Integrated Urban Management

Urbanization can be planned or organic. Planned urbanization, i.e. new town or the garden
city movement, is based on an advance plan, which can be prepared for aesthetic, economic
or urban design reasons. Many ancient organic cities experienced redevelopment for military
and economic purposes, new roads carved through the cities, and new parcels of land were
cordoned off serving various planned purposes giving cities distinctive geometric. UN
agencies prefer to see urban infrastructure installed before urbanization occurs. Urban
planners are responsible for urban system and infrastructure (public parks, sustainable
urban drainage systems, greenways etc.) which can be planned before urbanization takes
place, or afterward to revitalized an area and create greater liveability within a region.


Learning Objective
1. To build analytical and planning skills to solve urban system management problems.
2. To link theory and practice of the course concepts.