Urban Design Project
UndergraduateLTU-PLA2PPA2025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $1,164
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Urban Design Project
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical understanding of Urban Design as a means to study place.
- Understand principles of urban design and their application to real-life settings.
- Identify, evaluate, and address urban problems using creative design interventions.
- Develop capacity to undertake urban design projects as part of professional practice.
- Demonstrate high levels of written and visual communication skills in relation to urban design and planning.
- Urban design
- Placemaking
- Creative spaces
- Public places
- Design thinking
- Built Heritage
- Parks and playgrounds
- Public amenities
- Urbanism
- Urban landscape
- Strategic planning and design
- Neighbourhoods
- Community aspirations
Students will focus on developing their knowledge, skills and practice in urban design and urban planning through a studio and design project. Using a series of practical case studies, urban strategic planning and design exercises and working in groups and individual modules, students take a leading role in developing plans and designs for urban settlements. Attention in the subject is given to establishing projects that deliver net community benefit.
This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling.
- Individual site based design project (2250 words). (50%)
- Case study of an award-winning project (900 words). (Excluding the graphic content - photos, maps, images). (20%)
- Individual portfolio (1350 words). (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-PLN-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Planning (Honours)
Elective
- LAT-URE-ADG-2025 - Associate Degree in Urban and Regional Environments
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: AH003O and have completed 15 credit points of first year Planning or Social Sciences subjects.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Planning (Honours)
UndergraduateLAT-PLN-DEG
Associate Degree in Urban and Regional Environments
UndergraduateLAT-URE-ADG