Stage One courses

2024

Updated Friday 27 October 2023

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Students in the first year of the BUrbPlan(Hons) take these courses:

  • Semester One
    • URBPLAN 101, 123, 125
  • Semester Two
    • URBPLAN 122, 124, 126

URBPLAN 101 - Introduction to Urban Planning

  • Course prescription: An introduction to the discipline of urban planning, examining its evolution, theory, practice, profession, ethics, values and future trends. Offers a critical exploration of the challenges facing urban planners today and into the future.
  • Semester availability: Semester One 
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons) and BGlobalSt
  • Points: 15

URBPLAN 122 - Introduction to Society, Civics and Governance Issues for Urban Planning

  • Course prescription: An introduction to the concepts of civics and governance in New Zealand and its international obligations, the theories and values of democracy, natural justice and the role of institutional behaviour. Provides an understanding of the basis of the New Zealand legal system, the Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi and public policy development.
  • Semester availability: Semester Two
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons)
  • Course restriction: URBPLAN 102
  • Points: 15

URBPLAN 123 - Urban Planning Economics

  • Course prescription: An introduction to economic theory, at both the micro and macro levels, and its impact and influence on urban planning policy development and decision making. Includes reference to how economic development can be integrated into effective urban planning policy formulation.
  • Semester availability: Semester One 
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons)
  • Course restriction: URBPLAN 102
  • Points: 15

URBPLAN 124 - Urban Environmental Issues

  • Course prescription: An introduction to ecological processes, urban resilience and growth in an urban context. Explores how urban planning systems can work in sympathy with, or in contradiction to, such processes, and the implications of this for urban planning practice.
  • Semester availability: Semester Two 
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons)
  • Course restriction: URBPLAN 105
  • Points: 15

URBPLAN 125 - Urban Planning Studio 1

  • Course prescription: An introduction to studio and design thinking, the urban design discipline, research skills (quantitative and qualitative) and methods, and the land tenure system. Enables students to read plans at different scales and provide visual literacy skills, including GIS and other relevant tools, through a studio-based design exercise relevant to urban planning.
  • Semester availability: Semester One 
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons)
  • Points: 30

URBPLAN 126 - Urban Planning Studio 2

  • Course prescription: An introduction to basic urban design theories and principles as applied to building form, land use and subdivision patterns, the space between buildings, the role of open space and the public realm. Students will undertake site analysis and through a studio-based design exercise develop skills and practices for working at the differing spatial scale relevant for urban planning and urban design.
  • Semester availability: Semester Two 
  • Programme restriction: BUrbPlan(Hons)
  • Points: 30