Urban Planning and Safety (BYS110)
The course provides an introduction to the interplay between urban planning and risk, safety and community development.
Course description for study year 2024-2025. Please note that changes may occur.
Course code
BYS110
Version
1
Credits (ECTS)
10
Semester tution start
Autumn
Number of semesters
1
Exam semester
Autumn
Language of instruction
English, Norwegian
Content
The course provides an introduction to the interplay between urban planning and risk, safety and community development.
Students are introduced to introductory practical and theoretical issues that link safety and security with well-being in urban spaces; and how this is anchored through plans at different levels in public administration. This may include literature studies and classroom and group discussions to design urban planning solutions that best address the various threats. Such solutions may include, for example, surveillance technologies, site-specific crime prevention strategies, and the prevention of adverse events using environmental design (CPTED).
Key concepts are urban planning, vulnerability, risk, technology.
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
After completing the course, students are expected to have knowledge of and understand:
How cities and regions have been affected by the security aspect.
How planning can improve urban security without reducing citizens' freedom
Skills:
After completing the course, students are expected to be able to:
Be able to critically analyze the relationships between urban planning and risk.
Explain different ways of analyzing.
Explain how technology affects, exacerbates and helps goal achievement.
Understand and discuss key challenges and dilemmas in the authority's organization and follow-up of social security and various risk challenges in relation to the design of cities.
General competence:
After completing the course, students are expected to have:
General insight into how today's cities are affected by social security work.
Required prerequisite knowledge
Exam
Form of assessment | Weight | Duration | Marks | Aid |
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Semester assignment | 1/1 | 1 Semesters | Letter grades | None permitted |
The semester assignment is submitted individually. No resit-eksam option is offered on the essay. Students who do not pass the essaycan take it again the next time the subject has regular teaching.