UPD5002 Planning project 4: Inclusive city
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
UPD5002 Planning project 4: Inclusive city is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It needs UPD5001.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Caulfield
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before UPD5002
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After UPD5002
No unit lists UPD5002 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
You must be enrolled in the Master of Urban Planning and Design (F6004) or Master of Architecture (F6001).
Overview
Inclusive city focuses on issues pertinent to planning to address the challenge of creating people-centred cities. The unit expands and consolidates advanced concepts, knowledge and skills encompassing a range of complex issues relevant to practising urban planning and design. Through critical research, analysis and synthesis undertaken in real spatial settings, the unit develops concepts, creative approaches, processes and outcomes, and the skills to communicate.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | Flexible |
Assessment
- Report 1Written25%
- Report 2Written50%
- Final report and exhibitionProject25%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of relevant concepts and principles associated with contemporary planning and design that strategically respond to complex community issues;
- 2
Develop effective and innovative planning and design responses and processes that strategically respond to complex community issues;
- 3
Integrate knowledge and synthesise insights from diverse sources to develop meaningful, inclusive, equitable and sustainable planning approaches;
- 4
Effectively communicate planning and design ideas, demonstrating a high level of competence in written, visual, design, graphic and verbal communication skills;
- 5
Critically reflect on and practice ethical approaches to planning with diverse communities, recognising the importance of resilience, inclusivity and sustainability;
- 6
Adapt to evolving community challenges, seek new knowledge, and engage in continuous self-directed learning.
Workload and teaching
- Studio activities72 hours
- Teaching approachIndustry-based learning
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachField trips
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
24 hours per week including 6 contact hours plus 18 hours of independent study.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Carl Grodach
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Carl Grodach