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Urban Engineering & Public Realm course details

Professional Certificate in
Design & Management of the Public Realm

Topics Covered

  • How the quality of space is perceived and measured
  • What agencies are involved and how they operate
  • How different sorts of people use the public realm
  • Principles of movement and traffic management
  • Risk, liability and the avoidance of accidents
  • The design of quality pedestrian crossings and homezones
  • Concepts of small scale landscape design in public spaces
  • Working with the public through effective involvement
  • Legislation, regulation and responsibilities
  • Funding systems
  • Interrelationship of the various modes of transport, category of user and trip purpose
  • Role of the public realm in regeneration and designing out crime
  • Models and their limitations
  • Engineering principles for various aspects of the public realm
  • Design options and the decision making process


    Syllabus
    The course is divided into 14 sections grouped in to four main areas of study.

    Delivery: Understanding the delivery process 
    1. Powers to act  1.1 National and local government
    1.2 Acts policies regulations
    2. Funding sources  2.1 Funding systems
    2.2 Aftects of disparate powers and funds 
    Concepts: Understanding national & local policies and concepts
    3. Users & consultation  3.1 Human needs
    3.2 Policies to help people
    3.3 Reasons to seek public opinion
    4. Transport, safety & amenity 4.1 Need for traffic. 
    4.2 Traffic and safety
    4.3 Management of traffic
    4.4 Links and junctions
    4.5 Traffic generation. Flows and growth
    5. Quality & regeneration 5.1 Regeneration
    5.2 Quality of space. Human scale
    5.3 Importance of Image
    5.4 Streets for All 
    6. Landscape & streetscape 6.1 Urban space & landscape concepts. 
    6.2 Appropriate materials: geography and history
    6.3 Workmanship
    Techniques: Understanding basic implementation techniques
    7. Transport models  7.1 Traffic measurement and surveys
    7.2 Capacity and safety Junctions PICADY
    7.3 Roundabouts. ARCADY. 
    7.4 Mini roundabouts
    7.5 Signals. LINSIG
    7.6 Street furniture, traffic signs, name plates 
    8. Designing for multi users 8.1 Movement. Mixed use streets
    8.2 Traffic signs regulations. 
    8.3 Home Zone regulations20mph zones
    8.4 Crossings & multi user. Regulations
    8.5 20 mph zones
    9. Traffic calming, parking  9.1 Natural traffic calming
    9.2 Parking techniques
    10. Footway & highway construction 10.1 Footway & highway design. 
    10.2 Footway. Maintenance
    10.3 Lighting & cameras
    10.4 Local materials. Techniques
    10.5 Cycists
    11. Quality and practical design 11.1 Case study, pedestrian crossing
    11.2 Urban space. Landscape techniques
    11.3 Traffic measures in rural context
    11.4 Traffic measures in urban context
    Decision making: Understanding design and decision making
    12. Seeking public opinion  12.1 Decision making process.
    Design demonstration
    12.2 Consultation techniques
    13. Surveys, analysis, sketch designs 13.1 Survey, analysis, sketch designs
    13.2 Analysis techniques
    14. Evaluation. A balanced view  14.1 Risk and forming balance judgements
    Streets for All
    Manual for Streets
    Local Transport Note 1/08
    Traffic Management and Streetscape

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