Architecture and Culture Research Topics and Methods

• • Finding a Topic
  • Core challenges for Urban Design
  • An Introduction to Cities
  • Developing a Topic
  • Core Qualities of Urban Design
  • The Grid
  • An Introduction to Transit Oriented Design (TOD)
  • Dispersed City
  • Activity and Transport Corridors
  • City as a Museum
  • Architecture in TOD
  • Collage City
  • Placemaking
  • Polarized City
  • The City and Climate
  • CyberCities
  • Presentations
  • Urbanscaping - Making Urban Places and Public Life in the City
  • Regent Park
  • Review

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-MAA400 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

• Equipment requirements - Audio video equipment required
• Other requirements - Access to the Internet

This subject was previously known as Architectural Culture Research Topics 1.

Students use critical and analytical skills to develop an advanced understanding of themes, concepts and research methods relating to the theoretical, historical, social and cultural aspects of architecture and urban environments. Students will be expected to select from a range of research topics not previously studied and identify appropriate research methods and methodologies to theoretically underpin their research and inform their ways of thinking. Students will be expected to demonstrate architectural and English language proficiency. A fieldwork component is dependent on the focus of the research.

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• Abstract and objectives (20%)
• Oral presentation of Data (30%)
• Scholarly Research Essay (50%)

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