Course Objectives:
The objective of the course is to provide theoretical aspects and managerial techniques required in an interdisciplinary teamwork situation, with a view to face challenges and to overcome them successfully. Competencies required to synthesize the acquired knowledge, using innovative approaches such as Logical Framework Analysis and supporting methods including Gender Analysis and Environmental Assessment, are intended to be given through workshops and field studies of real world cases focusing on selected themes like livelihood, modes of governance, environmental sustainability, regulatory processes etc.
Further, this course will provide the foundation required for students with skills of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data so as to generate solutions for urban management issues.
Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
Analyze issues related to urban management and planning.
Apply management tools and techniques for an UEM development project, as well as all knowledge they have learned from other basic courses of UEM.
Apply and evaluate the theories and concepts with the practices of urban management.
- Teacher: Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon
The objective of the course is to impart/convey knowledge on theories, techniques and methods in urban planning and regeneration within the context of the environment as underlying ethos/principles that urban and environmental management require both scientific and managerial expertise to integrate spatial and other forms of intervention, particularly those related to urban and regional planning and to policy and management for environmental protection. Therefore, the course deals with both conventional as well as state of the art environmental management systems to create an overall framework/approach and broad applications within which the other specialized areas of the Urban Environmental Management are discussed.
- Teacher: Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon
The thesis seminar prepares UEM second-year Masters students for developing their own thesis and research study. The students will receive counseling in how to formulate a comprehensive research proposal and conduct the individual research project. Part of the course will be based on work in groups, where the students will present and comment each other’s proposals and reports, revise these with regards to the feedback from fellow students and advisor, before it is submitted for final approval. Course goals and learning objectives are; 1) Designing and planning a research project; 2) completing the project; and 3) being successful in degree.
- Teacher: Sohee Kim
This course covers
the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) techniques which encompass broader
scope covering urban development as a sector or group of activities. The course
contains background information on the development, theories and principles of
SEA, existing legislation, practice and regulation on SEA, with examples from
different international contexts. The practical aspects of the SEA are
addressed in this course, considering SEA as a set of framework elements to be
built upon existing decision making systems. It illustrates case studies by
implementation of policies, plans and programs (PPP). The
course is therefore designed to provide the knowledge and skills for such
decision-making for implementing the PPP.
- Teacher: Prof. Vilas Nitivattananon
The course is intended to familiarize students with
the logic of research design and its core elements, and a broad range of data
analytical methods and techniques in urban planning and environmental decision-making
as well as socio-spatial research.
- Teacher: Sohee Kim
The major objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the field of urban planning and its application in designing and managing urban built-environment. The course will cover theories and practices of the modern city planning and then examines several planning subtopics – such as land use, community design and development, and the idea of urban sustainability – in light of some basic dimensions of urban analysis such as historical, economic, political, social, cultural, and spatial issues.
- Teacher: Sohee Kim