DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, FACULTY SKOPJE, UNIVERSITY "SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY IN SKOPJE

Urban Planning I

Teaching staff

Subject teacher

Prof. dr. Jasmina Siljanoska

Curriculum/program of the course – Urban planning-1
Source 2.7.34
Course of study Architecture
Organizer The University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius university, Skopje, macedonia
Faculty, Skopje, macedonia
The institute for urban planning
Grade The first-cycle studies
Academic year / semester II the year. / 3 and 4. it is expected that
Number of ECTS 8 (4+4)
Teacher Prof. dr. Jasmina Siljanoska
Condition No
The objectives of the program To introduce students to the field of urban planning, the development of the perception of urban spaces and critical discourse; introduction to the урбоморфолошки properties, methods of analysis, and the basics of urban planning, the process of the transformation of a inner-city areas, and the spatial concepts of the creation to the present day.
Contents The winter semester: Introduction to urbanism; coexistence of historical and modern city; urban design vs planning; definition of urban space; cityscape and silhouette; public spaces; structure of built space; urbomorphological properties and morphogenesis.
The summer semester: Development and transformation of the city from pre-industrial to modern city; industrial city; theoretical concepts of the 20th century; post-war reconstruction and postmodern concepts.
Practical part: Winter semester – surveying, reconnaissance and analysis of city areas; Summer semester – introduction to urban design, analysis and redesign of city blocks.
Methods of teaching Theoretical part: verbal elaboration and illustration; Practical part: group and independent development through inductive, comparative and deductive methods; critical explication and comparative analysis of contemporary reference practices.
Number of hours 200 (100+100) hours of the
The distribution of the time 60+60+50+0+30 hours
Forms of action – Lectures: 60 hours (30+30)
– Exercise: 60 hours (30+30)
– Training assignments: 50 hours (25+25)
– Independent tasks: 0 hours
– The home learning: 30 hours (15+15)
Review Colloquium/exam: 30 points
Possible exercises: 60 points
The presence and activity: 10 points
Total: 100 points
The criteria for a score of the 50 b's. = 5 (F)
51-60 (b. = 6 (E)
61-70 b. = 7 (D)
71-80 b. = 8 (C)
81-90 b. = 9 (B)
91-100 b. = 10 (A)
The requirement for a signature 41 point (51, in the winter semester)
Language English
The monitoring of the quality of the Survey and it's a process of self-evaluation
References Required reading:
Notes from a lecture by prof. dr. Jasmina Сиљаноска, Читанка of the selected texts for this city

Further reading:
Cullen, G., 1990, Gradski pejzaž, Gradjevinska knjiga, Added;
Gidion, S., 2002, the Same, prostor i arhitektura, Gradjevinska knjiga, Added;
Kostoff, S., 1991, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History, Bulfinch Press;
Kostoff, S., 1992, The City Assembled: Elements of Urban Form through History, Little Brown, Boston;
Linč, K., 1974, Slika one grada, Gradjevinska knjiga, Added;
Milić, B., 1994-2002, Razvoj grada kroz stoljeća I-III, Zagreb;
Mumford, L., 1988, Grad u historiji, Naprijed, Zagreb;
Zite, K., 1967, Umetničko oblikovanje gradova, Gradjevinska knjiga, Added;
Christopher Alexander's, the Language of forms, Academic press, Geneva, 2010