Liveable Cities

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, which may be as a team member or leader. 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION
• Apply their skills in problem solving, communication, information retrieval, working with others, and the effective use of general IT facilities 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION
• Monitor and adjust a personal programme of work on an on-going basis 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION
• Plan self-learning and improve performance, as the foundation for lifelong learning 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Knowledge and understanding of mathematical and statistical methods necessary to underpin their education in their engineering discipline ASSESSED THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS / VISUALISATION METHODS FOR CITY VISION.
• Ability to apply and integrate knowledge and understanding of other engineering disciplines to support study of their own engineering discipline. ASSESSED THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS / VISUALISATION METHODS FOR CITY VISION.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate their work to technical and non-technical audiences. 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION
• Ability to apply quantitative and computational methods in order to solve engineering problems and to implement appropriate action ASSESSED THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS / VISUALISATION METHODS TO DEVELOP A CITY VISION.
• Understand and evaluate business, customer and user needs, including considerations such as the wider engineering context, public perception and aesthetics 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION
• Understanding of, and the ability to work in, different roles within an engineering team. GROUP WORK - DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION
• Understanding of engineering principles and the ability to apply them to analyse key engineering processes ASSESSED THROUGH DATA ANALYSIS / VISUALISATION METHODS FOR CITY VISION.

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understanding of the requirement for engineering activities to promote sustainable development and ability to apply quantitative techniques where appropriate DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION
• Ability to work with technical uncertainty DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION
• Knowledge and understanding of the commercial, economic and social context of engineering processes 10 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CITY ASSESSMENT and DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY VISION – REPORT AND PRESENTATION

Southampton will be used as the case study city for the module. The module will expose students to the power of large datasets (crime, AQ, census, traffic, index multiple deprivation, greenspace, noise, temperature, flooding, insurance …) and how these can be used to shape high level intervention principles to address the challenges of a city.

The module will run as a series of lectures outlining the broad principles of liveability in a city supported by specific lectures on engineering specifics (waste, transport, energy, air quality, building development / construction) and their supporting datasets. Through discussion of these aspects in a Southampton context, students will be able to develop a city vision (car free, 24h city, sharing city, diversity inclusive, friendly city etc) for the case study city. Data visualisation packages may include Tableau and use of Python.

The module will cover the following aspects:

Globalisation and rapid change, the city challenge (1 lecture)

City metabolism: understanding the city of today (1 lecture)

7 principles of Urban Design, CABE (1 lecture)

Future city visions (Bladerunner, Masdar, Dongtan, Chandigarh, Broadacre, Metropolis, Smart City) (1 lecture)

Data visualisation as a process (1 lecture)

Waste and water (1 lecture)

Climate Change and the City (1 lecture)

Energy and the City (2 lectures)

Movement in the City (1 lecture)

Presenting your Work (1 lecture)

City Disruptors (1 lecture)

Teaching activities:

lectures (12), walkaround site visits of case study site (1 x 3h)

Seminars (3 x 3h)

S1: City Disruptors, City Change, Regeneration and Visions

S2: City Movement

S3: Silverhill, presenting a vision

Workshops (4 x 4h Design Studio sessions for groupwork tasks)

Learning activities:

Report writing skills through individual assessment of city strengths / weaknesses

Group work through generation of City Vision report and presentation to an expert panel.

Design Studio sessions with Liveable Cities and Data Analytics / visualisation staff.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.