By the end of the course the students will comprehend the multiplicity of relations in a city departing from a functional structure and reaching to group of structures interacting through varying functions. The scale relationships will develop from concrete to abstract and constitute the basis for the second term 202 Planning Studio IV. Urban setting will be utilised as laboratory for students to learn and experience urban dynamics. This will enable students to transfer concrete events into spatial abstractions/representations which consists the basis of urban planning visual language. Students will experience complexities and interplay of different dimensions in an urban setting and create their relationship with urban planning.

Furthermore, they will acquire the skills of problem definition, algorithmic thinking, scenario-building, strategic thinking, utopian thinking, comparison of alternatives in scenario building and design skills to shape the urban environment. They will be equipped with the knowledge of form-function relationship, hierarchy of spaces and transport links, urban form-transport interactions, an in-depth understanding of the built environment, and part-whole relationships.