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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Unit aim
Introduces students to the history and practice of planning. Students learn about the origins and development of planning and the translation of historical principles into contemporary practice. Key planning and urban design concepts, models and approaches are investigated, as are patterns of human settlement and their impacts, the changing societal context for planning, and various planning problems, issues and solutions. The unit is structured around key planning themes, including planning’s historical quest to improve living conditions, the evolving practice of planning, the significance of heritage protection, planning’s inherent tensions, community concerns, and planning’s contemporary mission to improve quality of life.
Unit content
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of planning, its origins and development, and the process of translating planning principles into professional practice. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
2 | Demonstrate an understanding of the principal aspects of the NSW planning system and planning policy development at the State, regional and local levels. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
3 | Analyse and apply legislative provisions in relation to the processes of development control, development assessment and strategic planning. | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | |||
4 | Evaluate case studies in order to identify various, skills, techniques and processes required to undertake planning assessments and address planning problems | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||
5 | Apply sustainability and environmental management principles to environmental planning. | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |
6 | Demonstrate the relationships between a variety of contemporary environmental and social issues and planning in NSW. | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Cultural competence | ||
7 | Identify the roles of community consultation and public participation in planning and apply community engagement concepts and techniques in an environmental planning context. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of planning, its origins and development,
and the process of translating planning principles into professional practice.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principal aspects of the NSW planning system and
planning policy development at the State, regional and local levels.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- Analyse and apply legislative provisions in relation to the processes of development
control, development assessment and strategic planning.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- Evaluate case studies in order to identify various, skills, techniques and processes
required to undertake planning assessments and address planning problems
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Apply sustainability and environmental management principles to environmental planning.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Demonstrate the relationships between a variety of contemporary environmental and
social issues and planning in NSW.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA7: Cultural competence
- Identify the roles of community consultation and public participation in planning
and apply community engagement concepts and techniques in an environmental planning
context.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Thompson, S & Maginn, P (eds), 2012, Planning Australia. An overview of urban and regional planning, 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne. ISBN: 978-1-107-69624-2.