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LK0330

Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning

Landskapsarkitekturens metoder och roller i översiktlig planering
The course discusses and critiques values and processes which inform and impact on municipality planning. In light of uncertainty developed through climate and social change the course questions how sustainable development and citizen influence can help municipalities make better basis for decisions. The course draws on landscape, as formulated in the European Landscape Convention, as the lens for dealing with these questions, framed with in the multiple goals society, legislation etc. provide the framework. While the course will address a case based in a Swedish planning context, the issues that arise are set in and have relevance for European and global situations. Landscape planning theories and approaches are presented and discussed in lectures and seminars. The main assignment draws on the literature discussed in order to formulate a proposal for future interventions on the landscape of the municipality, communicated through a comprehensive plan.

The course offer insights in the role of a project leader for comprehensive planning at community and regional level including both legal processes, teamwork strategies among specialists, environmental assessments and public participation.

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

LK0330-30111 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for LK0330

Academic year 2023/2024

Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning (LK0330-30150)

2024-01-15 - 2024-03-19

Academic year 2022/2023

Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning (LK0330-30041)

2023-01-16 - 2023-03-21

Academic year 2020/2021

Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning (LK0330-30142)

2021-01-18 - 2021-03-23

Academic year 2019/2020

Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning (LK0330-30029)

2020-01-20 - 2020-03-24

Syllabus and other information


Syllabus

LK0330 Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning, 15.0 Credits

Landskapsarkitekturens metoder och roller i översiktlig planering

Subjects

Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture

Education cycle

Master’s level

Advanced study in the main field


A1N

Grading scale

5:Pass with Distinction, 4:Pass with Credit, 3:Pass, U:Fail
The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Language

English

Prior knowledge

Knowledge equivalent to 180 credits of which 90 credits in Landscape Architecture, and/or Physical or Urban Planning and/or Community Planning and/or Rural Development, and knowledge equivalent to English 6, or admitted to the Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation – Master´s programme.

Objectives

Knowledge and understanding

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

  • account for and discuss a selection of theories and methods for planning and sustainable development

Competence and skills

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

  • reflect and discuss landscape’s preconditions in relation to sustainable development based on national, European and global relations

  • use and reflect on inventory, analysis and presentation methods that are used at comprehensive planning

  • examine and reflect on different forms of planning processes with democratic methods as well as conflict management

Judgement and approach

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

  • discuss ethical approaches and dilemmas associated with the role as planner

Content

The course is based on a municipality or part of a municipality. Rural areas including one or more smaller urban areas are studied based on their relationship with the main location of the municipality and based on a landscape perspective. Landscape’s preconditions and problems are also analysed in a general perspective in relation to national, European and global relations. Central concepts as landscapes, democracy and ethics are analysed and discussed. The municipality main location is studied in this holistic perspective but not in-depth analysis.

In several smaller practical assignments the course participants should in groups, based on a selected municipality, work with different working methods for development of a municipality or a part of it and make a field trip to the area. Apart from exercises about methods for consultation and landscape analysis, visions and scenarios for the municipality’s/or a district’s sustainable development is prepared. Based on these exercises a proposal to recommendations for future land use is formulated and justified in text and on maps. Consequenses of the plan should appear clearly in the proposal.

In lectures and through literature studies, different theories and methods concerning physical planning is treated, as well as planning processes including communicative methods for conflict management. In seminars is discussed how the view on planning’s role in society and thereby also planning profession have been developed during the last decades.

In order for the student to deepen his/her knowledge of physical planning, its possibilities and limitations, it is studied how laws, rules, objectives, agreements, incentives etc. related to comprehensive planning are influenced by society’s development, regionally, nationally and internationally. Finally, in an article, the student reflects over how different values have been handled in the practical assignments and also over the possibilities for comprehensive planning to influence these values.

Field trip, seminars and activities connected to them are compulsory components.

Grading form

The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest.

Formats and requirements for examination

Approved examination of article, passed exercise and seminar assignments as well as active attendance in compulsory course components.

  • If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.

  • The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.

  • If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.

  • For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Other information

  • The right to participate in teaching and/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.

  • If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.

Additional information

The course gives 10 credits of skill training.



Costs in connection with study trip are completely or partly finance of student. Information about costs are available on the course homepage 4 weeks before start of the course.

Responsible department

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Further information

Replaces: LP0438, LP0527, LP0543, LP0578, LK0225, LK0256

Litterature list

  1. Sustainable landscape planning: the reconnection agenda. Författare: Selman, P. [Sustainable landscape planning: the reconnection agenda.] (http://site.ebrary.com/lib/slub/detail.action?docID=10589140) Kommentar: Selman, P. (2012) Sustainable landscape planning: the reconnection agenda. Abington: Routledge. (Available as e-book from the library)
  2. Towards a Feminist Code of Planning Ethics Författare: Hendler, S. [Towards a Feminist Code of Planning Ethics] (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1464935042000334967) Kommentar: Hendler, S. 2005. Towards a Feminist Code of Planning Ethics. Planning Theory & Practice, 6, 53-69.
  3. Environmental assessment and planning theory: four short stories about power, multiple rationality, and ethics. Författare: Richardson, T. [Environmental assessment and planning theory: four short stories about power, multiple rationality, and ethics.] (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925504001192) Kommentar: Richardson, T. 2005. Environmental assessment and planning theory: four short stories about power, multiple rationality, and ethics. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25, 341-365.
  4. Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics. Författare: Watson, V. [Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics.] (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1473095206061020) Kommentar: Watson, V. 2006. Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics. Planning Theory, 5, 31-50.
  5. Dare to Plan: An Essay on the Role of the Future in Planning Practice and Education. Författare: Isserman, A [ Dare to Plan: An Essay on the Role of the Future in Planning Practice and Education.] (<http://www.jstor.org/stable/40112237 >) Kommentar: Isserman, A. (1985). Dare to Plan: An Essay on the Role of the Future in Planning Practice and Education. The Town Planning Review, 56(4), 483-491.
  6. Phronetic planning research: theoretical and methodological reflections Författare: Flyvbjerg, B [Phronetic planning research: theoretical and methodological reflections] (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1464935042000250195) Kommentar: Flyvbjerg, B. (2004) Phronetic planning research: theoretical and methodological reflections, Planning Theory & Practice, 5:3, 283-306.
  7. Nordic experience of sustainable planning Författare: Kristjánsdóttir, S. [Nordic experience of sustainable planning] (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315598529) Kommentar: Kristjánsdóttir, S. (2017) Nordic experience of sustainable planning. Abington: Routledge.(Available as e-book via library)
  8. The Inquiry Based Approach (IBA) - a facilitator’s handbook Författare: Westin, M, Calderon, C. & Hellquist, A. [The Inquiry Based Approach (IBA) - a facilitator’s handbook] (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285321999_The_Inquiry_Based_Approach_IBA_a_facilitator's_handbook) Kommentar: Westin, M, Calderon, C. & Hellquist, A. (2014) The Inquiry Based Approach (IBA) - a facilitator’s handbook. SWEDESD
  9. Politicising the landscape: a theoretical contribution towards the development of participation in landscape planning Författare: Calderon, C. & Butler, A. [Politicising the landscape: a theoretical contribution towards the development of participation in landscape planning] (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01426397.2019.1594739) Kommentar: Calderon, C. & Butler, A.?(2019)?Politicising the landscape: a theoretical contribution towards the development of participation in landscape planning,?Landscape Research,
  10. ‘Planning ethics’ and rediscovering the idea of planning. Författare: Campbell, H. [‘Planning ethics’ and rediscovering the idea of planning.] (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1473095212442159) Kommentar: Campbell, H. 2012. ‘Planning ethics’ and rediscovering the idea of planning. Planning Theory, 11, 379-399
  11. Making Participation Work When Interests Conflict: Moving from Facilitating Dialogue and Moderating Debate to Mediating Negotiations. Författare: Forester, J [Making Participation Work When Interests Conflict: Moving from Facilitating Dialogue and Moderating Debate to Mediating Negotiations.] (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01944360608976765) Kommentar: Forester, J. (2006) Making Participation Work When Interests Conflict: Moving from Facilitating Dialogue and Moderating Debate to Mediating Negotiations, Journal of the American Planning Association, 72:4 ,447 — 456.
  12. Placing the Stakes: The Enactment of Territorial Stakeholders in Planning Processes. Författare: Metzger, J. [Placing the Stakes: The Enactment of Territorial Stakeholders in Planning Processes.] (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/a45116) Kommentar: Metzger, J. (2013). Placing the Stakes: The Enactment of Territorial Stakeholders in Planning Processes.?Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,?45(4), 781–796.
  13. Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Författare: Reed, M., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C. & Stringer, L. [Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management.] (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.01.001) Kommentar: Reed, M., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C. & Stringer, L. 2009. Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 90, Issue 5, 1933-1949,

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation - Master's Programme Landscape Architecture Programme - Uppsala, Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 74982 SEK Cycle: A1N
Subject: Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture
Course code: LK0330 Application code: SLU-30111 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Urban and Rural Development Pace: 100%