Content of Learning Activity

The Sustainable Urban planning part addresses the following contents:
- Introduction to city planning and process of urbanization from a global perspective (social, political, economic forces).
- Key historical and contemporary debates in urban planning.
- Theories and models of urban planning.
- Interdisciplinary and discipline-based discussions on the practice of sustainability & key debates in sustainable city planning.
- Case-study analysis and hands-on application
- Empirical study and data collection/analysis/interpretation

The contents of the second part on Geographic Information Systems and Geomatics are as follows:
- Introduction to relational databases and queries: structure of a relational database, database joins, SQL queries.
- Geographical Information Systems and geoprocessing: spatial reference systems and projections, raster and vector models, DEM and DTM, topological model and predicates, data representation, geoprocessing operations, handling networks.
- Hands-on introduction to RDBMS: interacting with a relational database in SQL and writing SQL queries, exporting to data frames;
- Hands-on introduction to Geographical Information Systems and geoprocessing using QGIS and python packages:
- Using spatial reference systems: srs specification and transforms, on the fly reprojection; Accessing data sources: data types, common formats, geodata sources; Raster datasets: handling data (georeferenced images, geoservers), data representation, georeferencing images, using Digital Elevation Models and Digital Terrain Models; Vector datasets: handling data (geographic databases, geoservers), coding data, using symbology and labels, selecting data subsets (spatial and non-spatial selections), applying geoprocessing operations, topologic and non-topologic editing; input of field data;

Required Learning Resources/Tools

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Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

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Other Recommended Reading

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Mode of delivery

• Face-to-face

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours magistraux

Evaluations

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