Building and Urban Planning

Instruction is in the form of lectures, exercises, and hand-in assignments. Attendance during certain exercises is obligatory. Study visits and a walking tour of the city may be part of the course.

The course covers the following elements:

Residential planning:
- Aesthetics and architectural history, the history of residences
- Areal- and volume requirements and design of rooms for residential buildings and other types of buildings
- Standards and regulation systems
- Planning
- Reconstruction

Urban planning:
- Historical retrospective - urban functions and ideas
- Current conditions for planning: the Planning and Building Act (Sw. "Plan- och bygglagen"). Comprehensive plan and detailed development plan, and sustainable urban planning
- Development
- Traffic planning

Progressive specialisation: G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Education level: Undergraduate level

Admission requirements: House Building Technology, 7.5 ECTS Credits, CAD for Building Engineers, 7.5 ECTS Credits, or the equivalent.

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.