & Executive Development employment service appear annually. The offers range from formal contracts to work placement agreements.

Virtual campus

The students on this postgraduate course will have access to the My_ Tech_Space virtual campus - an effective platform for work and communication between the course's students, lecturers, directors and coordinators. My_Tech_Space provides the documentation for each training session before it starts, and enables students to work as a team, consult lecturers, check notes, etc.

Teaching team

Academic management

Corominas Ayala, Miquel
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PhD in architect from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Professor of Urbanism in the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC) since 1986. Co-founder and professor in the Master in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU). Visiting professor in A Coruña, Montevideo, Córdoba (Argentina), Montpelier, Nancy, Belleville and Sorbonne (Paris), Rice (Houston, USA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been director of the DUOT and deputy director of the ETSAB. Extraordinary doctorate award from the UPC. He has participated in several exhibitions on the Barcelona expansion and published various articles, chapters and books on Ildefonso Cerdá, the Barcelona expansion and others on urban planning and projects. He was the architect responsible for the expansion in the Barcelona City Council between 1983 and 1987. Founding partner of CCRS arquitectos (1979-2018), where he has directed numerous planning works on a local, urban and territorial scale.
Corominas Ayala, Miquel
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PhD in architect from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Professor of Urbanism in the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC) since 1986. Co-founder and professor in the Master in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU). Visiting professor in A Coruña, Montevideo, Córdoba (Argentina), Montpelier, Nancy, Belleville and Sorbonne (Paris), Rice (Houston, USA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been director of the DUOT and deputy director of the ETSAB. Extraordinary doctorate award from the UPC. He has participated in several exhibitions on the Barcelona expansion and published various articles, chapters and books on Ildefonso Cerdá, the Barcelona expansion and others on urban planning and projects. He was the architect responsible for the expansion in the Barcelona City Council between 1983 and 1987. Founding partner of CCRS arquitectos (1979-2018), where he has directed numerous planning works on a local, urban and territorial scale.

Teaching staff

Castiñeira Palou, Isabel
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PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Associate professor at the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC), where she teaches classes in undergraduate courses and in the qualifying Master's degree at ETSAV, coordinates Master's Final Works and postgraduate courses at UPC-ETSAB. Professor of the Master's Degree in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU), in which she has been responsible for the postgraduate program Projecting the City until 2018. The course and research topics have been directed to the urban and residential project, as well as planning topics in electives. Founding partner of CCRS arquitectes (1979-2018), where she has directed numerous planning works on a local, urban and territorial scale.
Corominas Ayala, Miquel
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PhD in architect from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Professor of Urbanism in the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC) since 1986. Co-founder and professor in the Master in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU). Visiting professor in A Coruña, Montevideo, Córdoba (Argentina), Montpelier, Nancy, Belleville and Sorbonne (Paris), Rice (Houston, USA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been director of the DUOT and deputy director of the ETSAB. Extraordinary doctorate award from the UPC. He has participated in several exhibitions on the Barcelona expansion and published various articles, chapters and books on Ildefonso Cerdá, the Barcelona expansion and others on urban planning and projects. He was the architect responsible for the expansion in the Barcelona City Council between 1983 and 1987. Founding partner of CCRS arquitectos (1979-2018), where he has directed numerous planning works on a local, urban and territorial scale.
Español Llorens, Joaquim
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Doctor in Architecture and professor at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). He has been professor of the "Accademia di Architettura" in Mendrisio (USI-Switzerland), and invited professor in various universities of Europe and America. Author of various books such as "The fragile order of architecture"; "Form and consistency"; "Girona, anatomy of the historic city"; "Arquitectes en el paisatge"; "Invitation to architecture"; "Between technique and enigma, transversal views on the arts". He was director of Urban Plans and Projects at the Barcelona City Council (2000-2004) and has been recognized with the National Architecture Award (Spain 1974), Special Doctorate Award (1996), Architesis Award (2000), FAD Exterior Spaces Award (1999) and special mention of the European Prize for Urban Public Space (2000).
Franquesa Sanchez, Jordi
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Doctor architect from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Full professor at the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC) for more than 20 years and professor at the Master in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU). He has taught at different universities such as Venice, Lisbon, Holland, Mexico and Brazil, and has been a speaker at a conference on teaching innovation and learning at Harvard.
His doctoral thesis obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize. Director and founder of the Group for Innovation and Teaching Logistics in Architecture (GILDA), from where different lines of work on learning are developed, and from where seven JIDA congresses have been held so far (Conference for Educational Innovation in Architecture) . He has written numerous articles on teaching innovation and has participated as a speaker at different national and international conferences on this subject.
Magrinyà Torner, Francesc
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Civil Engineer by UPC (1988) and Doctor in Urbanism from the ENPC and Paris-Sorbonne (2002). Town Planning and Transport Consultant (1988-1996). Head of mobility at the Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency (2000-2006), Director of the Strategic Planning Area of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (2015-2019). He has been a councillor in the Eixample District of Barcelona since 2015. Professor of Urbanism in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UPC). Coordinator of the EXIT-UPC Research Group (Engineering, Networks, Infrastructures and Transport). Outstanding publications: The evolution of engineering in urban planning (2002); The urban space of mobility (2007); Cerdà, one hundred and fifty years of modernity (2010).
Maristany Jackson, Lorena
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PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Associate professor and collaborator since 2008 in the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning (DUOT-UPC). Since 2014 she has been a professor at the Master in Urban Planning (MPU) - European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU).
Between 2000 and 2006 she was a member of the research team of the ETSAV Department of Urbanism (UPC) directed by Professor Antonio Font, where she has developed territorial and urban planning projects. Since 2004 he has been a member of the masmaristany architecture studio together with the architect Sílvia Mas, where they carry out research work focused on the urban and territorial transformations of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (RMB), as well as on architectural projects and urban and territorial planning, Among which is the Special Plan for the Management of the Logistics Activities Zone of the Port of Tarragona, candidate for the 2019 National Urban Planning Award.
Morell Deltell, Miquel

Economist from the University of Barcelona (1998), Master in Business Administration from ESADE (2002) and Executive Education in Corporate Finance from ESADE (2009). Partner of PROMO Assessors Consultors, S.A., a company specializing in investment projects related to urban transformation actions and projects, in terms of land use, planning, urban management and housing. As an expert in investment analysis, he is a consultant for public and private companies, local and regional administrations, and international institutions, such as UN-Habitat and the European Investment Bank. As an expert in land use planning, urban planning and housing, he is a member of several Territorial Commissions for Urban Planning of Catalonia, representing the College of Economists of Catalonia.
Peremiquel Lluch, Francesc
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Doctor of Architecture by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Professor of the Department of Urbanism and Regional Planning at Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC). Professor of several graduate programs. Author and director of researching works in the field of Urban Transformation and Urban Residential Project. Member of the Urban planning Research Group. Municipal Architect of Badalona (1985-2007) where was head of urban planning.
Sabaté Bel, Joaquim
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PhD in architecture from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and economist. He is coordinator of the Doctorate and Master of Research in Urbanism (1990-2018) and of the European postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (2005-2013) at the UPC. He has given lectures and courses at over 70 European, Asian and American universities. Investigating instruments, methods and theories of the urban and territorial project, and the relationship between heritage resources and development. More than 100 books or book chapters, as many articles and direction of fifty doctoral theses. Recognized three times in the National Urban Planning Awards (Spain), the Urban Planning Award of Catalonia (2007) and the Special Heritage Award of Catalonia (2011).

Career opportunities

Technical manager in urban planning departments.
Consultant in Urban Planning and Territorial Planning.
Urban planner specialist in urban project, urban planning and regional design.
Project manager in the area of urban planning.
Freelance urbanist.

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