CONS507 PLANNING AND DESIGN IN URBAN CONSERVATION

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, the students are expected to develop a project reflecting an awareness and experience in the following topics:

• Defining general characteristics and conservation problems of a historic site with special emphasis on the selected example,
• Defining and evaluating the features and values of buildings to be protected,
• Defining current legal, administrative, and financial means and developing proposals for their use in practice,
• Applying the knowledge gathered throughout the theoretical courses and evaluating the collected data on the selected site or town to gain expertise in “Conservation Master Plans” and “Historic Site Conservation Management and Planning” in general.

Course Content

Provide the students a systematic and contemporary approach to urban conservation that can be used in defining the general characteristics and conservation problems of historic sites considering the current legal, administrative, financial and managerial means. Research, survey, analysis, evaluation and preparation of conservation master plan proposals for a historic site by use of Geographic Information Systems. Detailed study of the natural, architectural, visual and certain socio-economic characteristics as well as historical development of the historic site.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the student will be able to:

Knowledge:

• carry out a survey and define characteristics of a historic site; evaluate its values, problems, and potentials and develop decisions for its conservation considering the studied site and its environment as a whole together with its natural and man-made elements and inhabitants and various stakeholders

Skills

• prepare a conservation master plan considering international norms and national legislative framework
• prepare a conservation management plan draft considering the international and national financial framework
• prepare (individually/as a group) a generator preliminary project proposed within the conservation master plan

Attitudes

• develop maturity in managing teamwork, demonstrating individual responsibility and commitment to collective achievement
• develop professional expertise in urban conservation plans with utmost care for heritage sites and inhabitants
• demonstrate evidence of professional ethics to resist and challenge real-life procedures of practice