Course Objectives
- To improve students’ understanding of urban areas in their wider regions, of urban structures and contemporary urban problems and issues;
- To provide students with the theoretical knowledge and technical skills of comprehensive and in-depth analysis of regions, urban areas, and their various sectors;
- To help students make use of various mapping and GIS techniques in spatially representing the outcomes of their analysis;
- To provide students with the theory and techniques of strategic planning;
- To equip students with the knowledge and skills of problem definition, and formulation of a main regional/urban development vision as well as development strategies and policies that may help to attain the set vision;
- To help students apply their acquired knowledge of urban analysis and strategic planning on a selected urban area and its region.